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Tomb. Cairo EM X

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Metadata

Collection

Collection Cairo, Egyptian Museum
Inventory Number Tomb. Cairo EM X
Publication Number SB Kopt. 1 545
Current Location (unknown)
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:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Clédat, Jean
Certainty:
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

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object one-sided
Inks and Pigments engraved
Range of Preservation (Text) incomplete
State of Preservation (Text) Nine fragmentary, damaged lines of text.
Script, Primary Coptic
Language, Primary Coptic
Comments on Handwriting Uncials.
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 9
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Text Types
  • documentary
  • documentary | tombstone
Summary of Content Tombstone of Mark (the monk?) from the Anba hadra (St. Simeon) monastery in Aswan. Payni and indiction remain from the date.
Location of Composition Aswan / Syene Upper Egypt, 1st nome Egypt (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Monolingual Script = Language
Gender Man
Religion Christianity

 

Text

Transcription Translation Pictures
side 1
1ϯ ⲓⲥ ⲭⲥ ϯ
2ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ
3ⲙ̄ⲡⲣ︦ⲡⲙⲉⲉⲩⲉ ⲙ︦ⲡ
4ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲛ︦ⲥⲟⲛ
5ⲙⲁⲣⲕⲟⲥ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ
6ⲛⲧⲁϥⲙⲧⲟⲛ ⲙ︦ⲙⲟϥ
7ⲛϩⲏⲧϥ ⲉⲅⲣⲁⲫⲏ ⲙⲏ
8ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲓ
9ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲧ
side 1
1Jesus Christ
2The day
3of the commemoration of the
4blessed brother
5Markos the monk
6on which he died.
7Written (month)
8Payni (...)
9indiction (...)
     
Places (read out from edition)

 

People mentioned in Text

ID gender en normiert original Language Functions in Texts
18270 man Markos the monk D ⲙⲁⲣⲕⲟ[ⲥ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲟⲭⲟⲥ] Coptic

 

Literature

 

DatasetID 309822
last Change 29.07.2022
Trismegistos 101612
Author Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 309822 (= Tomb. Cairo EM X), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.