Text 631
- 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 by Thekla to Abraam and Menanta; king Ioannes appearing
- Date
- 800–899
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
acquired in Aswan
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- H: 28; W: 22.8
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- i: 28; ii: 10
- Height of letters
- Description
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- Date
- 800–899
- Chronological systems
- king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- [ϩⲣⲁⲓ ϩ]ⲛⲧⲙⲛⲧⲉⲣⲟ ⲙⲡⲉⲛⲫⲓⲗⲟ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲣⲣⲟ ⲙ[ⲙⲁⲓⲛⲟⲩⲧⲉ] ⲓⲱϩⲁ[ⲛⲛⲏⲥ]
- Transcription
- "during the reign of our Christ-loving king [God-loving] Ioa[nnes]" (ll. 1–2)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲣⲣⲟ): i, l. 1
protodomestikos (ⲡⲣⲟ[---]ⲧⲓⲭⲟⲥ): i, l. 3
protomeizoteros (ⲡⲣⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲙⲏⲍⲓⲧⲉⲣⲟⲥ): i, l. 4
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 6
bishop of Kourte ([ⲉⲡⲓⲥⳤ] ⲛⲕⲟⲩⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): i, ll. 4–5
...mestich( ) ( ̣ ̣ⲙⲉⲥⲧⲓ⸌ⲭ⸍): i, l. 6
deacon (ⲇⲓⲁⲕ): ii, l. 10
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Kourte (ⲛⲕⲟⲩⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): i, l. 5
Kirshi (ⲕⲩⲣϣⲏ): i, ll. 9, 11
Pordippa (ⲡⲟⲣⲇⲓⲡ̣ⲁ̣): i, l. 11; (ⲡⲟⲣⲇⲓⲡⲁ): i, l. 14
Baikah (?) (ⲃⲁⲓ ⲛⲕⲁϩ): i, l. 15; (ⲃⲁⲓⲕⲁϩ): i, l. 26
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲭⲱ̣): ii, l. 9
- Source
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- P. Lond. Copt. 450, pp. 214–15
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Legh 1816, p. 156 (C) (fragmentary translation); Crum 1899b, p. 225; Griffith 1928b, pp. 16–17 (no. 5); Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, p. 49; Monneret de VIllard 1938, pp. 100–1; Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 217 (no. 4; wrongly labelled as P. Lond. Copt. 449); Werner 2013, n. 2 on p. 88; Berkes 2017, p. 116, table on p. 119; NOM 3, no. 1 (on ve, l. 6: Iose son of Peti)
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