DBMNT

Medium: manuscript
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: legal
Language: Greek/Coptic
Content: deed of land sale by Menanta, daughter of Mariham and Ananias to their son Abraam and his wife Menanta; king Ioannes appearing
Date: 800–899
Notes: 'official Nubian protocol'
acquired in Aswan

Dating formulae: ϩⲣⲁⲓ ϩⲛⲧⲙⲛⲧⲉⲣⲟ ϩⲛⲧϣⲟⲣⲡ ⲛⲣⲟⲙⲡⲉ ⲙⲡⲉⲛⲫⲓⲗⲟ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲡⲣⲣⲟ ⲙⲙⲁⲓⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ ⲓⲱϩⲁⲛⲛⲏⲥ
Transcription: "in the first year of Christ-loving king God-loving Ioannes" (ll. 1–2)
Months
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: king (ⲡⲣⲣⲟ): i, l. 2
protoeparch (?) (ⲡⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲙ̣ⲡⲁ̣⸌ⲭ̣⸍): i, l. 3
protodomestikos (ⲡⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲙⲉⲥⲧⲓⲭⲟ̣ⲥ): i, l. 3
protomeizoteros (ⲡⲣⲟⲧⲟⲙⲏⲍⲓⲧⲉ̣ⲣⲟⲥ): i, l. 4
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): i, l. 6
bishop of Kourte (ⲉⲡⲓⲥⳤ ⲛⲕⲟⲩⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): i, ll. 6–7
moistil.....ra (ⲙⲟ̣ⲓⲥⲧⲓⲗ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ⲣⲁ): i, ll. 8–9
...arch( ) ( ̣ ̣ ̣ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): i, ll. 9–10
deacon (ⲇⲓⲁⳤ): ii, l. 9

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Ethiopians (ⲛⲑⲟⲟⲡⲉ): i, l. 4
Tilimauara (ⲧⲓⲗⲓⲙⲁⲩⲁⲣⲁ): i, l. 5
kastron of Philae (ⲡⲕⲁⲥⲧⲣⲟⲛ ⲙⲡⲉ̣ⲓⲗⲁⲕ): i, l. 5
Philae (ⲡⲉ̣ⲓⲗⲁⲕ): i, l. 5
Kourte (ⲛⲕⲟⲩⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): i, l. 7
Kirshi (ⲕⲩⲣϣⲏ): i, l. 11; ([ⲕⲩⲣ]ϣ̣ⲏ): i, l. 13
Pordippa (ⲡⲟⲣⲇⲓⲡⲡⲁ): i, ll. 13–14

Other publications: Legh 1816, pp. 155–6 (B) (fragmentary translation); Crum 1899b, pp. 224–5; Griffith 1928b, p. 16 (no. 4); Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 49; Monneret de Villard 1938, pp. 100–1; Munro-Hay 1982/3, p. 103; CSCN, p. 210; Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 218 (no. 5; wrongly labelled as P. Lond. Copt. 450); Werner 2013, n. 2 on p. 88; Seignobos 2015, p. 182; Ochała 2016b, p. 517 with n. 11; Berkes 2017, p. 116, table on p. 119

Text 630