Text 2844

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
north of house X10
Excavation no.
74.2.13/3
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Old Nubian
Content
letter from Marturophore, choiakishshil, to Papasa
Date
probably 1100–1199
Notes
 
Material
paper
Object dimensions
H: 9.8; W: 15.8
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
black (?)
Lines
i: 7; ii: 2
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
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
incomplete, upper right corner of side i lost; document cracked along lines of folding
Date
probably 1100–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): i, l. 5
choiakishshil (ⲕⲉⲓⲁⲕⲓϣⲗ̄): ii, l. 1
asionga[---] (ⲁⲥⲓⲟⳟⲁ[---]): ii, l. 2
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Tafa (ⲧⲁⲫⲉ): i, l. 2
Source
P. QI 4 103, fig. 46
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
P. QI 4 103, fig. 46
Other editions
 
Other publications
Ruffini 2012a, p. 48; Ruffini 2014a, pp. 962, 964, 968
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