IMRef_3678: Name of Koussan
- Attestation
- ⲕⲟⲩⲥⲥⲁⲛ
- Translation
- Koussan
- Description
- Nubian name perhaps deriving from ⲕⲟⲩⲥ-, 'to loosen', or Arabic name Ġassān; attested 5 times, once for a man, the other ones unmarked for gender
- Text
- 2835
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Date
- 1000–1399
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Linguistic context
- Old Nubian
- Side/page
- 2
- Column
- Line
- 1
- Latest edition
-
P. QI 4 93, figs. 35–6
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Gender not specified.
Reading and interpretation of the name corrected in NOM 4, no, 34b.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.152: Name: local (Nubian) or foreign (Arabic)
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.152:
- ethnic regional: Nubian or Arabic - Person
- 603705: Koussan
- Role
- sender of letter (?)
- Name
- 201345: Koussan
- Name variant
- 301345: ⲕⲟⲩⲥⲥⲁⲛ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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