Text 2832

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
house 183 (or podium)
Excavation no.
unknown (found in 1964)
Present location
British Museum, London
Museum no.
not registered
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
letter from Apapa, deacon of meizoteros of Pachoras, to Ioannes, archbishop
Date
1000–1399
Notes
address in Greek
Material
paper
Object dimensions
H: 10.6; W: 18.5
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
creamy/beige
Text colour
black
Lines
i: 12; ii: 6
Height of letters
 
Description
rectangular sheet of paper, written on both sides along longer edges; text on side ii written partly upside down; document originally folded six times horizontally and twice vertically
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete
Date
1000–1399
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
deacon (ⲇⲓⲏ⸌ⲅ⸍): ii, l. 6
deacon of meizoteros of Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲛ ⲙⲉⲓ⸌ⲍ̣⸍ ⲇⲓⲏ⸌ⲅ⸍): ii, l. 6
bishop (ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍): ii, l. 6 (ed. pr. ‘great bishop’ [ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍]; corr. A. Łajtar)
kratistos (ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 6
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁ): ii, l. 6
Source
P. QI 4 89, fig. 31
Image
Image not available
Source
P. QI 4 89, fig. 31
Image
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Latest edition
P. QI 4 89, fig. 31
Other editions
 
Other publications
Ruffini 2012a, p. 231; Ruffini 2014a, p. 968; Ruffini 2014b, pp. 224, 225, 226–7; Berkes 2017, p. 118, table on p. 119
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