DBMNT

Medium: manuscript
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: legal
Language: Greek/Old Nubian
Content: deed of land sale by Shirepi to Nasri; king Mouses Georgios appearing
Date: probably 1155–circa 1180
Notes: 'official Nubian protocol'

Offices & titles: king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄): ll. 2, 22
king of Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 3
queen mother (ⳟⲟⲛⲛⲉⲛ): ll. 3–4
keeper of granaries (ϣⲟⲩⳟ): l. 4
triklinios of Ngo (ⳟⲟⲛ ⲟⲇⳡⲟⲇ): l. 5
triklinios of Douksi (ⲇⲟⲩⲅⲟⲩⲥⲛ̄ ⲟⲇⳡⲟⲇ): ll. 5–6
great scribe (ⲥⲟⲩⲛⲧⲓⲉ̇ ⲇⲁⲩⲟⲩⲣ): ll. 6–7
epistolary scribe (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⲧⲟⲗⲓⲛ ⲥⲟⲩⲛⲧⲟⲩⲉ̇): l. 7
oikonomos (ⳟⲟⲕⲕⲁ ⲣ̄ⳡⲓⲣ): l. 8
doug( )ikshil (ⲇⲟⲩ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲉⲕ̄ϣⲗ̄): l. 9 (P. QI 3 32: ‘ikshil of Douksi’)
eparch of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): l. 10
domestikos of Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲛ̄ ⲥⲁⲙⲧ): l. 10
silentiary (ⲅⲟⲧⲧⲁⲙⲉⲧⲧ): l. 11
goush of Arminna (ⲁ̇ⲇⲓⲙⲛ̄ⲛⲉⲛ ⲅⲟⲩϣ): ll. 12–13
chief (ⲟⲩⲣⲁⲛ): l. 18
choiakishshil (ⲕⲓⲁ̇ⲕϣ̄ϣⲗ̄): l. 22
priest in retinue of King Georgios (ⲅⲉⲱⲣ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲛ̄ ⳦ⲧⲟⲛ ⲁⲕⲓⲇⲉⲗⲗⲟ): ll. 22–23

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟ): l. 3
Ngo(l) (ⳟⲟ): l. 5
Douksi (ⲇⲟⲩⲅⲟⲩⲥⲛ︦): ll. 5–6; (ⲇⲟⲩ⸌ⲅ⸍): l. 9
Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲓⲛ ⲅⲟⲩⲗ): ll. 8–9; (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ︦): l. 10; (ⲙⲓⲅⲓⲧⲛ︦ ⲅⲟⲩⲗ): l. 11
Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥ): l. 10
Koupanni (ⲕⲟⲩⲡⲁⲛⲛⲓ): l. 13
Amikke East (ⲁ︦ⲙⲕ︦ⲕⲉ ⲙⲁⲧⲧⲟ): ll. 13–14
Mosmosi (ⲙⲟⲥⲙⲟⲥⲛ︦): l. 23

Other publications: Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Plumley 1978, passim; Plumley 1981, p. 8; Osman 1982, passim; Łajtar 1992a, pp. 123–124 (no. 4); Satzinger 1995, col. 423; Browne 1998c, p. 22; Bechhaus-Gerst 2000, pp. 17, 18, 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. 221 (no. 15); Deptuła 2015, p. 131 with n. 46; NOM 4, no. 3 (on ll. 18–20)

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