IMRef_1195: Name of Asan
- Attestation
- ⲁ̇ⲥⲁⲛ
- Translation
- Asan
- Description
- Nubianised variant of the male name of Arabic origin meaning 'beautiful, handsome', deriving from Ḥasan bin 'Alī, the grandson of the Prophet
- Text
- 2842
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Date
- 1125–1175
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Linguistic context
- Old Nubian
- Side/page
- 1
- Column
- Line
- 17
- Latest edition
-
P. QI 4 101, fig. 44
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Rreading and interpretation of the name corrected in NOM 4, no. 36a.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.28: Name: foreign (Arabic), male, Muslim
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
-
For IMVar 1.28:
- gender: male
- religion: Muslim - Person
- 601217: Asan
- Role
- mentioned in letter
- Name
- 14109: Ḥasan
- Name variant
- 300585: ⲁⲥⲁⲛ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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