Text 583
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
- Excavation no.
- NI 74.1.30.6(6) (74/14.6)
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- release of servant Gaweson to Papsi by Mena; king Mouses Georgios appears
- Date
- 30 July 1187
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
P. QI III 35 – AD 1188; date corrected in Łajtar 2009b, p. 101; lunar day incorrect – 15 days later than Alexandrian cycle
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- H: 34.5; W: 32
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 24
- Height of letters
- Description
- no photo available
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 30 July 1187
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
lunar calendar
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲁⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⳨ⲅ̄ ·· ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ · ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲉⲛ ⲥⲟⲩ̄ⲁⲉⲓⲗⲁ ⲋ̄ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ · ⲟⲩⲛⲛⲁ ⲡⲣⲱ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ · ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ ⲧⲉⲉⲓⲧⲓ ⲅⲉⲛⲕⲟⲗ · ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲟⲩⲁ̄ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ ·
ⲡⲁⲭⲟⲛ⟦ ̣ ̣⟧ · ⲍ̄ⲧⲗⲟ̄ - Transcription
- "when it was (year) 903 from the Martyrs, when it was the 6th (day) of the month of Mesore, when it was the first (day) of the moon, King Georgios, who has good hope, being king of Dotawo" (ll. 2–4)
"on the 7th (day of the month) of Pachon" (l. 16) - Months
- ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲉ-ⲛ
ⲡⲁⲭⲟⲛ - Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 3
king of Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲟⲩ): l. 4
keeper of granaries (ϣⲟⲩⳟ): l. 4
queen mother (ⳟⲟⲛⲛⲉⲛ): l. 5
architriklinios (ⲟⲇⳡⲟⲇ ⲇⲁⲩⲟⲩⲣ): ll. 5–6
triklinios of Douksi (ⲇⲟⲩⲕⲥⲛ̄ ⲟⲇⳡⲟⲇ): l. 6
scribe (ⲥⲟⲩⲛⲧⲟⲩⳣⲉ): l. 7
epistolary scribe (ⲉ̇ⲡⲓⲥⲧⲟⲗⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⲩⲛⲧⲟⲩⲟⲩⲉ̇): l. 7
oikonomos (ⳟⲟⲕⲕ ⲉⲇ̄ⳡⲣ): l. 8
ngeshsh of Atwa (ⲁⲧⳣⲁⲛ ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 8
eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): ll. 10, 14
abba (ⲡⲁⲡⲟ): ll. 10, 22
bishop of Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲓⲗⲓⲙⲛ̄ ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥ): l. 10
triklinios (ⲟⲇⳡⲟⲇ): l. 11
ngeshsh of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲛ̄ ⲅⲟⲩⲗ ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 11
ngeshsh of domestikos (ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧⲛ̄ ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 12
timakkis (ⲧⲓⲙⲁⲕⲕⲥⲗ̄): l. 18
fire-sacrificer (?) (ⲉⲓⲅⲗⲁ ⲙⲟⲥⲗ̄): l. 19
triklinios of bishop (ⲡⲁⲡⲥⲛ̄ ⲟⲇⳡⲟⲇ): l. 20
great priest (⳦ ⲇⲁⲩⲟⲩⲣ): l. 20
archdeacon (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲇⲓⲁⲅⲟ⸌ⲛ⸍): l. 21
liturgist (ⳝⲁⲗⲗⲓⲅⲁⲧⲧ): l. 21
priest (⳦ⲉ): l. 22
asti of Makari (?) (ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲛ̄ ⲁⲥⲧⲗ̄ⲗⲟ): l. 22 (P. QI 3 35: ⳦ⲉ ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲛ̄ ⲁⲥⲧⲗ̄ⲗⲟ, ‘daughter of the priest Makari’; Łajtar 2009b, pp. 101–102: 'I, Kapeni, priest, asti of Makari' or 'I, Kapeni, asti of priest Makari')
bishop (ⲡⲁⲡⲥⲗ̄): l. 23
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟ): l. 4
Douksi (ⲇⲟⲩⲕⲥⲛ︦): l. 6
Atwa (ⲁⲧⳣⲁ): l. 8
Seven Districts (ϣⲁⲗ ⲕⲟⲗⲟⲧⲗ︦): l. 9
Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲛ︦ ⲅⲟⲩⲗ): ll. 9, 11, 12
Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲓⲗⲓⲙⲛ︦): ll. 10; (ⲥⲗ︦ⲙⲛ︦ ⲇⲡ︦ⲡⲗⲁ︦): ll. 13–14
church of Holy Trinity (ⲧⲟⲩⲥⲕⲟ ⳟⲥ︦ⲥⲛ︦ ⲕⲥ︦ⲥⲉ): l. 13
Makari (?) (ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲛ̄): l. 22 (P. QI 3 35: ⳦ⲉ ⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲛ̄ ⲁⲥⲧⲗ̄ⲗⲟ, ‘daughter of the priest Makari’; Łajtar 2009b, pp. 101–102: 'I, Kapeni, priest, asti of Makari' or 'I, Kapeni, asti of priest Makari')
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 3 35
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Plumley 1978, passim; Osman 1982, passim; Adams 1996, pp. 234–235 (translation), table 18; CSBE(2), pp. 313–314 (no. 13); Łajtar 2009b, pp. 101–102 (on l. 22); Hendricx 2011, pp. 48–51; Edwards 2011, p. 94; Wojciechowski 2011, passim (on prosopography of Archive 3); Ruffini 2012a, passim, esp. pp. 14–19, 265–270 (generally on Archive 3); Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 223 (no. 19); Ruffini 2014a, n. 41 on p. 966; Nubian Berichtigungsliste (http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/index.php/Nubian_Berichtigungsliste); Seignobos 2015, p. 194
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