IMRef_1574: Name of Makarios
- Attestation
- ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓ
- Translation
- Makarios / Makari
- Description
- Greek male name meaning 'blessed', perhaps deriving from St Makarios the Egyptian; attested 6 times in Nubia
- Text
- 583
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Date
- 30 July 1187
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Linguistic context
- Old Nubian
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 22
- Latest edition
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P. QI 3 35
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- On interpretation of the name, see Łajtar 2009b, pp. 101–102: Browne translated the phrase ⲁⲓ̈ ⲕⲁⲡⲉⲛⲏ ⳦ⲉ ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲛ̄ ⲁⲥⲧⲗ̄ⲗⲟ as follows: 'I, Kapene, daughter of the priest Makari'. If he is right, this would be the only instance of a female scribe in Makuria. Moreover, thy only other attestation of the name seems to belong to a man (Ref 701739). While Browne's interpretation cannot be totally excluded, given the relatively high status of women in Makuria, according to Łajtar, two other interpretations are more correct here: either 'I, Kapeni, priest, asti of Makari' (Makari being a toponym) or 'I, Kapeni, asti of priest Makari'.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.57: Name: foreign (Greek), male, Christian
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.57:
- gender: male
- religion: Christian - Person
- 601621: Makarios
- Role
- in filiation
- Name
- 10475: Makarios
- Name variant
- 54255: ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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