Text 589
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
- Excavation no.
- NI 74.1.30.6(4) (74/14.4)
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- release from purchase; king Mouses Georgios appearing
- Date
- probably 1155–circa 1180
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- H: 27; W: 49.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 16
- Height of letters
- Description
- no photo available
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- Date
- probably 1155–circa 1180
- Chronological systems
- king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲙⲱⲩⲥⲏⲥ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄ ⲕⲟⲩⲇⲗ̄ = ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ · ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲁ̄ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ ·
- Transcription
- "King Moses, Koudil, being king of Dotawo" (l. 2)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄): l. 2
king of Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 2
queen mother (ⳟⲟⲛⲉⲛ): l. 2
architriklinios (ⲟⲇⳡ ⲇⲁⲩⲟⲩⲣ): l. 3
tot of Ngissin-Nga (ⳟⲥ̄ⲥⲛ̄ ⳟⲁⲛ ⲧⲟⲧ): l. 3 (or 'son of Ngissin Ngal')
triklinios of Douksi (ⲇⲟⲩⲅⲥⲛ̄ ⲟⲇⳡⲟⲇ): ll. 3–4
ikshil (ⲉⲕ̄ϣⲗ̄): l. 4; (ⲉⲕ̄ϣⲓ): l. 6
potentiary (?) of Ngopko and Sikkoti (ⳟⲟⲡⲕⲟⲇⲇⲉ ⲥⲕ̄ⲕⲟⲧⲗ̄ⲇⲉⲕⲉⲛ ⲣ̄ⲧ): l. 4
abba (ⲡⲁⲡⲟ): l. 5
bishop of Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲓⲗⲓⲙⲛ̄ ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥ): l. 5
eparch of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): l. 6
ngeshsh of domestikos (ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧⲛ̄ ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 7
ngeshsh of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲛ̄ ⲅⲟⲩⲛ ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 7
meizoteros (ⲇⲁⲩⲕⲁⲧⲧ): l. 11
priest (ⲥⲟⲣⲧⲟ): l. 11
tot of Adindan (ⲁⲧⲛ̄ⲇⲁⲛⲛ̄ ⲧⲟⲧ): l. 11
tot of Ionngal (ⳟⲁⲛ ⲧⲟⲧ): l. 12 (P. QI 3 31: ⲡⲁⲡⲓⲉⲓⲟⲛ ⳟⲁⲛ· ⲧⲟⲧⲗ̄̄ⲗⲟ, ‘and Papi, Tot of Nga(l)’; NOM 4, no. 1b: ⲡⲁⲡⲓ ⲉⲓⲟⲛⳟⲁⲛ· ⲧⲟⲧⲗ̄̄ⲗⲟ, ‘Papi, son of Ionngal’ or 'Papi, tot of Ionngal')
ngeshsh of Istigi (ⲉⲓⲥⲧⲓⲅⲛ̄ ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 13 (P. QI 3 31: ⲙⲁⲙⲉ ⲉⲥ̄ⲧⲓⲡⲛ̄ ⳟⲉϣϣⲗ̄ⲗⲟ, ‘Ngeshsh of Mame-Eistipi’; NOM 4, no. 1c: ‘Mame, ngeshsh of Istigi’)
deacon (ⲇⲓⲁ̇ⲕⲟⲛ): l. 15
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟ): l. 2
Ngissin-Nga (ⳟⲥ︦ⲥⲛ︦ ⳟⲁ): l. 3 (or personal name?)
Douksi (ⲇⲟⲩⲅⲥⲛ︦): l. 3
Ngopko (ⳟⲟⲡⲕⲟ): l. 4
Sikkoti (ⲥⲕ︦ⲕⲟⲧⲗ︦): l. 4
Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲛ︦ ⲅⲟⲩⲗ): l. 5; (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ︦): l. 6; (ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲛ︦ ⲅⲟⲩⲛ): l. 7
Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲓⲗⲓⲙⲛ︦): l. 5
Adindan (ⲁⲧⲛ︦ⲇⲁⲛ): l. 11
Ionngal (ⲉⲓⲟⲛⳟⲁⲛ): l. 12 (P. QI 3 31: ⲡⲁⲡⲓⲉⲓⲟⲛ ⳟⲁⲛ· ⲧⲟⲧⲗ̄̄ⲗⲟ, ‘and Papi, Tot of Nga(l)’; NOM 4, no. 1b: ⲡⲁⲡⲓ ⲉⲓⲟⲛⳟⲁⲛ· ⲧⲟⲧⲗ̄̄ⲗⲟ, ‘Papi, son of Ionngal’ or 'Papi, tot of Ionngal')
Paras (= Faras) (?) (ⲡⲁⲇⲥⲓ): l. 13
Istigi (ⲉⲓⲥⲧⲓⲅⲛ︦): l. 13 (P. QI 3 31: ⲙⲁⲙⲉ ⲉⲥ̄ⲧⲓⲡⲛ̄ ⳟⲉϣϣⲗ̄ⲗⲟ, ‘Ngeshsh of Mame-Eistipi’; NOM 4, no. 1c: ‘Mame, ngeshsh of Istigi’)
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 3 31
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Plumley 1978, passim; Osman 1982, passim; Browne 1998c, p. 22; Bechhaus-Gerst 2000, p. 18; Łajtar 2006a, p. 95; Hendricx 2011, pp. 47–48; 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. 221 (no. 14); Ruffini 2014a, n. 4 on p. 961; NOM 4, no. 2 (on ll. 3–4, 12, & 13)
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