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Medium: manuscript
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: legal
Language: Greek/Coptic
Content: deed of handing over of a slave by Andreas the Elder to Iesousinkouda, son of Theodose; king Zacharias appearing
Date: 4 July 925
Notes: 'official Nubian protocol'

Dating formulae: ⲙⲏⲛ⸌ⲥ⸍ ⲉⲡⲏⲫ ⲓ ⲁⲡⲟ ⲇⲓⲟ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲭ̄︤ⲙ︦ⲁ̣ ϩⲣⲁⲓ̈ ϩⲛ ⲧⲙⲉϩϣⲙⲟⲩⲛ ⲛ̄ⲣⲟⲙ⸌ⲡ⸍ ⲏ̇ ⲛ̄ⲍⲁⲭⲁⲣⲓⲁⲥ ⲡ︤ⲣⲣⲟ ⲡϣⲏⲣⲉ ⲛⲅⲉⲱⲣ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲡⲣⲣⲟ
Transcription: "in the month of Epeiph, (day) 10, (in the year) from Diocletian 641, in the eighth year, 8, of King Zacharias, son of Georgios, the king" (ll. 2–4)
Months: ⲉⲡⲏⲫ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: king (ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ): ll. 3, 4, 8, 11, 12; (ⲃ︦ⲗ︦ⲥ︦): ll. 6, 9
protoeparch (ⲡⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 4
protodomestikos (ⲡⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲇⲉⲙⲓⲥⲧⲓⲕⲟⲥ): ll. 4–5
queen mother (ⲙ︦ⲏ︦ⲣ︦ ⲃ︦ⲗ︦ⲥ︦): l. 6
bishop of metropolis of Timikleos (= Dongola) (ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲙⲏⲧⲣⲟⲡⲟ⸌ⲗ⸍ ⲧⲏⲙⲩⲕⲗⲉⲱⲥ): l. 7 (Plumley: ⲉⲡⲓⲥ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲙⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ ⲡⲟ⸌ⲗ⸍ ⲧⲏⲙⲩⲕⲗⲉⲱⲥ; corr. Hagen 2010 & Łajtar 2015b)
architriklinios of king (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲧⲣⲓ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲙ̄ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ): l. 8
triklinios of protodomestikos (ⲧⲣⲓ⸌ⲕ⸍ ⲙⲡⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲇⲟ⸌ⲙ⸍): l. 8
eparch of Nobadia (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟⲃⲁⲇⲓⲁ): l. 8; (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): l. 10
meizoteros of king (ⲙⲉⲓⲍⲱ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲧⲟⲩ ⲃ︦ⲗ︦ⲥ︦): l. 9
meizoteros of protoeparch (ⲙⲉⲓⲍⲱ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲙⲡⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 10
silentiary (?) of king (ⲥⲩⲗⲉⲛⲧⲓⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲙ̄ⲡⲣⲣⲟ): l. 11
silentiary of eparch (ⲥⲩⲗⲉⲛⲧⲓⲁⲣⲓⲟⲥ ⲙⲡⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): ll. 11–12
protomeizoteros of king (ⲡⲣⲟ⸌ⲇ⸍ⲙⲉⲓ ⲙ̄ⲡⲣ̄ⲣⲟ): l. 12
protomeizoteros of eparch (ⲡⲟⲣ⸌ⲇ⸍ⲙⲉⲓⲍⲱ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲙ̄ⲡⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): l. 13
elder (ⲡϩⲗ̄ⲗⲟ): ll. 16, 22

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Nobadia (ⲛⲟⲃⲁⲇⲓⲁ): l. 8; (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): l. 10
Timikleos (= Dongola) (ⲙⲏⲧⲣⲟⲡⲟ⸌ⲗ⸍ ⲧⲏⲙⲩⲕⲗⲉⲱⲥ): l. 7

Latest edition: unpublished; mentioned in Hagen 2009, p. 117; Hagen 2010, p. 723
Other editions

Other publications: Ochała 2011b, p. 222 (no. 11); CSCN, pp. 210, 212; Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 220; Łajtar 2014b, n. 21 on p. 226; Łajtar 2015b, pp. 232–3 with n. 2, 238; Berkes 2017, p. 117, table on p. 119

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