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Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68383

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Metadata

Collection

Collection	Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number	Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68383
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 1 645
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	Only upper part of the tombstone remains.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	incomplete
State of Preservation (Text)	First five lines of the text remain, but fragmentarily. Fragmentary tombstone, lower part broken off.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Large, regular engraved uncials.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	5+x
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Fragmentary tombstone of a monk (?) (brother?) from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Name and date are missing. The name might end in [...]argios (line 5).
Location of Composition	Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: )
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity

Text

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Translation

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side 1

1	ⲓ̈ⲥ︦ ϯ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
3	ⲙ︦ⲡⲣⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ
4	ⲙ︦ⲡⲉⲛⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
5	ⲛⲥⲟⲛ ... ⲁⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ

side 1

1	(Jesus) Christ
2	(The d)ay
3	(of the) commemoration
4	(of our) blessed
5	(brother ...)argios ¹An unknown number of lines is missing.

¹ An unknown number of lines is missing.

Places (read out from edition)

Literature

Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 147)

DatasetID	309783
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	101712
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 309783 (= Tomb. Cairo EM JdE 68383), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.