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TrismegistosTM text 141644

Provenance: unknown
Region: unknown
Findspot: unknown
Excavation no.
Present location: Ägyptisches Museum/Papyrussammlung, Berlin
Museum no.: P. 11277

Medium: manuscript
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: legal
Language: Greek/Old Nubian
Content: deed of land sale by Ionngoka to Iesou, his son; king Dauid appearing
Date: probably 1132–1155
Notes: 'official Nubian protocol'

Material: leather
Object dimensions: H: 32; W: 22
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Lines: 23
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Date: probably 1132–1155
Chronological systems: king's occurrence

Dating formulae: ⲇ̄︤ⲁ︦ⲇ̄︥ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄ ⲧⲉⲉⲓⲧⲓ [ⲅⲉⲛⲕⲟ]ⲗ · ⲇⲟⲧⲁⲩⲟ̣ⲛ · ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲁ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ ·
Transcription: "King David, who has a good hope, being king of Dotawo" (ll. 2–3)
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Offices & titles: king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄): l. 2
king of Dotawo (ⲇoⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 3
queen mother (ⳟⲟⲛⲛⲉⲛ): l. 4
eparch of Nobadia (ⲙ[ⲓ]ⲅⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⳟ): ll. 4–5
domestikos of Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁ ︦ ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧ): l. 5
vice-eparch of Terpekkil ... (ⲧⲉⲣⲡⲉⲕⲕⲗ̄ [ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ⲥ]ⲟⳟⲟⳝⲓⲙⲁⲣ): ll. 6–7
goush of K....ija (ⲕ[ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣]ⲓⳝⲁ .︦ ⲅⲟⲩϣ): ll. 7–8
priest of Dirr (ⲇⲟⲩⲣⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⲣⲧⲟ): ll. 14, 16

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Dotawo (ⲇoⲧⲁⲩⲟ): l. 3
Nobadia (ⲙ[ⲓ]ⲅⲛ︦): ll. 4–5
Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁ ︦): l. 5
Terpekkil (ⲧⲉⲣⲡⲉⲕⲕⲗ︦): l. 6
K...ija (ⲕ[....]ⲓⳝⲁ .︦): ll. 7–8
Dirr (ⲇⲟⲩⲣⲛ︦): ll. 14, 16

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Bibliography & list of abbreviations

Latest edition: Browne 1992a, pp. 454–8
Other editions: Griffith 1913, pp. 53–5; Zyhlarz 1928, pp. 188–9; Khalil 1990, pp. 267–71

Other publications: Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 101; Monneret de Villard 1938, pp. 117, 141; Plumley 1978, pp. 239–40; Munro-Hay 1982/3, p. 131; Browne 1989b, pp. 216–19; Browne 1998c, p. 25; Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 227 (no. 31)