house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
Excavation no.
NI 74.1.30.6(30)
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
letter from Adama, eparch and ikshil, to Douddil, architriklinios
Date
1155–1200
Notes
address in Greek
Material
parchment
Object dimensions
H: 16.0; W: 7.2
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
black
Lines
i: 8; ii: 1
Height of letters
Description
roughly rectangular sheet of parchment; text on side ii (address) written upside down in respect to the main text; originally folded horizontally along four lines
Decorative elements
State of preservation
complete but for a few minor lacunae in central part
Date
1155–1200
Chronological systems
Dating formulae
Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts
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Offices & titles
eparch (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): ii, l. 1 ikshil (ⲉⲕ̄ϣⲓ): ii, l. 1 architriklinios (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲧⲣⲓ⸌ⲕ⸍): ii, l. 1
Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Plumley 1978, p. 241; Browne 1996d, p. 131; Adams 1996, pp. 226–227 (translation); Hendricx 2011, pp. 44–46; Wojciechowski 2011, passim (on prosopography of Archive 3); Ruffini 2012a, passim, esp. pp. 14–19, 265–270 (generally on Archive 3); Ferrandino – van Gerven Oei 2020, p. 297 (analysis of ll. 6–7)