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IMRef_1025
IM Reference no.
IMRef_1025: Name of Aia
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Attestation
ⲁⲓ̈ⲁ
Translation
Ḥayya / Hayya / Aia
Description
Arabic female name meaning 'life'; attested once in Nubia, for a woman
Text
1296
Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Date
1000–1199
Language
Greek
Linguistic context
Greek
Side/page
Column
Line
14
Latest edition
unpublished; partial translation in Adams 2010, pp. 210–17, pl. 44a–b
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Comment
Identity marker
IM 1: Name
Identity marker variant
IMVar 1.23: Name: foreign (Arabic), female, non-religious
Second identity marker variant
Identities revealed
For IMVar 1.23:
- gender: female
Person
601036: Aia
Role
author
Name
202986: Ḥayya
Name variant
300463: ⲁⲓⲁ
Second name
Second name variant
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