Text 2932
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- hose 210, room 1, beneath floor
- Excavation no.
- unknown, found in 1972
- Present location
- Coptic Museum, Cairo (?)
- Museum no.
- unknown
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: letter
- Language
- Coptic
- Content
- letter relating to Nubian–Egyptian relations addressed to a Nubian official; unidentified king mentioned, probably Kyriakos
- Date
- 760
- Notes
- found together with DBMNT 2933, 2934, and the Arabic letter of Musa ibn Ka'b from AD 758
- Material
- papyrus
- Object dimensions
- H: 95; W: 48
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 61 (?)
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular papyrus scroll written along shorter edges
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- almost complete, left margin damaged
- Date
- 760
- Chronological systems
- Era of Diocletian
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (unpublished form): l. ?
great eparch (unpublished form): l. ?
courier (ⲃⲉⲣⲉⲧⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ): l. ?
notary (unpublished form): l. ?
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- unpublished; description of contents and archaeological context in Adams 2010, pp. 24, 245
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley – Adams 1974, pp. 237–8, pls. 53.3–4, 54.3; Plumley 1975c, pp. 241–2, 245; Hagen 2010, p. 722
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