IMRef_2757: Name of Masi
- Attestation
- ⲙⲁⲥⲓ
- Translation
- Masi / Masi
- Description
- Nubian name meaning 'doer of good'; attested 19 times, only for men
- Text
- 594
- Provenance
- Kulubnarti
- Date
- probably 1150–1199
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Linguistic context
- Old Nubian
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 7
- Latest edition
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Browne 2000d, pp. 177–83, pl. on p. 184
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Browne translates the phrase ⲙⲁⲥⲓ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ⸌ⲛ⸍ⲗⲟ as two separate names, 'Masi, Ouroun( )', and considers ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ⸌ⲛ⸍ as an abbreviation of, e.g., Ourounkouda. However, given the absence of the marker -ⲗⲟ after ⲙⲁⲥⲓ, it seems probable that only one person is at stake here. If so, ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ⸌ⲛ⸍ must represent Masi's second name, nickname, title, or office. Perhaps ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲛ is an orthographic variant ⲟⲩⲣⲁⲛ, 'chief', in which the shifted nu does not mark the abbreviation but was simply forgotten and added later by the scribe. Note that chiefs are frequent as witnesses in documents from Qasr Ibrim.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.145: Name: local (Nubian), male (?), non-religious
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.145:
- gender: male?
- ethnic regional: Nubian - Person
- 602853: Masi
- Role
- witness
- Name
- 201515: Masi
- Name variant
- 301520: ⲙⲁⲥⲓ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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