IMRef_2638: Name of Souai
- Attestation
- ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲉⲓ
- Translation
- Soua / Souaei
- Description
- probably Semitic name, but etymology unknown; attested only once, for a man
- Text
- 2149
- Provenance
- Kalabsha (probably)
- Date
- probably 700–999
- Language
- Greek
- Linguistic context
- Greek
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 6
- Latest edition
-
I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 42a
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Souai is described with the feminine epithet ⲏ ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲁ (ll. 5–6), but with the masculine pronoun ⲧⲟⲩⲧⲟ[ⲩ] (l. 7). This is indeed confusing, as the name appears to be otherwise attested as masculine.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.18: Name: foreign (?) (Semitic?), male (?), unknown character
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.18:
- gender: male? - Person
- 449563: Souai
- Role
- commemorated deceased
- Name
- 12216: Soua
- Name variant
- 55244: ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲉⲓ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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