Text 559

Provenance
Nauri
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
not recorded
Excavation no.
 
Present location
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Museum no.
Acc. No. E.29-1929
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: legal
Language
Old Nubian
Content
division of profits from land between Thadeosi and Isounga; king Basil appearing
Date
after 1190–circa 1199
Notes
'official Nubian protocol'
Material
leather
Object dimensions
H: 9; W: 30
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
12
Height of letters
 
Description
irregular piece of goat leather
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete
Date
after 1190–circa 1199
Chronological systems
king's occurrence
Dating formulae
ⲃⲁⲥⲗ̄ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄ {ⲟⲙⲁⲣⲓ} ⲟⲩⲣⲓⲛⲛ̄
Transcription
"King Basil being king" (l. 1)
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄): l. 1; (ⲟⲩⲣ): l. 1
bishop of Sai (ⲍⲁⲉⲓ ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥ): ll. 1–2
angagett of Seven Lands (ⲉⲡⲧⲁ ⲭⲱⲣⲁ ⲁⳟⲁⲅⲉⲧⲧ): ll. 2–3 (Zyhlarz 1932 ⲉⲡⲓⲇⲭⲱⲣⲁ ⲉⲓⲥⲟⲩⲥⲓⲁⳟⲁⲅⲉⲧⲧ; corr. A. Łajtar & B. Wojciechowski)
priest (⳦): ll. 8, 9
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Sai (ⲍⲁⲉⲓ): l. 1
Seven Lands (ⲉⲡⲧⲁ ⲭⲱⲣⲁ): l. 2 (Zyhlarz 1932 ⲉⲡⲓⲇⲭⲱⲣⲁ; corr. A. Łajtar)
Oppini (ⲟⲡⲡⲓⲛⲓ): l. 3
Source
Griffith 1928, no. 2, pl. 2
Image
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Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
Zyhlarz 1932, pp. 187–190
Other editions
Griffith 1928b, pp. 12–18 (no. 2), pl. 2
Other publications
Monneret de Villard 1935–1957: 1, pp. 238, 241; Monneret de Villard 1937, p. 64; Plumley 1978, pp. 239–40; Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 112–113; Łajtar 2006a, p. 94; Edwards 2012, p. 151, fig. 6.14; Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 227 (no. 32)
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