Text 628
- Provenance
- unknown
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- unknown
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- British Museum, London
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Content
- deed of land sale from Thekla to Ioseph, sailor; king Merkourios appearing
- Date
- 696 or 697–after 710
- Notes
- acquired in Aswan
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- H: 61; W: 41.3
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- i: c. 40; ii: c. 10
- Height of letters
- Description
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- Date
- 696 or 697–after 710
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ ⲕ̄︤ⲍ̄︥
ⲛⲣⲣⲟ ⲙ[ⲉⲣ]ⲕⲟⲩⲣⲟⲓⲥ - Transcription
- "Choiak 27" (l. 2)
"King Merkurios" (l. 15) - Months
- ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- sailor (ⲡⲛⲉⲉϥ): i, l. 4
king (ⲣⲣⲟ): i, l. 15
priest of (Church of) Saint Paphnutios (ⲡⲉⲡⲣⲉⲥⲧ̣ⲉⲣ[ⲟ]ⲥ ⲙⲡϩⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲡⲁⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧ̣[ⲓⲟⲥ]): i, l. 28
priest (ⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲩ/): i, l. 29; (ⲡⲣⲉⲥⲃⲩⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ): i, l. 30
exarch (ⲉⲝⲁⲣⲭⲟⲥ): i, l. last but one
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Kelsi-East (ⲧⲡⲟⲗⲓⲥ ⲕ̣ⲏⲗⲥⲉⲓ ⲙ̣ⲡ̣ⲉⲓⲃⲧ): i, l. 3
(Church of) Saint Paphnutios (ⲡϩⲁⲅⲓⲟⲥ ⲡⲁⲡⲛⲟⲩⲧ̣[ⲓⲟⲥ]): i, l. 28
- Source
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- P. Lond. Copt. 447, pp. 209–211
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Legh 1816, p. 155 (A) (fragmentary translation); Crum 1899b, p. 224; Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 212–213, 216 (no. 2); Hendrickx 2019, pp. 9–13
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