Text 1040

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
Excavation no.
NI 74.1.30.6(20)
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
letter from Tapara, great priest, to Iongoka
Date
1100–1199
Notes
the same hand as DBMNT 1039
address in Greek
Material
parchment
Object dimensions
H: 18.0; W: 4.0
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
black
Lines
i: 5; ii: 6
Height of letters
 
Description
roughly rectangular sheet of parchment; originally folded along 1 horizontal and 1 vertical line
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete; broken along lines of folding; ink obliterated on side ii
Date
1100–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): i, l. 3
great priest (⳦ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍): ii, l. 6
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
P. QI III, pl. 6
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
P. QI 3 56, pl. 6
Other editions
 
Other publications
Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Adams 1996, p. 230 (translation); Browne 1998c, p. 24; Wojciechowski 2011, passim (on prosopography of Archive 3); Ruffini 2012a, passim, esp. pp. 14–19, 265–70 (generally on Archive 3); Nubian Berichtigungsliste (http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/index.php/Nubian_Berichtigungsliste)
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