Text 1297
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 785, room 5, level 6
- Excavation no.
- 84.2.15/35 (reg. no. 84/743)
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- subliterary: catalogue of names
- Language
- unidentified
- Content
- magical text with three painted figures and list of Archangels, apocalyptic beasts, 24 Elders of the Apocalypse, and the Apostles Peter and Andrew
- Date
- 900–1199
- Notes
- dated by archaeological context
- Material
- parchment
- Object dimensions
- H: 17; W: 7
- Text dimensions
- H: 8; W: 3.5
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black (?)
- Lines
- 17
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular sheet of parchment, originally folded into four; three of these smaller rectangles adorned with paintings of figures (2 warriors and angel); the fourth bearing inscription
- Decorative elements
- decorated with colourful depictions of three figures: 2 warriors and angle
- State of preservation
- almost complete; left part of upper margin broken off; cracks along lines of folding
- Date
- 900–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- unpublished; summary of contents in Adams 2010, pp. 217, 244, 306 (inventory), pl. 44d
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Łajtar 2006b, p. 110 (no. 8); Ruffini 2012a, p. 229; Łajtar – van der Vliet 2017, p. 223
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