IMRef_2220: Name of Melcha
- Attestation
- ⲙⲉⲗⲭⲁ
- Translation
- Melcha
- Description
- perhaps Blemmyan/Beja female name meaning 'leading'; attested only once in Nubia, for a woman
- Text
- 264
- Provenance
- Sakinya
- Date
- 700–999
- Language
- Coptic
- Linguistic context
- Coptic
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 4–5
- Latest edition
-
I. Mina 183
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.43: Name: foreign (Blemmyan/Beja?), non-religious
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
-
For IMVar 1.43:
- ethnic regional: Blemmyan/Beja? - Person
- 602294: Melcha
- Role
- commemorated deceased
- Name
- 201565: Melcha
- Name variant
- 301565: ⲙⲉⲗⲭⲁ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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