The Coffin of Tamin from the Collection of the Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University

The authors present a new publication of Tamin’s coffin from the collection of the Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University. The article provides a detailed discussion of the coffin’s provenance. Based on the translation and analysis of the inscriptions on Tamin’s coffin and on the comparison of these inscriptions with similar texts on other coffins, the authors suggest an origin from Akhmim for it. The distinctive stylistic and paleographic features of the inscription, the language and errors encountered in the text, the titles and epithets further allow us to date the coffin to the Ptolemaic period. Comparison of Tamin’s coffin with other similar objects, namely, with Tasheretmin’s and Hentykhetyemhotep’s coffins, as well as with a whole group of other stone sacrophagi, allows us to determine the possible date of the Moscow object more precisely: the end of the third – first half of the second centuries BC.

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Авторы статьи представляют новую публикацию саркофага Тамин из коллекции НИИ и Музея антропологии МГУ имени М.В. Ломоносова. В статье подробна описана история поступления саркофага в собрание Музея. На основании перевода и анализа надписей на саркофаге Тамин, а также сопоставления этих надписей с аналогичными текстами на других саркофагах авторы высказывают предположение об ахмимском происхождении памятника. Характерные стилистические и палеографические особенности надписи, язык, встречающиеся в ней ошибки, титулы и эпитеты позволяют также говорить о ее датировке эпохой Птолемеев. Сопоставление саркофага Тамин с другими аналогичными памятниками, в частности с саркофагами Ташеретмин и Хентихетиемхетепа, а также с целой группой других каменных саркофагов, позволяет точнее определить вероятную датировку московского памятника концом III – первой половиной II в. до н.э.

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Ptolemaic period, Akhmim, coffins, offering list, Tamin

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Птолемеевский период, Ахмим, саркофаги, жертвенная формула, Тамин

Acknowledgment

This article is a translation of: Крол А.А., Толмачева Е.Г. Саркофаг Тамин из собрания НИИ и Музея антропологии МГУ имени М. В. Ломоносова. Journal of Ancient History [Vestnik drevney istorii] 81/2 (2021), 463–490. DOI: 10.31857/S032103910012209-2

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GOST	Krol A., Tolmacheva E. The Coffin of Tamin from the Collection of the Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University // Vestnik drevnei istorii – 2021. – V. 81. – Issue 2 C. 720-744 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/vdi/s032103910015609-2-1-en (circulation date: 27.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S032103910015609-2
MLA	Krol, Alexei, Tolmacheva, Elena "The Coffin of Tamin from the Collection of the Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University." Vestnik drevnei istorii 81.2 (2021):720-744. DOI: 10.31857/S032103910015609-2
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