Text 2835
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- 66.7/21 (reg. no. 109)
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: letter
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- letter from Tilinngoko, 'meske' of eparch of Nobadia, to Koussan
- Date
- 1000–1399
- Notes
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- not registered
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- i: 15; ii: 1
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular sheet of paper, written on both sides along longer edges; address on side ii written upside down in respect to text on side ii; document originally folded four times horizontally and three times vertically; wide uninscribed bottom margin on side i
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete apart from small lacuna in left-hand margin of side i
- Date
- 1000–1399
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- great ngeshsh (ⳟⲉϣϣⲓⲇⲁⲩⲉⲗ̄): i, l. 5
eparch of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): i, l. 7; ii, l. 1
eikshil (ⲉⲓⲕϣⲓ): i, l. 7
king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): i, l. 7
tot of house (ⳟⲟⲕⲓⲛ ⲧ̣ⲟⲧ): i, l. 8
asti (ⲁ̇ⲥⲧⲁ): i, l. 13
eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): i, l. 15
'meske' of eparch of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̄ ⸌ⲥⲟ⸍ⳟⲟⳝⲓⲛ ⲙⲉⲥⲕⲉ): ii, l. 1 (P. QI 4 93: ⲧⲓⲗⲛ̄ ⳟⲟⲕⲟ· ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̄ ⸌ⲥⲟ⸍ⳟⲟⳝⲓⲛ ⲙⲉⲥⲕⲉⲕⲟⲩⲥⲥⲁⲛ, ‘Tilinngoko the eparch of Nobadia to Meskekoussan’; NOM 4, no. 34b: ⲧⲓⲗⲛ̄ⳟⲟⲕⲟ· ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̄ ⸌ⲥⲟ⸍ⳟⲟⳝⲓⲛ ⲙⲉⲥⲕⲉ ⲕⲟⲩⲥⲥⲁⲛ, ‘Tilinngoko, 'meske' of the eparch of Nobadia to Koussan’)
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̄): i, l. 7
- Source
- P. QI 4 93, fig. 35
- Image
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- Source
- P. QI 4 93, fig. 36
- Image
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 4 93, figs. 35–6
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Ruffini 2014a, pp. 962, with n. 15, 968; Ruffini 2014b, pp. 222, 224; NOM 4, no. 34 (on names in re, ll. 3, 12, and ve, l. 1)
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