Text 4431
- Provenance
- Askut
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- west poemorium, north end, near late Christian houses
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Fowler Museum, Los Angeles
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: letter
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- letter from Mariam, daughter of eparch, to Chael, scribe
- Date
- probably 1100–1199
- Notes
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- H: c. 5; W: c. 20
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 1: 6; 2: 1
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly rectangular piece of paper with text written in black ink on both sides: side 1 containing six lines, side 2 one line (address), written upside down in respect to the text on the other side; two horizontal folding lines and 1 (?) vertical
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; three big holes in the right part; right margin damaged
- Date
- probably 1100–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝⲓ): i, l. 1; ii, l. 1
scribe (?) (ⲥ̣ⲟ̣ⲩ̣[ⲛⲧⲟ]ⲩ̣ⲟⲩⲉ̣): ii, l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Source
- van Gerven Oei – Tsakos 2018, figs. 1–2
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- van Gerven Oei – Tsakos 2018, pp. 91–8, figs. 1–2
- Other editions
- Other publications
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