IMRef_2141: Name of Appasi
- Attestation
- ⲁⲡⲡⲁⲥⲓⲗⲟ
- Translation
- 'Abbās / Abbas / Appasi
- Description
- Arabic male name meaning 'austere'; attested twice in Nubia, once for a man, once unmarked for gender
- Text
- 1043
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Date
- 1100–1199
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Linguistic context
- Old Nubian
- Side/page
- 2
- Column
- Line
- 4
- Latest edition
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P. QI 3 59 (photo at http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/images/PQI3-32-53-59.jpg)
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Gender not specified.
Reading of the name corrected in NOM 4, no. 13a.
Alternatively, this could be a variant of the Nubian name Papasi (NAM 201822) with the metathesis of the first two letters.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.31: Name: foreign (Arabic), male, non-religious character
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.31:
- gender: male - Person
- 602208: Appasi
- Role
- witness (?)
- Name
- 20959: 'Abbās
- Name variant
- 300555: ⲁⲡⲡⲁⲥⲓ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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