Text 2839

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
house 177, room 1
Excavation no.
69/26.2 = 69.2.8.8
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Old Nubian
Content
letter from Mousi to Mashshouda
Date
probably 1000–1199
Notes
written on sheet containing earlier Arabic text (DBMNT 2840)
Material
paper
Object dimensions
not recorded
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
black
Lines
i: 9; ii: 2
Height of letters
 
Description
roughly rectangular sheet of paper, written on both sides along longer edges; torn from larger sheet containing fragmentary Arabic text on sie ii (DBMNT 2840); address on side ii written upside down in respect to text on side i; document originally folded three times horizontally and three times (?) vertically; on side i letters progressively smaller towards the bottom of text
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete
Date
probably 1000–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Soulouwi (ⲥⲟⲩⲗⲓⲅⲟⲩⲗ): i, l. 2
Source
P. QI 4 97, fig. 40
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
P. QI 4 97, fig. 40
Other editions
 
Other publications
Ruffini 2012a, pp. 218–20; Ruffini 2014a, p. 968; Ruffini 2014b, pp. 224, 228
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