DBMNT

Medium: manuscript
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: legal
Language: Old Nubian
Content: deed of land sale by Chammeti to Marturokouda; king Georgiou Basileos Dauid appearing
Date: circa 1268–before 1276
Notes: 'official Nubian protocol'

Description: trapezoidal piece of leather; text written along shorter edges
Decorative elements
State of preservation: incomplete, put together from several pieces; layout of lines disturbed on the photo, in central part

Dating formulae: :ⲟⲩⲕⲩ ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲏ ·ⲑ̄· ⲛⲛ̄: ⲟⲩⲛ ·ⲑ· ⲛ̣ⲛ̄·
ⲅⲉⲟⲣⲟⲩ ⲃⲁⲥⲓⲗⲉⲟⲥ ⲇⲁ̄ⲇ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ ⲇⲟ⸌ⲩ⸍ⲧⲁⲩⳣⲱ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲁ̇ ⲛⲛ̄
Transcription: "when it was day 19 (of the month of) Pauni, when it was 9 (day) of the moon" (l. 1)
"King Georgiou Basileos Dauid being king of Dotawo" (l. 3)
Months: ⲡⲁⲩⲛⲏ
Weakdays
Feasts

Offices & titles: king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 3
king of Dotawo (ⲇⲟ⸌ⲩ⸍ⲧⲁⲩⳣⲱ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 3
queen mother (ⳟⲟⲛⲛⲉⲛ): l. 3
keeper of granaries (ϣⲟⲩⳟ): l. 4
property manager (?) (ⲟⲩⲣⲧⲉϣϣ): l. 4
ngeshsh of Atwa (ⲁⲧⲧⲁⲩⲧⲁ ⳟ̣ⲉϣϣ): l. 5
bishop of Toungoul (= Dongola) (ⲧⲟⲩⲅⲅⲗ̄ ⲡⲁⲡⲥ): l. 5
great eparch of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲓ ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ ⲇⲁⲩⳣⲓⲣ): l. 6
meizoteros of Adauou (ⲁⲇⲇⲁⳣⲏ ⲇⲁⲩⲅⲁⲧⲧ): l. 6
deputy of eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ ⳣⲥ̄ⲕⲧ̄ⲧ): l. 7
abba (ⲁⲡⲡⲁ): l. 7
bishop of Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲉ̇ⲡⲉⲥⲕⲟⲡⲟ̣ ⲉ̣ⲫⲣⲉⲙ): l. 7
tot of Arallou Island (ⲁⲣⲁⲗⲗⲟⲩ ⲁⲣⲧⲓ ⲧⲟⲧ̣ⲓ): l. 8
vice-eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ ⲙⲁⲣⲣ): l. 8
bishop of Kourte (ⲕ̣ⲟⲩⲣ̣⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲡⲁⲡⲥ): ll. 8–9
algou (ⲁⲗⲅⲟⲩ): l. 9
ngeshsh of Koudketi (ⲕⲟⲩⲣⲕⲉⲧⲓ ⳟⲉϣϣ): l. 9 (P. QI 4 67: 'Kourketi being ngeshsh'; corr. NOM 4, no. 20b)
goush (ⲅⲟⲩϣϣ): l. 10
asti (ⲁⲥⲧⲗ̄): l. 10; (ⲁⲥ̣ⲧ̣ⲓ): l. 17
eparch (ⲥⲟⳟ̣ⲟ̣ⳝ): l. 12
kostatneti? (ⲕⲟⲥⲧⲁⲧⲛⲉⲧ̣ⲓ̣ⲗⲟ): ll. 23–4; (ⲕⲟⲥⲧⲁⲧⲛⲉ̣ⲧⲓⲗⲟ): ll. 24–5 (or anthroponym?)
tot of Slave Island (?) (ⲟ̣ϣ̣ϣ̣ⲓ̣ ⲁⲣⲧⲓ ⲧⲟⲧⲓ): ll. 26–7; (ⲟϣϣ̣ⲓ̣ ⲁⲣⲧⲓ ⲧⲟⲧⲓ): ll. 27–8

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Dotawo (ⲇⲟ⸌ⲩ⸍ⲧⲁⲩⳣⲱ): l. 3
Soulou (ⲥⲩⲣⲟⲩⳣⲓ): l. 4
Atwa (ⲁⲧⲧⲁⲩⲧⲁ): l. 5
Toungoul (= Dongola) (ⲧⲟⲩⲅⲅⲗ̄): l. 5
Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲓ): l. 6
Adauou (ⲁⲇⲇⲁⳣⲏ): l. 6
Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲉ̇ⲫⲣⲉⲙ): l. 7 (x2)
Arallou Island (ⲁⲣⲁⲗⲗⲟⲩ ⲁⲣⲧⲓ): l. 8
Kourte (ⲕ̣ⲟⲩⲣ̣⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 8
Koudketi (ⲕⲟⲩⲣⲕⲉⲧⲓ): l. 9 (P. QI 4 67: as personal name; corr. NOM 4, no. 20b)
Great Kousi (?) (ⲕⲟⲩⲥ̣ⲓ̣ ⲇⲁⲩⳣⲓⲗ): ll. 18–19; (ⲕⲟ̣ⲩⲥⲥⲏ ⲇⲁⲩⳣⲓⲗ): ll. 21–2
Koutti (?) (ⲕⲟⲩⲧⲧⲓ): l. 22
Slave Island (?) (ⲟ̣ϣ̣ϣ̣ⲓ̣ ⲁⲣⲧⲓ): ll. 26–7

Other publications: Plumley 1975a, pp. 105–106; Plumley 1978, pp. 234–235; Godlewski 1996, p. 38; Ruffini 2012a, passim; Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 206; Ruffini 2013, passim, esp. pp. 182–183; Łajtar 2015b, p. 243; Weschenfelder 2015, pp. 297–299; NOM 4, no. 20 (on names in ll. 4, 9, 10, 17, 20, 23, 24–25); Obłuski 2019, pp. 239–240

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