Text 586
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
- Excavation no.
- NI 74.1.30.6(9a) (74/14.9)
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- deed of sale of inherited rights to church land by Ngonnen to Mashshouda; king Basil appears
- Date
- 30 December 1198
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
P. QI III 38 – AD 1199; lunar day incorrect – 8 days earlier than Alexandrian cycle
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- H: 47; 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 December 1198
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
lunar calendar
Era of the Martyrs
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲧⲱⲃⲓⲁ ⲇ̄ⲧⲁ ⲟⲩⲛⲛⲁ ⲍ̄ⲧⲁ ⲁ̄ⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⳨ⲓ︦ⲉ︦ ⲛ̄ⲛⲓ ⲃⲁⲥⲗ̄ ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲟⲩⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲁ̄ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ ·
- Transcription
- "on the 4th (day) of (the month of) Tybi, on the 7th (day) of the moon, when it was (year) 915 from the Martyrs, Basil being King of Dotawo" (ll. 2–3)
- Months
- ⲧⲱⲃⲓ-ⲁ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king of Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲟⲩ): l. 2
keeper of granaries (ϣⲟⲩⳟ): l. 3
queen mother (ⳟⲟⲛⲛⲉⲛ): l. 3
ngash (ⳟⲁϣ): l. 4
domestikos elect (?) (ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧⲓⳟⲟ): l. 4
eparch of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲛ̄ ⲅⲟⲩⲛ ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): ll. 4–5
domestikos of Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲛ ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧ): l. 5
abba (ⲡⲁⲡⲟ): ll. 5, 18
bishop of Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲫⲣ︦ⲙ︦ ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥ): l. 6
triklinios of eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝⲓⲛ ⲟⲇⳡⲟⲇ): l. 6
scribe (ⲥⲟⲩⲛⲧⲟⲩⲉ̇): l. 7
great priest (⳦ ⲇⲁⲩⲉⲓⲣ): l. 7; (ⲥⲟⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲇⲁⲩⲉⲗ̄): l. 23
scribe of eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝⲓⲛ ⲥⲟⲩⲛⲧⲟⲩⲉ̇): l. 8
silentiary (ⲅⲟⲧⲧⲁⲙⲉⲧⲧ): l. 8
ngeshsh of domestikos (ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧⲛ̄ ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 9
ngeshsh (ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 9
ngeshshigaueikko (ⳟⲉϣϣⲓⲅⲁⲩⲉⲕ̄ⲕⲟ): l. 10
vice-eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝⲓⲙⲁⲣ): ll. 10–11
meizoteros of Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲫⲣ︦ⲙ︦ ⲇⲁⲩⲕⲁⲧⲧ): l. 11
goush of Tharmousi (ⲑⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲥⲛ̄ ⲅⲟⲩϣ): ll. 11–12
domestikos of Tafa (ⲧⲁⲫⲁⲛ ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧ): l. 12
ngeshsh of town (ⲇⲡ̄ⲡⲛ̄ ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 13
siring of town (ⲇⲡ̄ⲡⲛ̄ ⲥⲣ̄ⳟ): l. 13
choiakishshil (ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕϣ̄ϣⲓ): l. 16
timakkis (ⲧⲓⲙⲁⲕⲓⲕⲓⲥ): l. 17; (ⲧⲓⲙⲁⲕⲕⲓⲥ): l. 23
bishop (ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥ): l. 19
tot of Tamit (ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲧⲛ̄ ⲧⲟⲧ): l. 21
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟ): l. 2
Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲛ︦ ⲅⲟⲩⲛ): ll. 4–5
Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲫⲣ︦ⲙ︦): ll. 6, 11
Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁ): l. 5
Tharmousi (ⲑⲁⲣⲙⲟⲩⲥⲛ︦): ll. 11–12
Tafa (ⲧⲁⲫⲁ): l. 12
church of Cross in Mosmosi (ⲕⲥ︦ⲥⲉ ⲙⲟⲥⲙⲟⲥⲛ︦ ⲥ︦ⲧⲁⲩⲣⲟⲥ): ll. 14–15
Mosmosi (ⲙⲟⲥⲙⲟⲥⲛ︦): l. 14
Tamit (ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲧⲛ︦): l. 21
- Source
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 3 38
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Plumley 1978, passim; Osman 1982, passim; Łajtar 1992a, pp. 123–124 (no. 4); Satzinger 1995, col. 423; Adams 1996, p. 233 (translation), table 18; Browne 1998c, p. 23; CSBE(2), pp. 313–314 (no. 15); Łajtar 2006a, p. 95; Wojciechowski 2011, passim (on prosopography of Archive 3); CSCN, table 11 on p. 72, p. 238; Ruffini 2012a, passim, esp. pp. 14–19, 265–270 (generally on Archive 3); Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 224 (no. 22); NOM 4, no. 7 (on Papasinen the ‘ngash’) and 8 (on ll. 21–22)
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