Text 2855
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- probably tomb T2 (296), south of cathedral (church 293)
- Excavation no.
- unknown (labelled C24 on photo)
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: letter
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- letter from Soukousapa, eparch, to Dauti, tel( ) of Kaktine
- Date
- probably 1000–1199
- Notes
- address in Greek
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black (?)
- Lines
- i: 17; ii: 2
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular sheet of paper, written on both sides along shorter edges; address on side ii written upside down in respect to text on side i; document originally folded seven (?) times horizontally and three (?) times vertically
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; two large lacunae in central right part
- Date
- probably 1000–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- asti (ⲁⲥ̣[ⲧⲓ]): i, l. 2
priest (⳦ⲉ): i, l. 15
chief (ⲟⲩⲣⲁⲛ): i, l. 15
meizoteros (ⲇ̣ⲁ̣ⲩⲕⲁⲧⲧ): i, ll. 16–17
eparch (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): ii, l. 1 (P. QI 4 114: ‘great eparch’ [ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍]; corr. A. Łajtar)
kratistos (ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 1
thel( ) of Kaktine (ⲧⲉ⸌ⲗ⸍ ⲕⲁⲕ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, ll. 1–2
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Kaktine (ⲕⲁⲕ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 2
- Source
- P. QI 4 114, fig. 58
- Image
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- Source
- P. QI 4 114, fig. 58
- Image
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 4 114, fig. 58
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Ruffini 2012a, pp. 212–18; Ruffini 2014a, p. 968; NOM 4, no. 42 (on name in re, l. 3)
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