IMRef_199: Name of Tamsi
- Attestation
- ⲧⲁⲙⲥⲓ
- Translation
- Tamsi
- Description
- Nubian name, perhaps cognate with the Nobiin ⲧⲁⲙ-, 'to speak (in sleep); wish; guess'; attested 6 times for 5 persons (2 men, 3 unmarked for gender)
- Text
- 1030
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Date
- 1100–1199
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Linguistic context
- Greek
- Side/page
- 2
- Column
- Line
- 1
- Latest edition
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P. QI 3 46, pl. 5 (photo at http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/images/PQI3-61-46-43.jpg)
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- P. QI 3 45 edits the title of of Tamsi as ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍ ⲕ⸌ⲁ⸍ⲧ⸌ⲱ⸍, ‘eparch of Lower Nobadia’, but the final ⲧ⸌ⲱ⸍ definitely stands for the Greek article τῷ, as in other addresses of Old Nubian letters from Qasr Ibrim; the meaning of ⲕ⸌ⲁ⸍ is unknown.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.147: Name: local (Nubian), non-religious
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.147:
- ethnic regional: Nubian - Person
- 600169: Tamsi
- Role
- sender of letter
- Name
- 202165: Tamsi
- Name variant
- 302165: ⲧⲁⲙⲥⲓ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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