IMRef_1218: Name of Ionngoka
- Attestation
- [ⲉⲓ]ⲟⲛⳟⲟⲕⲁ
- Translation
- Ionngoka / Eionngoka
- Description
- Nubian name probably meaning 'the glory of mother'; attested 16 times, 9 of which for a single woman, the remaing ones unmarked for gender, but the meainng strongly suggesting female name
- Text
- 591
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Date
- probably 1155–circa 1180
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Linguistic context
- Old Nubian
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 18
- Latest edition
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P. QI 3 33, pl. 2 (photo at http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/images/PQI3-32-53-59.jpg)
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- It is uncertain whether ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥⲛ̄ designates here the proper name Papasi (thus Browne and Wojciechowski, who even assumes that Papasi is a woman) or the office 'bishop'. The latter meaning seems a little more proable here on the account of the occurrence of the same word in the previous entry, where we find, most proably, one Medjou, 'meske' of the bishop (REF 701229). If such an assumption is probable, Ionngoka would be another woman fathered by a bishop in Nubia; the other ones being Papsine a.k.a. Doulista (Refs 701308 & 702792) and Iesousiko (Ref 703138). Cf. Refs 701229 and 701186.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.134: Name: local (Nubian), female (?), non-religious
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.134:
- gender: female?
- ethnic regional: Nubian - Person
- 601243: Ionngoka
- Role
- witness
- Name
- 200870: Ionngoka
- Name variant
- 300870: ⲉⲓⲟⲛⳟⲟⲕⲁ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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