Text 585
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
- Excavation no.
- NI 74.1.30.6(1) (74/14.1)
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- deed of land sale by Engngaeil to Mashshouda and Pampigon, his wife; king Basil appearing
- Date
- probably 1190–1198
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- H: 44.5; W: 25
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 40
- Height of letters
- Description
- no photo available
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- probably 1190–1198
- Chronological systems
- lunar calendar
Egyptian calendar
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲫⲁⲛⲟⲩⲑⲓⲁ̄ ⲃ̄ⳣⲁ · ⲟⲩⲛⲛ ⲓ︤ⲇ︥̄ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ · … · ⲃⲁⲥⲗ̄ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄ ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲟⲩⲁ̄ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ ·
- Transcription
- "on the 2nd (day) of (the month of) Pharmouthi, when it was the 14th (day) of the moon, King Basil being king of Dotawo" (ll. 2–4)
- Months
- ⲫⲁⲛⲟⲩⲑⲓ-ⲁ︦
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲟⲩ): ll. 3–4
king of Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲟⲩ): l. 4
queen mother (ⳟⲟⲛⲛⲉⲛ): ll. 4–5
ngash (ⳟⲁϣ): l. 5
architriklinios (ⲟⲇⳡⲟⲇ ⲇⲁⲩⲟⲩⲣ): ll. 5–6
great scribe (ⲥⲟⲩⲛⲧⲟⲩⲟⲩⲉ̇ ⲇⲁⲩⲟⲩⲣ): ll. 6–7
epistolary scribe (ⲉ̇ⲡⲓⲥⲧⲟⲗⲓⲛ ⲥⲟⲩⲛⲧⲟⲩⲟⲩⲉ̇): l. 7
oikonomos (ⳟⲟⲕ ⲉⲇ̄ⳡⲣ): l. 8
eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): ll. 9, 12
domestikos of Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲛ ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧ): l. 10
abba (ⲡⲁⲡⲟ): l. 10
bishop of Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲓⲗⲓⲙⲛ̄ ⲡⲁⲡⲥ̄): ll. 10–11
silentiary (ⲅⲟⲧⲧⲁⲙⲉⲧ): l. 11
great priest (ⲥⲟⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲇⲁⲩⲟⲩⲣ): ll. 13, 23
ngeshsh of Odjo (ⲟⲇⳝⲟⲛ ⳟⲉϣϣ): ll. 13–14, 39
ngeshsh of town (ⲇⲡ̄ⲡⲛ̄ ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 14
choiakishshil (ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕϣⲗ̄): ll. 18, 36
eparch of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): l. 21
bishop of Kourte (ⲕⲟⲩⲣⲧⲉⲛ ⲡⲁⲡⲥ): l. 21
lord of the horse (ⲙⲟⲩⲣⲧⲛ︦ ⳟⲟⲇ): l. 22
chief (ⲟⲩⲣⲁⲛ): ll. 22, 25, 32, 34, 39
ngal of Adindan (ⲁ̇ⲧⲛ̄ⲇⲁⲛⲛ̄ ⳟⲁⲗ): ll. 23–4 (ed. pr. 'son of Atindani'; corr. Łajtar 2009b)
timakkis of Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲛ̄ ⲧⲓⲙⲁⲕⲕⲓⲥ): l. 24
tot of Addo (ⲁⲇⲇⲟⲛ ⲧⲟⲧ): l. 25
ngeshsh (ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 25
meizoteros of Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲓⲗⲓⲙⲛ̄ ⲇⲁⲩⲟⲩⲕⲁⲧⲧ): l. 26
tot of town (ⲇⲡ̄ⲡⲉⲛ ⲧⲟⲧ): l. 27 (ed. pr. ⲕⲟⲇⲡ̄ⲡⲉⲛ ⲧⲟⲧ; corr. Łajtar 2009b)
tot of Sai (ⲍⲁⲉⲛ̄ ⲧⲟⲧ): ll. 27–8
scribe of Kaki West (ⲕⲁⲕⲧⲓⲛⲉⲛ ⲥⲟⲩⲛⲧⲟⲩⳣⲉ): l. 29
tot of Tamit (ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲧⲛ̄ ⲧⲟⲧ): l. 33
tot of Toshka (ⲧⲟϣⲕⲉⲛ ⲧⲟⲧ): l. 34
goush of Tharmousi (ⲑⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲥⲛ̄ ⲅⲟⲩϣ): ll. 34–5
tot of Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲓⲗⲓⲙⲛ̄ ⲧⲟⲧ): ll. 37–8
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟ): l. 4
Seven Districts (ϣⲁⲗ ⲍ︦ⲧⲗ︦︦): l. 8
Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲛ︦ ⲅⲟⲩⲗ): l. 9; (ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲛ︦ ⲅⲟⲩⲛ): l. 12; (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ︦): l. 21
Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁ): l. 10; (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲛ︦): l. 24
Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲓⲗⲓⲙⲛ︦): ll. 10, 15, 26, 37
Odjo (ⲟⲇⳝⲟ): ll. 13, 39
(church of) Mary in Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲓⲗⲓⲙⲛ︦ ⲙⲁⲣⲓⲁⲛ): l. 15
Kourte (ⲕⲟⲩⲣⲧⲉ): l. 21
Adindan (ⲁ︦ⲧⲛ︦ⲇⲁⲛⲛ︦): l. 23
Addo (ⲁⲇⲇⲟ): l. 25
Sai (ⲍⲁⲉⲛ︦): l. 27
Kaki West (ⲕⲁⲕⲧⲓⲛⲉ): l. 29
Tamit (ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲧⲛ︦): l. 33
Toshka (ⲧⲟϣⲕⲉ): l. 34
Tharmousi (ⲑⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲥⲛ︦): ll. 34–5
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 3 37
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Plumley 1978, passim; Osman 1978, pp. 68–69 (translation); Osman 1982, passim; Łajtar 1992a, pp. 123–124 (no. 4); Satzinger 1995, col. 423; Łajtar 2006a, pp. 95, 98; Łajtar 2009b, pp. 102–103; Hendricx 2011, pp. 52–53; 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. 224 (no. 21); Nubian Berichtigungsliste (http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/index.php/Nubian_Berichtigungsliste); Seignobos 2015, p. 194; NOM 4, no. 7a (on Papasinen the ‘ngash’)
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