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Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11878

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11878
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 628
Current Location magazine
Publication Permission Status (unknown)
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Aswan / Syene (Swn; Συήνη, סונ, ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲁⲛ) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: medium
Ancient Provenance District Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos]
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 Fragmentary, edges and lower part missing.

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Fragmentary, last few lines missing.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Very regular incised uncials.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 6+x
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of Joseph the monk. Possibly from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. The date is missing.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1ⲑⲉ ϯ ⲩ
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ
3ⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙ︦ⲡⲉ
4ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣ,ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲥ
5ⲟⲛ ⲓ̈ⲱⲥⲏⲫ
6ⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ
7
side 1
1(Jesus Christ) Son of God
2The day of the
3commemoration of our
4blessed
5(brother) Joseph
6(the) monk (...)
7(...)
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
16775 man Joseph the monk ⲓⲱⲥⲏⲫ [ⲡ]ⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309808
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101695
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309808 (= Tomb. Alexandria, Graeco-Roman Museum 11878), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.