Text 587
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
- Excavation no.
- NI 74.1.30.6(16) (74/14.16)
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- deed of land sale by Aggestotil to Mashshouda; king Basil appearing
- Date
- probably 1198–1199
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- H: 29; W: 12.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 33
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular sheet of paper; ll. 10–33 written by 2nd hand
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- probably 1198–1199
- Chronological systems
- lunar calendar
Egyptian calendar
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲉ̄ⲡⲓⲫⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⲩⲁ̄ⲉⲓⲗⲁ · ⲅ̄ · ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ · ⲟⲩⲛⲛⲁ · ⲋ̄ · ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ · … ⲃⲁⲥⲗ̄ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄ ⲧⲉⲉⲓⲧⲓ ⲅⲉⲛⲕⲟⲗ ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲱⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲁ̄ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄
- Transcription
- "when it was the 3rd (day) of the month of Epeiph, when it was the 6th (day) of the moon, King Basil, who has good hope, being king of Dotawo" (ll. 3–7)
- Months
- ⲉ︦ⲡⲓⲫ-ⲛ︦
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄): l. 5
king of Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲱⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 6
eparch of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): l. 7
domestikos of Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲛ ⲥⲁⲙⲁⲧ): l. 8
abba (ⲡⲁⲡⲟ): ll. 8–9
bishop of Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲗ̄ⲙⲛ̄ ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥ): ll. 9, 26
choiakishshil (ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕϣ̄ϣⲕ̄): l. 11
ouataphil (ⲟⲩⲁ̇ⲧⲁⲫⲗ̄): l. 27
meizoteros (ⲇⲁⲩⲕⲁⲧⲧ): l. 27
chairimatai (ⲭⲁⲏⲣⲓⲙⲁⲧⲁⲉⲗ̄): l. 28
eisol (ⲉⲓⲥⲟⲗ): l. 29
atparkitil (ⲁⲧⲡⲁⲣⲕⲓⲧⲗ̄): ll. 29–30
suppliant (ⲉⲓⲥⲕⲧ̄ⲧⲁ): l. 31
deacon (ⲇⲓⲁ̇ⲕⲟⲛ): l. 32
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲱ): l. 6
Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ︦): l. 7
Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁ): l. 8; (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥ): l. 20
Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲗ︦ⲙⲛ︦): ll. 9, 26; (ⲥⲓⲗⲓⲙⲏ): l. 13; (ⲥⲗ︦ⲙⲓ): l. 14
Silmi-West (= Ibrim-West) (ⲥⲓⲗⲙⲓ ⲧⲓⲛⲟ): ll. 20–1
(church of) Michael (ⲙⲓⲭⲁⲏ︦ⲗⲓⲛ): l. 18; (ⲙⲓⲭⲁⲏⲗⲓⲛ): l. 19
(church of) Georgios in Silmi-West (= Ibrim-West) (ⲥⲓⲗⲙⲓ ⲧⲓⲛⲟ ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟ︦ⲥⲓ): ll. 20–1
Toungoul (= Dongola) (ⲧⲟⲩⳟⳟⲗ̄ⲕⲓ): l. 30 (P. QI 3 39: ⲉⲓⲣⲟⲧⲁⲧⲟⲩⳟⳟⲗ̄ⲕⲓ, ‘Eirotatoungngilki’; NOM 4, no. 9b: ⲉⲓⲣⲟⲧⲁ ⲧⲟⲩⳟⳟⲗ̄ⲕⲓ, ‘Irota Toungngilki = Irota of Toungngil’)
- Latest edition
- P. QI 3 39, pl. 2
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Plumley 1978, passim; Osman 1982, passim; Satzinger 1995, col. 423; Łajtar 1992a, pp. 123–124 (no. 4); Browne 1998c, p. 23; Bechhaus-Gerst 2000, p. 19; Hendricx 2011, pp. 48–51; 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. 225 (no. 24); NOM 4, no. 9 (on ll. 18–19 & 30–31)
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