Text 610
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
- Excavation no.
- 74.1.30/6A
- Present location
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo (?)
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: letter
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- letter from King Mouses Georgios to apa Markos III, patriarch of Alexandria, requesting ordination of one Iesou to the dignity of bishop
- Date
- 17 September 1186
- Notes
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- Height of letters
- Description
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete; slightly damaged at one edge
- Date
- 17 September 1186
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Era of the World Creation
Era of the Incarnation
Era of the Saracens
Egyptian calendar
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- Recto ('Coptic subscript')
ⲛ̄ⲥⲟⲩ ⲛ̄ⲛⲉⲃⲟⲧ ⲑⲱ̄ⲑ ⲕ̄ : ⲁ̄ⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ : ⳨ⲅ︦ :
Verso ('Second Greek subscript')
vac. ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ ⲕⲟⲥⲙⲱⲡⲟⲓⲏ̄ⲥⲁⲥ · vac. ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ ⲅⲉⲛⲏⲥ [ⲭ]ⲩ̣̄ : vac. ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ vac. ⲁ̇ⲡⲟ ⲥⲁⲣ⸌ⲕ⸍
(transcription by J. Hagen) - Transcription
- Coptic subscript: "on the 20th day of the month of Thoth, (in the year) from the Martyrs 903" (ll. 105–6)
second Greek subscript: "(in the year) from the creation of the world, (in the year) from the birth of Christ, (in the year) from the Martyrs, (in the year) from the Saracens" (ll. 7–9) - Months
- ⲑⲱ̄ⲑ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- bishop of the Tabernacle: recto, l. ?
king (ⲃ̄ⲗ̄ⲥ̄): verso, 1st Greek subscript, l. 1
king of Aruades and Makuritai and Nobades and Damalt( ) and Axumites (ⲃⲗ̄ⲥ̄ ⲏ̇ⲙⲱⲛ ⲁⲣⲟⲩⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⳤ ⲙⲁⲕⲟⲩⲣ̣⸌ⲧ⸍ ⳤ ⲛⲟⲃⲁⲇⲓⲟⲛ ⲋ ⲇⲁⲙⲁⲗ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⳤ ⲁ̇ⲝⲓⲱ̇ⲙⲁ): verso, 1st Greek subscript, ll. 10–12
archbishop (ⲁⲣⲭⲏⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍): recto, ll. 93–4
archbishop of Alexandria (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍[ⲉⲡ]ⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲡⲟⲗⲓⲥ ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲓⲁ): verso, 2nd Greek subscript, ll. 1–2
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Barbaroi: verso, 1st Greek subscript, l. ?
Aruades (ⲁⲣⲟⲩⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): verso, 1st Greek subscript, l. 10; verso, 2nd Greek subscript, l. 4
Makurites (ⲙⲁⲕⲟⲩⲣ̣⸌ⲧ⸍): verso, 1st Greek subscript, l. 10; verso, 2nd Greek subscript, l. 4
Nobades (ⲛⲟⲃⲁⲇⲓⲟⲛ): verso, 1st Greek subscript, l. 11; (ⲛⲟⲃⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): verso, 2nd Greek subscript, l. 3
Dalmatia (ⲇⲁⲙⲁⲗ⸌ⲧ⸍): verso, 1st Greek subscript, l. 11; (ⲇⲁⲗⲙⲁⲧⲓⲁⲥ): verso, 2nd Greek subscript, l. 4
Axum (ⲁⲝⲓⲱ̇ⲙⲁ): verso, 1st Greek subscript, ll. 11–12
Axumites (ⲁ︦ⲝⲓⲱ︦ⲙⲏⲧⲏⲥ): verso, 2nd Greek subscript, l. 5
Alexandria (ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲉⲓⲁ): verso, 2nd Greek subscript, l. 2
Babylon (ⲃⲁⲃⲩⲗⲱⲛ): verso, 2nd Greek subscript, l. 3
- Source
- Qasr Ibrim Archive
- Image
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- Source
- Qasr Ibrim Archive
- Image
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- Latest edition
- unpublished; translation in Adams 1996, pp. 227–9
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975b, p. 7; Plumley 1978, pp. 232, 236–8, pl. 56 (fragment); Munro-Hay 1982/3, p. 114; Łajtar 2002, pp. 171–4; Brakmann 2006, pp. 329–30; Hagen 2009, p. 117; Ochała 2009, pp. 150–1; Hagen 2010, p. 722; CSCN, pp. 142, 155–6, 157, 160; Seignobos 2015, pp. 178, 180
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