Tomb. London, BM EA 604
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Metadata
Collection
| Collection |
London, British Museum |
| Inventory Number |
Tomb. London, BM EA 604 |
| Publication Number |
SB Kopt. 1 503 |
| 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] |
| District of Find / Purchase in Egypt |
Upper Egypt, 1st nome (Ombites) [Trismegistos] |
| Type of Acquisition for the Intitution |
donation |
| Transferor (Seller, Previous Owner) |
Bowring, John
Certainty: |
Object
| Object Type |
tombstone |
| Dating of Object |
7th - 10th century |
| Dating |
between 600 and 1000 |
| Range of Preservation |
incomplete |
| State of Preservation |
Larger pieces are missing from the surface on left and right. |
| Comments on Object |
Measures: case. Rectangular sandstone funerary stela of the monk Georgios. |
Text Basic Information
| Localization of Text on Object |
(not applicable) |
| Text-Localization, Addendum |
stela with inscription on one side |
| State of Preservation (Text) |
2-3 letters are lost in every line, but text is easily reconstructible |
| Script, Primary |
Coptic |
| Language, Primary |
Coptic |
| Comments on Handwriting |
Neatly and thinly carved tall uncials, A and P are always very narrow. Superlinear stroke applied. |
| |
recto |
verso |
| Quantity of Lines |
8 |
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| Quantity of Columns |
1 |
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| Line Lenght (in mm) |
330 |
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| Column Height (in mm) |
410 |
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Text Content
| Text Types |
- documentary
- documentary | tombstone
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| Summary of Content |
Tombstone probably from the Anba Hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan, commemorating a deceased monk, Georgios. |
| Location of Composition |
Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: medium) |
| Multilingualism |
Script = Language
Monolingual |
| Gender |
Man |
| Religion |
Christianity |
Text
| Transcription |
Translation |
Pictures |
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1 | | ϯ ⲓ︦ⲥ︦ ⲭ︦ⲥ︦ |
2 | | ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ|
3 | | ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ︦ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ|
4 | | ⲙ︦ⲡⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ|
5 | | ⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲛ ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ|
6 | | ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ|
7 | | ⲑ︦ⲱ︦ⲑ︦ ⲓ̈ⲍ|
8 | | ⲓⲛⲇ,ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧⲓⲱⲛⲟⲥⲉ ϯ
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1 | | Jesus Christ.|
2 | | The day|
3 | | of commemorating|
4 | | the blessed|
5 | | brother Georgios|
6 | | the monk,|
7 | | 17th of Thoth|
8 | | 4th indiktion.
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| Places (read out from edition) |
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People mentioned in Text
| ID |
gender |
en normiert |
original |
Language |
Functions |
in Texts |
| 13945 |
man |
Georgios monk |
ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ |
Coptic |
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Literature
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Bierbrier, M. L., A history of the Collection of Coptic ostraca in the British Museum. (1994). (p. 66, pl.12b)
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British Museum, Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. (p. 192)
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Hall, H.R., Coptic and greek Texts of the Christian Period from Ostraca, Stelae, etc., in the British Museum (1905). (5, pl.6.2)
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Munier, Henri, Les steles coptes du Monastere de Saint-Simeon a Assouan, I-II (1930). (Nr. 6)
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Revillout, Eugène, Les prières pour les morts dans l'épigraphie égyptienne. (1885). (p. 12 - 13, no. 17)
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Tudor, Bianca, Christian funerary stelae of the Byzantine and Arab periods from Egypt. (2011). ()
| DatasetID |
309816 |
| last Change |
29.07.2022 |
| Trismegistos |
101570 |
| Author |
Andrea Hasznos |
| Dataset License |
Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA) |
| Data set citation |
Data set 309816 (= Tomb. London, BM EA 604), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos. |
