Text 2830
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 177, under mastaba (Archive 4)
- Excavation no.
- 74.1.29/7d
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: letter
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- letter from unidentified eparch to Mena, bishop of Phrim
- Date
- probably 1150–1199
- Notes
- address in Greek
transcription labelled 74.1.29/11d (also in Plumley 1978 and Ruffini 2014a)
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- H: 8.3; W: 22.3
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black (?)
- Lines
- i: 6; ii: 1
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular sheet of paper, written on both sides along longer edges; text originally folded three times horizontally
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; one side margin damaged
- Date
- probably 1150–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝⳝ): i, l. 3; (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): i, l. 6
priest (ⲥⲟⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): i, l. 4
eparch of Nobadia (ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟⲃⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): ii, l. 1
doug( )ikshil (ⲉⲕ̄ϣⲗ̄ ⲇⲟⲩ⸌ⲅ⸍): ii, l. 1 (P. QI 4 87: ‘ikshil of Douksi’)
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): ii, l. 1
orthodox bishop of Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲟⲣ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲉ̇ⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲉ̇ⲫⲓ̄ⲣ̄): i, l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Nobadia (ⲛⲟⲃⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): ii, l. 1
Douksi (ⲇⲟⲩ⸌ⲅ⸍): ii, l. 1
Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲉ̇ⲫⲓ̄ⲣ̄): i, l. 1
- Latest edition
- P. QI 4 87, fig. 29
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1978, p. 241; Ruffini 2012a, p. 51; Ruffini 2014a, p. 968
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