Text 2868
- 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.66.19/15 C2v & V.66.19/14 C2r)
- 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
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black (?)
- Lines
- i: 10; ii: 4
- 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 rest of text; document originally folded four times horizontally and three 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
- tot (ⲧⲟⲧ): i, l. 8
queen mother (ⳟⲟ̣ⲛⲛⲁ): i, l. 8
priest (ⲥⲟⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 2
eparch (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): ii, l. 3 (P. QI 4 122: ‘great eparch’ [ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍]; corr. A. Łajtar)
kratistos (ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 3
thel( ) of Kaktine (ⲑⲉⲗ⸌ⲕ⸍): ii, l. 3
chief (ⲟⲩⲣⲁⲛ): ii, l. 4
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Kaktine (⸌ⲕ⸍): ii, l. 3
- Source
- P. QI 4 122, fig. 67
- Image
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- Source
- P. QI 4 122, fig. 67
- Image
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 4 122, fig. 67
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Ruffini 2012a, pp. 212–18; Ruffini 2014a, p. 968
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