Text 2858
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- probably tomb T2 (296), south of cathedral (church 293)
- Excavation no.
- unknown (labelled C23 on photo)
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: letter
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- letter from unidentified eparch to Dauti, tel( ) of Kaktine
- Date
- probably 1000–1199
- Notes
- address in Greek
Arabic text DBMNT 2859 on side ii, above address
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black (?)
- Lines
- i: 7; ii: 1
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular sheet of paper, written on both sides along longer edges; document originally folded three times horizontally and four (?) times vertically
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- fragmentary; portion of left-hand part of side i preserved as well as lower margin
- Date
- probably 1000–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- eparch (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): ii, l. 1 (P. QI 4 116 fr. 2: ‘great eparch’ [ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍]; corr. A. Łajtar)
kratistos (ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 1
thel( ) of Kaktine (ⲧⲉ⸌ⲗ⸍ ⲕⲁⲕ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Kaktine (ⲕⲁⲕ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 1
- Source
- P. QI 4 116 fr. 2, fig. 61
- Image
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- Source
- P. QI 4 116 fr. 2, fig. 61
- Image
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 4 116 fr. 2, fig. 61
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Ruffini 2012a, pp. 212–18; NOM 4, no. 44 (on name in re, l. 7)
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