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Tomb. Cairo EM Assouan 79 [a?]

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo EM Assouan 79 [a?]
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 661
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty: high
Finder (= First Purchaser) Monneret de Villard, M.U.
Certainty: high
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type tombstone
Dating between 700 and 1000
Range of Preservation incomplete
State of Preservation Fragment of a tombstone broken vertically. Only the end of lines remain.
Comments on Object Possibly belongs together and formed one stela with object Assouan 79 [b?] which has the Coptic Museum Inv.Nr. 10930.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) The beginning of lines is lost, only the ends are preserved because the tombstone is vertically fragmented. Even the remaining text is damaged, hardly readable.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Large and regular uncials.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 8
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Fragmentary. Name and date are lost.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1ϯ ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
2ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ︦ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
3ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
4ⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5ⲁ ⲉ
6 \\ ⲕⲉ
7
8
side 1
1(The da)y
2(of the comm)emoration
3(of the bl)essed
4(...)rios
5(...)
6(...) 25
7(...)
8(...)
     
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Literature

 

DatasetID 309781
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101728
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309781 (= Tomb. Cairo EM Assouan 79 [a?]), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.