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Tomb. St. Petersburg, Hermitage 2956

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number	Tomb. St. Petersburg, Hermitage 2956
Publication Number	SB Kopt. 3 1597
Publication Permission Status	(unknown)
Publication Status	published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site	Abydos (Ꜣbḏ.w אבוט) [Trismegistos] Certainty: medium
Ancient Provenance District	Upper Egypt, 8th nome (Thinites) [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery	purchase Certainty:
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt	Upper Egypt, 8th nome (Thinites) [Trismegistos]

Object

Object Type	tombstone
Dating of Object	8th century
Dating	between 700 and 800
Range of Preservation	complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object	one-sided
Inks and Pigments	engraved
Range of Preservation (Text)	complete
State of Preservation (Text)	Twelve lines of text well preserved.
Script, Primary	Coptic
Language, Primary	Coptic
Comments on Handwriting	Uncials.
	recto	verso
Quantity of Lines	12
Quantity of Columns	1

Text Content

Text Types	documentary documentary \| tombstone
Summary of Content	Tombstone of Patermouthes, priest and monk, possibly from Abydos. Earlier it was presumed to be from Aswan.
Location of Composition	Abydos Upper Egypt, 8th nome Egypt (Certainty: medium)
Multilingualism	Monolingual Script = Language
Gender	Man
Religion	Christianity

Text

Transcription

Translation

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side 1

1	ϯ ⲭⲁⲣⲓⲥ ⲑⲉⲟⲩ ⲓⲥ ⲭⲥ
2	ⲡⲉϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲙ︦ⲡⲣ︦ⲡⲙⲉⲉ
3	ⲩⲉ ⲙⲡⲉⲛⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ
4	ⲛⲉⲓⲱⲧ ⲙ︦ⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲏⲧⲉⲣ,ⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ
5	ⲁⲩⲱ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ
6	ⲡⲁⲧⲉⲣⲙⲟⲩⲑⲏⲥ ⲙⲉ
7	ⲭⲓⲣ ⲏⲙⲉⲣⲁⲥ ⲋ ⲉⲛ
8	ⲧⲉⲕⲧⲓⲁⲛⲟⲥ ⲧⲉⲧⲁⲣⲧⲏⲥ
9	ⲟⲩ ⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲁⲃⲃⲁ ⲙ
10	ⲱⲏⲥⲁⲓ ⲁⲛⲁⲭⲱ
11	ⲣⲓⲧⲏⲥ ϯ ϯ
12	ⲓⲥ ⲭⲥ

side 1

1	Grace of God, Jesus Christ
2	The day of the commemoration
3	of our blessed
4	father the priest
5	and monk
6	Patermouthes,
7	Mechir 6,
8	fourth indiction,
9	of (?) Saint Abba
10	Mosai (Moses?), hermit
11
12	Jesus Christ.

Places (read out from edition)

People mentioned in Text

ID	gender	en normiert	original	Language	Functions	in Texts
18430	man	Patermouthes priest and monk, son of Serenos?	ⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲏⲧⲉⲣ ⲁⲩⲱ ⲡⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟⲥ ⲡⲁⲧⲉⲣⲙⲟⲩⲑⲏⲥ	Coptic

Literature

Elanskaya, A.J., Quelques stèles coptes des Musées de Leningrad et de Moscou (1975). (Nr.1 (215ff, 216f))
Hasitzka, Monika, Koptisches Sammelbuch III (2006). (1597)

DatasetID	310403
last Change	29.07.2022
Trismegistos	110993
Author	Andrea Hasznos
Dataset License	Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation	Data set 310403 (= Tomb. St. Petersburg, Hermitage 2956), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Andrea Hasznos.