Text 634

Provenance
unknown
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
unknown
Excavation no.
 
Present location
in 1900 in Alexandria, now unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: legal
Language
Greek/Coptic
Content
2 documents: (1) deed of land sale by Mar, son of Kosma to unidentified buyer; king Chael appearing; (2) acknowledgement of receiving clothes and wine
Date
803–812
Notes
'official Nubian protocol'
Material
leather
Object dimensions
not recorded
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
 
Lines
not recorded
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Description
no photo available
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
 
Date
803–812
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
regnal years
Era of Diocletian
Dating formulae
ⲙ̄︤ⲏ̄︥ ⲫⲁⲱⲫⲏ … (from Diocletian) ⲫⲕ ̣ … ϩⲛ̄ ⲧⲙϩⲙⲛⲧ ̣ ̣ ̣ ̣ ⲛⲣⲟⲙⲡⲉ ⲙⲡⲉⲛⲫⲓⲗⲟ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛ̄ⲣⲣⲟ ⲭⲁⲏⲗ
Transcription
"in the month of Phaophi, (in the year) from Diocletian 52[.]. ... In the ...teenth year of our Christ-loving king Chael" (ll. ?)
Months
ⲫⲁⲱⲫⲏ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
king (ⲣⲣⲟ): i, l. ?; ii, l. ?
pr[---]kallagouleia (ⲡⲣ[---]ⲕⲁⲗ̣ⲗ̣ⲁⲅⲟⲩⲗⲉⲓⲁ): i, l. ?
protodomestikos of palace (ⲡⲣⲱ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲇⲱⲙⲉⲥ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲙⲡⲁⲗⲗⲁ): i, l. ?
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): i, l. ?
bishop of Kourte (ⲏⲡⲓⲥⲕⲱⲡⲟⲥ ⲛ̄ⲕⲟⲩⲣⲉ): i, l. ?
illustris (?) (ⲓ̣ⲗ̣ⲗ̣): i, l. ?
protomeizoteros of palace (ⲡⲣⲱⲙⲓⲍ[ⲱ ⲙⲡⲁⲗⲗⲁⲧⲓⲟⲛ]): i, l. ?
primikerios (ⲡⲣⲓⲙ ̣ ̣ⲅⲓⲣⲟⲥ): i, l. ?
eparch of Nobadia (ⲁⲓⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲟⲥ ⲛⲟⲃⲁⲧⲓⲁ): i, l. ?
meizoteros of Nobadia (ⲙ̄ⲙⲓⲍⲟ ⲛ̄ⲛⲟⲃⲁⲧⲓ⸌ⲁ⸍): i, l. ?
mon( ) (ⲙⲱⲛ/): recto, l. ?
epitropos of bishop of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲉⲡⲓⲧⲣⲟⲡⲟⲥ ⲛ̄ⲡⲉⲡⲓⲥⳤ ⲛ̄ⲡ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲁⲣⲁⲥ): ii, l. ?
notary (ⲡⲛⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍/): ii, l. ?
priest (ⲡⲣ︦ⲉ): ii, l. ?, (⳦): ii, l. ?
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Kourte (ⲕⲟⲩⲣⲉ): i, l. ?
Nobadia (ⲛⲟⲃⲁⲧⲓⲁ): i, l. ?; (ⲛⲟⲃⲁⲧⲓ⸌ⲁ⸍): i, l. ?
Mohondi (= Ikhmindi) (ⲙⲱϩⲱⲛⲇⲓ): i, l. ?; (ⲙⲱϩⲟⲇⲓ): ii, l. ?
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲁⲣⲁⲥ): ii, l. ?
Ashashil (ⲁϣⲁϣⲗ̣): ii, l. ?
(Church) of Apo (?) at Mohondi (= Ikhmindi) (ⲧⲟⲩ ⲁⲅⲓⲩ ⲕⲁ⸌ⲑ⸍ ⲁⲡⲱ ⲙⲱϩⲟⲇⲓ): ii, l. ?
Koupanni/Koupandi (ⲕⲟⲩⲡⲁⲛⲇⲓ): ii, l. ?
Source
 
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Latest edition
unpublished; fragmentary translation in Krall 1900, pp. 236–8
Other editions
 
Other publications
Griffith 1928b, pp. 15–16 (no. 2); I. Faras Copt., pp. 74–5; Munro-Hay 1982/3, p. 103; Hägg 1990, pp. 162, 163; CSCN, p. 210; Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 219 (no. 10; wrongly identified with CPR IV 28 [DBMNT 636]; names of parties mistaken); Berkes 2017, pp. 115–16, table on p. 119
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