Text 609
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- under floor of Late Christian house
- Excavation no.
- 72.10.24/13
- Present location
- Coptic Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- fragment of protocol of official letter, mentioning king Georgios
- Date
- 29 September 1071–27 August 1072
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
the designation of the era in lacuna
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- H: 7.5; W: 7
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 9
- Height of letters
- Description
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- probably a quarter (upper right corner) of original preserved
- Date
- 29 September 1071–27 August 1072
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Era of the Saracens
Era of Diocletian
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- [--- ⲯ]ⲡ︦ⲏ̄︥ : ⲁ̄ⲡⲟ ⲥⲁⲣⲁ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲩ̄ⲝ︦ⲇ̄︥ : [--- ⲡⲙⲁⲓ]ⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲅⲉⲱⲣ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲃⲗ︦ⲥ̄︥ ⲉϥⲟ
(transcription by J. Hagen) - Transcription
- "[in the year from the Martyrs/Diocletian 7]88, (in the year) from the Saracens 464, when the God-loving king Georgios was [---]" (ll. 2–3)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲃ︦ⲗ︦ⲥ︦): l. 3
protodomestikos of palace (ⲡⲣⲱ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲇⲱ⸌ⲙ⸍ ⲉⲡⲡⲁⲗⲗⲁⲧⲓ): l. 5
domestikos of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲇⲱ⸌ⲙ⸍ ⲙ̄ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 7
meizoteros (ⲙⲉⲓ⸌ⲍ⸍): l. 8 (ed. pr. 'ⲙⲉⲓ⸌ⲍ⸍ⲇⲱ⸌ⲙ⸍ as forming one tile, 'meizodomestikos'; corr. A. Łajtar)
domestikos (ⲇⲱ⸌ⲙ⸍): l. 8 (ed. pr. 'ⲙⲉⲓ⸌ⲍ⸍ⲇⲱ⸌ⲙ⸍ as forming one tile, 'meizodomestikos'; corr. A. Łajtar)
vice-eparch of Terpekkil ([ⲁⲛ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲉ]ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲧⲉⲣ⸌ⲡ⸍): l. 9
exarch (ⲉⲝⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 9 (ed. pr. 'eparch'; corr. J. Hagen)
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- kastron of Philae (ⲧⲕⲁⲥⲧⲣⲟⲛ ⲙ︦ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ): l. 4
Philae (ⲡⲓⲗⲁⲕ): l. 4
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ): l. 7
Terpekkil (ⲧⲉⲣ⸌ⲡ⸍): l. 9
- Latest edition
- Plumley 1981, pp. 5–8
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Hägg 1990, p. 163; CSBE(2), p. 85, n. 122; Hagen 2009, p. 117; Ochała 2009, pp. 149–50; Hagen 2010, pp. 722–3; CSCN, pp. 140, 155, 160–1; Werner 2013, pp. 109–10, with n. 28; Łajtar 2014b, p. 226 with n. 26
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