IMRef_5237: Function of Tapara
- Attestation
- ⲟⲩⲧⲁⲫⲗ̄
- Translation
- ouataphi
- Description
- unidentified function, rather ecclesiastic than civil, because occurring with other ecclesiastical functions (priest, epideacon); the word is not Nubian, but perhaps Arabic, but no reasonable etymology can be proposed (cf. I. Banganarti 2, comm. to no. 347)
- Text
- 2809
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Date
- probably 1000–1199
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Linguistic context
- Old Nubian
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 3
- Latest edition
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P. QI 4 76, fig. 18
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Identity marker
- IM 2: Function
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 2.34: Function: ecclesiastic (?), unidentified
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 2.34:
- religion: Christian?
- social function: ecclesiastic? - Person
- 601929: Tapara
- Role
- Name
- Name variant
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
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