Text 1041
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
- Excavation no.
- NI 74.1.30.6(15)
- Present location
- Coptic Museum, Cairo (?)
- Museum no.
- 117, 118, or 129 (?)
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: letter
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- letter from Aron, bishop of Pachoras, to Isou, bishop of Sai
- Date
- 1170–1199
- Notes
- address in Greek
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- H: 16.5; W: 12.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- i: 11; ii: 7
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular sheet of paper; address on side ii written by 2nd hand upside down in respect to the main text; letters written in excellent style
- Decorative elements
- on left margin, opposite line 1 (side i), monogram written on a cross (ⲏⲍⲥ and below ⲍ stands ⲱ) probably standing for 'Iesous zoe')
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 1170–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- abba (ⲁⲃ⸌ⲃ⸍ⲁ): ii, l. 6; (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): ii, l. 7
orthodox bishop of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲟⲣ⸌ⲑ⸍ ⲉ̇ⲡⲓⲥⲕⲟ⸌ⲡ⸍ ⲡⲁⲭⲟⲣⲁⲥ): ii, l. 6
orthodox bishop of Sai (ⲉⲡⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲍⲁⲏ̄ ⲟⲣ⸌ⲇ⸍ⲝ): ii, l. 7
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲟⲣⲁⲥ): ii, l. 6
Sai (ⲍⲁⲏ︦): ii, l. 7
- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 3 57
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Godlewski 1995, pp. 114–115; Browne 1996d, p. 131; Adams 1996, p. 230 (translation); Browne 1998c, p. 28; Khalil – Müller 1999, p. 21; Łajtar 2006a, pp. 93–94; Wojciechowski 2011, passim (on prosopography of Archive 3); Ruffini 2012a, passim, esp. pp. 14–19, 265–270 (generally on Archive 3); Ruffini 2014a, p. 965; Nubian Berichtigungsliste (http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/index.php/Nubian_Berichtigungsliste)
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