Text 591
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
- Excavation no.
- NI 74.1.30.6(18) (74/14.18)
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- release of slave Apa by Kapopi; King Mouses Georgios appearing
- Date
- probably 1155–circa 1180
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- H: 17; W: 21
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 20
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular piece of leather
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete but for several lacunae; part of left margin missing
- Date
- probably 1155–circa 1180
- Chronological systems
- king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲅⲉⲱⲣⲅⲓ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲟⲩ ⲙⲱⲩ̄ⲥⲏⲥ ⲡⲁⲡⲉⲗⲗⲓ ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣ̇⸌ⲟⲩ⸍ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ ·
- Transcription
- "Moise Georgios, king, papelli, being king of Dotawo" (l. 2)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲟⲩ): l. 2; (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲛ̄): l .12
king of Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣ⸌ⲟⲩ⸍): l. 2
queen mother (ⳟⲟⲛⲛⲉⲛ): l. 3
architriklinios (ⲟⲇⳡⲟⲇ ⲇⲁⲩⲉⲓⲣ): l. 3
abba (ⲡⲁⲡⲟ): l. 3
bishop of Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲗⲙⲛ̄ ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥ): ll. 4, 13
eparch of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): l. 4
domestikos of Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲛ̄ ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧ): ll. 4–5
ngeshsh of domestikos (ⲥⲁⲙⲧⲓⲛ ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 5
meizoteros (ⲇⲁⲩⲕⲁⲧⲧ): l. 6
timakkis (ⲑⲓⲙⲁⲕⲓⲍ̄ⲓ): l. 13
chief (ⲟⲩⲣⲁⲛ): l. 14
priest (⳦ⲉ): l. 15 (x2)
lector (ⲁ̇ⲛⲁ⸌ⲅ̣⸍): l. 15 (P. QI 33: ⲇⲁⲩⲧⲓⲁ̄ⲛⲁ, ‘Dautiana’; NOM 4, no. 4c: ⲇⲁⲩⲧⲓ ⲁⲛⲁ⸌ⲅ̣⸍, ‘Dauti, lector’)
deacon (ⲇⲓⲁ⸌ⲕ⸍): l. 16; (ⲇⲓⲁ⸌ⲕ⸍ⲛⲟ): l. 16
ngeshsh of Koudketi (ⲕⲟⲩⲇⲕⲉⲧⲓⲛ ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 17
'meske' of bishop (?) (ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥⲛ̄ ⲙⲉⲥⲕⲉⲗ): l. 17 (P. QI 3 33: ⲙⲉⲇⳝⲟⲩ ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥⲛ̄ ⲙⲉⲥⲕⲉⲗⲗⲟ, 'the servant of Papasi, Meskel'; corr. NOM 4, no. 4d)
great priest (⳦ⲉ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍): l. 19
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟ): l. 2
Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲗⲙⲛ︦): ll. 4, 7, 13
Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ︦): l. 4
Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥ): ll. 4–5
Koudketi (ⲕⲟⲩⲇⲕⲉⲧⲓ): l. 17
- Source
- http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/images/PQI3-32-53-59.jpg
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 3 33, pl. 2 (photo at http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/images/PQI3-32-53-59.jpg)
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Plumley 1978, passim; Osman 1982, passim; Satzinger 1995, col. 423; Adams 1996, p. 235 (translation), table 18; Edwards 2011, p. 94; Hendricx 2011, pp. 48–51; Wojciechowski 2011, passim (on prosopography of Archive 3); Ruffini 2012a, passim, esp. pp. 14–19, 248, 265–270 (generally on Archive 3); Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 222 (no. 16); NOM 4, no. 4 (on ll. 14, 15, & 17)
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