Text 697

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TrismegistosTM text 140323

Provenance: Abd el-Qadir
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: site 5-0-15
Excavation no.: 5-0-15/6
Present location: British Museum, London
Museum no.: EA79658

Medium: ostrakon
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: economic
Language: Greek
Content: bill of lading for shipments of barley
Date: 700–899
Notes

Material: ceramic
Object dimensions: H: 11.5; W: 14.0
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 3
Height of letters

Description: written on convex side
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete, but highly obliterated

Date: 700–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar
indiction

Dating formulae: ⲙ̣⸌ⲏ̣⸍ ⲑ̣ⲱ̣ⲑ̣ ⲇ̣̄ ⲓⲛⲇⲓⲕⲛ
Transcription: "in the month of Thoth, in the 4th indiction" (l. 2)
Months: ⲑ̣ⲱ̣ⲑ̣
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: notary (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 3

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA79658
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Ruffini 2010, p. 233 (no. 4), photo at <https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA79658>
Other editions

Other publications: Adams 2005, pp. 45, 182–4; CSCN, pp. 111–14

Text 698

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TrismegistosTM text 140324

Provenance: Abd el-Qadir
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: site 5-0-15
Excavation no.: 5-0-15/10
Present location: British Museum, London
Museum no.: EA79662

Medium: ostrakon
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: economic
Language: Greek
Content: bill of lading for shipments of barley
Date: 700–899
Notes

Material: ceramic
Object dimensions: H: 8.0; W: 5.0
Text dimensions
Object colour: red
Text colour: black
Lines: 5
Height of letters

Description: written on convex side
Decorative elements
State of preservation: right-hand part lacking

Date: 700–899
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: ⲡ ⲡⲁⲭ[---]
Transcription: "from (the month of) Pachon [ ]" (l. 3)
Months: ⲡⲁⲭ[ⲱⲛ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: notary ([ⲛⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍]): l. 5
sailor ([ⲛⲁⲩ⸌ⲧ⸍]): l. 2

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: © The Trustees of the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA79662
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Ruffini 2010, pp. 233–4 (no. 5), photo at <https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA79662>
Other editions

Other publications: Adams 2005, pp. 45, 182–4

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TrismegistosTM text 141729

Provenance: Faras
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cathedral, east part of north aisle, east wall; accompanying painting no. 18A (King Mouses Georgios)
Excavation no.: inv. no. 18A (painting); neg. nos. Fa.63/4.1367, Fa.63/4.1374, Fa.63/4.1382, Fa.63/4.1392
Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum
Museum no.: SNM 24365

Medium: wall
Technique: painted (dipinto)
Type of text: commemorative inscription
Language: Greek/Old Nubian
Content: inscription of King Mouses Georgios
Date: 1155–before 1198
Notes

Material: plaster
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
Text colour: black
Lines: 5
Height of letters

Description: five lines of inscriptio painted in black ink to the right of King Mouses Georgios’s head
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete, but for a few illegible places

Date: 1155–before 1198
Chronological systems: king's occurrence

Dating formulae: ⲃ̄︤ⲁ︦ⲥ︥ ⲙⲱⲩ̇ⲥⲏⲥ ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲩ ⲃ︤ⲁ︦ⲥ︦ⲓ ⲩ̄︤ⲩ︥̄ ⲕⲟⲩ⸌ⲇ⸍ⲁⲡⲥ̄ ⲋ ⲁ̇ⲣⲟⲩⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲋ ⲙⲁⲕⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍
Transcription: "King Moise Georgios, son of Koudapis, king of Arouades and Makuritai" (ll. 1–3)
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: king (ⲃ̄ⲁ̄ⲥ̄): l. 1; (ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲩ): l. 5
king of Aruades and Makurites (ⲃ︦ⲁ︦ⲥ︦ⲓ︦ ... ⲋ ⲁ̇ⲣⲟⲩⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲋ ⲙⲁⲕⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 2
builder of Ami (ⲁⲙⲛ̄ ⲟⲓⲕⲟⲇⲟⲙⲓⲥ): l. 4

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Arouades (ⲁⲣⲟⲩⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): l. 3
Makurites (ⲙⲁⲕⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 3
Ami (ⲁⲙⲛ̄): ll. 3, 5
(Church of) Mary in Ami (ⲁⲙⲛ̄ ⲣⲛⲃ): l. 5

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Michałowski 1967, pl. 70
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Source: Jakobielski 1978, pl. XLIII.B
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Jakobielski et alii 2017, pp. 432–4, fig. on p. 432 (no. 142)
Other editions: Altheim – Stiehl 1971, pp. 487–508; Jakobielski 1978, pp. 147–51, pls. 11, 43b; Łajtar 2009b, pp. 89–97

Other publications: Michałowski 1964b, fig. 33; Michałowski 1967, pp. 38, 147–8, pls. 64, 70; Jakobielski 1969, p. 503, fig. 6; Plumley 1978, pp. 237–8; Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, pp. 47–8 (no. 7); CIEN 6, no. 68

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Provenance: Gebel Adda
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Museum no.

Medium: manuscript
Technique: painted
Type of text: document
Language: Old Nubian
Content: unidentified document; king Ioel appearing
Date: 1483
Notes: 'official Nubian protocol'

Material: leather
Object dimensions: not recorded
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Description
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Date: 1483
Chronological systems: Era of the Martyrs
king's occurrence

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Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: king of Dotawo (unpublished form): l. ?
bishop of Phrim (= Ibrim) (unpublished form): l. ?
priest (unpublished form): l. ?
joknashi (unpublished form): l. ?

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Dotawo (unpublished form): l. ?
Phrim (= Ibrim) (unpublished form): l. ?

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Millet 1967, p. 62
Other editions

Other publications: Munro-Hay 1982/3, p. 131; Łajtar 2011, p. 50; Łajtar 2014c, p. 951

Text 701

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TrismegistosTM text 141731

Provenance: Qasr Ibrim
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.: found in 1978
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: manuscript
Technique: painted
Type of text: document
Language: Coptic
Content: beginning of document; King Zacharias appearing
Date: 29 August 940–28 August 941
Notes: 'official Nubian protocol'

Material: leather
Object dimensions: not recorded
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Text colour
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Description
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Date: 29 August 940–28 August 941
Chronological systems: regnal years
Era of the Martyrs
Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae
Transcription: [(in the year) from Diocletian?] 657, in 26th (or 24th) year of King Zacharias (ll. ?)
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: king (unpublished form): l. ?
queen and ruler (unpublished form): l. ?
bishop of Pachoras (= Faras) (unpublished form): l. ?

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Pachoras (= Faras) (unpublished form): l. ?

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Hagen 2009, p. 117; Hagen 2010, p. 723
Other editions

Other publications: CSCN, pp. 210, 212

Text 702

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TrismegistosTM text 141733

Provenance: Dongola
Region: Makuria
Findspot: citadel, house SWN, under staircase
Excavation no.: ADd.01.150
Present location: Dongola, storeroom of the Polish mission
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Greek
Content: fragment of epitaph of archpriest
Date: 700–999
Notes

Material: marble
Object dimensions: H: 14; W: 16; Th: 6
Text dimensions
Object colour: grey-blueish
Text colour
Lines: 2
Height of letters: 1.2-1.7

Description: two fragments of plaque or stela
Decorative elements
State of preservation: fragmentarily preserved

Date: 700–999
Chronological systems: Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae: [ⲉⲛ ⲙⲏⲛ]ⲓ ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ [---]
Transcription: "in the month of Choiak [ ]" (ll. 1–2)
Months: ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: archpriest (ⲁⲣⲭⲓⲡ[---]): l. 1

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Łajtar 2011, fig. 18
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Latest edition: Łajtar 2011, pp. 85–7 (no. 20), fig. 18
Other editions

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TrismegistosTM text 141734

Provenance: Tafa
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: cemetery
Excavation no.
Present location: Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo
Museum no.: 12707

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Arabic
Content: epitaph of Ibrahīm
Date: 20 October 832
Notes

Material: sandstone
Object dimensions: H: 74; W: 21
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines: 16
Height of letters

Description: no photo available
Decorative elements
State of preservation: complete

Date: 20 October 832
Chronological systems: Era of the Saracens
Islamic calendar
day of the week

Dating formulae
Transcription: "on Monday, when nine (days) remained of the month of Ramaḍān (= 21 Ramaḍān) of (the year) two hundred seventeen" (ll. 6–9)
Months: Ramaḍān
Weakdays: Monday
Feasts

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Wiet 1941, p. 73 (no. 3314) (= TEI 20313)
Other editions

Other publications: Monneret de Villard 1938, p. 118; CSCN, p. 168

Text 704

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TrismegistosTM text 141735

Provenance: Kertassi
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: not recorded
Excavation no.
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Arabic
Content: unknown contents
Date: 22 December 933–10 December 934
Notes

Material: unidentified
Object dimensions: not recorded
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Description
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Date: 22 December 933–10 December 934
Chronological systems: Era of the Saracens

Dating formulae
Transcription: AH 322
Months
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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Monneret de Villard 1938, p. 118
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TrismegistosTM text 141736

Provenance: Gebel Adda
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: near tomb 2 in cemetery 3; secondary context
Excavation no.
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Arabic
Content: unknown contents
Date: 23 July 1012–12 July 1013
Notes

Material: unidentified
Object dimensions: not recorded
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Date: 23 July 1012–12 July 1013
Chronological systems: Era of the Saracens

Dating formulae
Transcription: AH 403
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Millet 1963, p. 156, n. 2; Millet 1964, p. 10 and n. 2 (with corrected date)
Other editions

Other publications: Leclant 1965, p. 205

Text 706

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TrismegistosTM text 141737

Provenance: Gebel Adda
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: reused in wall of Islamic house
Excavation no.
Present location: unknown
Museum no.

Medium: stela
Technique: incised
Type of text: epitaph
Language: Arabic
Content: unknown contents
Date: 23 July 1012–12 July 1013
Notes

Material: unidentified
Object dimensions: not recorded
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines
Height of letters

Description
Decorative elements
State of preservation

Date: 23 July 1012–12 July 1013
Chronological systems: Era of the Saracens

Dating formulae
Transcription: AH 403
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Source: Millet 1962, pl. VII, fig. 20
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Millet 1964, p. 10 and n. 2, pl. 7, fig. 20
Other editions

Other publications: Leclant 1965, p. 205

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TrismegistosTM text 141738

Provenance: Qasr Ibrim, Gebel Maktub
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: rocks on the hill east of Qasr Ibrim
Excavation no.: W15
Present location: Gebel Maktub, in situ (?)
Museum no.

Medium: rock
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: date
Language: unidentified
Content: date
Date: 29 August 925–29 August 925 --
Notes

Material: stone
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
Text colour
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Description
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Date: 29 August 925–29 August 925 --
Chronological systems: Era of Diocletian

Dating formulae
Transcription: "(in the year) from Diocletian 642" (l. ?)
Months
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Feasts

Offices & titles

Toponyms & ethnonyms

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Łajtar – van der Vliet 2013, p. 160
Other editions

Other publications

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Provenance: Qasr Ibrim, Gebel Maktub
Region: Nobadia
Findspot: rocks on the hill east of Qasr Ibrim
Excavation no.: W25
Present location: Gebel Maktub, in situ (?)
Museum no.

Medium: rock
Technique: incised (graffito)
Type of text: unidentified
Language: unidentified
Content: unknown contents
Date: 1 July 976
Notes

Material: stone
Object dimensions
Text dimensions: not recorded
Object colour
Text colour
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Description
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Date: 1 July 976
Chronological systems: Era of Diocletian
Egyptian calendar

Dating formulae
Transcription: "(in the month of) Epeiph, (day) 7, (in the year) from the Diocletian 692" (ll. 5–6)
Months: ⲉⲡⲓⲫⲏ
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Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Łajtar – van der Vliet 2013, p. 160
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