Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin; now lost)
Museum no.
9682 (old no. ÄM 1489)
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
fragment of epitaph
Date
circa 800–899
Notes
pronoia type identification with the object in SMB not certain, as no illustration exists in the archive
Material
unidentified
Object dimensions
H: 9.5; W: 8.5
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines
3 (4 reconstructed)
Height of letters
not recorded
Description
Fragment of the left margin of a stela. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line. The text ruled with incised lines, forming apparently uneven registers.
Lower part of a plaque with complete lower margin and the lower parts of both side margins preserved. The SMB inventory includes the following description: ‘Bruchstück einer koptischen Inschrift. Untere Hälfte mit 7 Zeilen von denen die oberen 3 ganz abgerieben sind’. The drawing made by Lepsius, the only illustration of the piece at our disposal, shows only the four last lines, however.
Decorative elements
State of preservation
fragmentary; lower part with bottom and side margins preserved
Revillout 1885, n. 1 on p. 15; Leclercq 1920, col. 450; SB Kopt. 1 485
Other publications
Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 41; Erman 1899, p. 413 (description and German translation); Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255
(a): Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin (lost)
(b): Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin (previously Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin)
Museum no.
(a): ÄM 1495
(b): 9996 (old no. ÄM 1503)
Medium
stela
Technique
incised
Type of text
epitaph
Language
Coptic
Content
fragment of epitaph of unidentified man
Date
700–999
Notes
Junker (followed by SB Kopt. and other publications) read the first 3 signs of l. 1 ⲯⲓⲉ and proposed to interpret them as numeral designating a date according to the Era of Diocletian/Martyrs (AM 715 = AD 998/9); more probable, however, is to read ⲯⲓⲥ, that is Coptic numeral 'nine' (or 'nineteen' or 'twenty-nine')
Material
sandstone
Object dimensions
(a): not recorded (b): H: 29.5; W: 22.5; Th: c. 6 Estimated total dimensions: H: 32.5; W: 38
Text dimensions
Object colour
grey
Text colour
Lines
9
Height of letters
c. 2 (3.5 in l. 9)
Description
Two joining pieces forming the lower part of a rectangular slab, with complete bottom margin and the lowermost part of both side margins preserved. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving quite broad uninscribed margin (3 cm on the right, 4.5 cm at the bottom).
Decorative elements
State of preservation
incomplete; upper part completely destroyed; surface heavily damaged in the central part
Date
700–999
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
[---]ⲯⲓⲥ ⲙⲡⲉⲃⲟⲧ [---]
Transcription
"[on the] ninth (or nineteen or twenty nine) of the month of [---]" (l. 1)
Complete slab with a slightly rounded (or damaged?) upper edge. The epigraphic field framed by an incised line, leaving margins of various size on each side. The upper margin very broad, left uninscribed.
Decorative elements
State of preservation
complete; surface worn in the left-hand part causing some difficulties in reading; long vertical crack in the right-hand part of the stone affecting some letters in lines 1–7
Date
700–999
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
ⲙ̄ⲡ̣ⲉⲃ̣ⲟⲧ ⲫⲁⲙ̣ⲉ ̣ ̣ϩⲱⲧⲡ
Transcription
"in the month of Phamenoth" (ll. 6–7)
Months
ⲫⲁⲙ̣ⲉ ̣ ̣ϩⲱⲧⲡ
Weakdays
Feasts
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Offices & titles
brother (= monk) (ⲥⲟⲛ): l. 5 monk (ⲙⲟⲛⲁⲭⲟ̣ⲥ̣): l. 6
Lepsius 1849–59: 5 (text), p. 292; 6 (plates), 12, pl. 103, 49; Erman 1899, p. 413 (description and German translation); DACL 4/1, col. 452 (French translation); Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 255; Satzinger 2004, p. 539