Text 2860
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- probably tomb T2 (296), south of cathedral (church 293)
- Excavation no.
- perhaps belonging to collection 66A/109 (photo nos. V.66.19/29 C10, 11r & V.66.19/29 C10, 11v)
- 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, thel( ) of Kaktine
- Date
- probably 1000–1199
- Notes
- address in Greek
reused from earlier Arabic document DBMNT 2861
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black (?)
- Lines
- i: 3; ii: 1
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular sheet of paper, written on both sides along longer edges; reused from earlier Arabic text (DBMNT 2861), traces of which preserved on both sides, written upside down in respect to Old Nubian text; document originally folded three times horizontally and four times vertically
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete (?)
- Date
- probably 1000–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- priest (ⲥⲟⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): i, l. 3
eparch (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): ii, l. 1 (P. QI 4 117: ‘great eparch’ [ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍]; corr. A. Łajtar)
kratistos (ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 1
thel( ) of Kaktine (ⲑⲉ⸌ⲗ⸍ ⲕⲁⲕ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Kaktine (ⲕⲁⲕ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 1
- Source
- P. QI 4 117, fig. 62
- Image
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- Source
- P. QI 4 117, fig. 62
- Image
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 4 117, fig. 62
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Ruffini 2012a, pp. 212–18; Ruffini 2014a, p. 968; Ruffini 2014b, p. 229
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