IMRef_2059: Name of Christophoria

Attestation
ⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲫⲟⲣⲓⲁ
Translation
Christophoria
Description
Greek female name meaning 'bearing Christ', deriving from St Christophoros; attested twice in Nubia, for 2 women
Text
460
Provenance
Arminna
Date
600–899
Language
Greek
Linguistic context
Greek
Side/page
 
Column
 
Line
4
Latest edition
I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 37
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Comment
The gender of the deceased is doubtless, althought the redactor of the stela used masculine pronoun in the latter part of the stela (ⲧⲏⲛ ⲯⲩⲭⲏⲛ ⲁⲩⲧⲟⲩ).
Identity marker
IM 1: Name
Identity marker variant
IMVar 1.56: Name: foreign (Greek), female, Christian
Second identity marker variant
 
Identities revealed
For IMVar 1.56:
- gender: female
- religion: Christian
Person
243307: Christophoria
Role
commemorated deceased
Name
12926: Christophoria
Name variant
55665: ⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲫⲟⲣⲓⲁ
Second name
 
Second name variant
 
Source
 
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