Text 639
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- open courtyard of the W fortifications, in sealed jar (Archive 1)
- Excavation no.
- unknown
- Present location
- unknown, probably Egypt
- Museum no.
- EA 90232A
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- legal document of unknown contents; king Georgios Simon appearing
- Date
- 27 November 1280–26 December 1280
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
The opening of the text in line 1, where Ruffini edits ‘indistinct traces’, can be read with a relative security as [† ⲡⲁⲡⲗ̄ⲇⲉ ⲟⲛ] ⳟ̣ⲁ̣ⲗⲇ̣ⲉ ⲟⲛ̣ ⲥ̣ⲉⲩ̣ⲁ̣ⲣ̣ⲧⲟ̣ⲩ [ⳟⲥ̄ⲥ]ⲗ̣̄ⲇ[ⲉⲕⲉⲛ ⲧⲁⳟⲥⲓⲗⲟ] ⲡ̣ⲁ̣ⲣ̣[ⲧⲁⲕⲟⲛⲁ], ‘† It is written in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit’.
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- c. 20
- Height of letters
- Description
- fragment of rectangular piece of leather; text written along longer edges
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete and heavily obliterated; large lacunae in central and lower parts; only upper part partly legible
- Date
- 27 November 1280–26 December 1280
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
lunar calendar
Egyptian calendar
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- [---] ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ (ⲑ̣̄ϥ̄ⲍ̄ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ ⲟⲩⲛⲛⲁ ⲑ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ̣ [---]
[ⲅⲉ]ⲱ̣ⲣ̣ⲅ̣ⲓ̣ⲟ̣ⲥ̣ ⲥ̣ⲩ̣ⲙ̣ⲱ̣ⲛ̣ ⲡⲁ̇ⲣⲗ ⲇⲱⲧⲁⳣⳣⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ [---] - Transcription
- "when it was (year) 997 from the Martyrs, when it was 9th (day) of the moon, [when it was] Choiak [---]" (ll. 1–2)
"Georgios Simon ‘paril’ being King of Dotawo" (ll. 3–4) - Months
- ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕ̣
- Weakdays
- Feasts
Loading...
- Offices & titles
- king of Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⳣⳣⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 3
keeper of granaries (ϣ̣ⲟ̣ⲩ̣ⳟ): l. 4 (P. QI 4 70a: ̣ ̣ ̣ⳟⲁ; corr. NOM 4, no. 23a)
queen mother ([ⳟⲟⲛⲛⲉⲛ]): l. 4
any joknashi (ⲁ̣ⳡ̣ⲗ̄ ⲇⲟⲅⲛ̄ⲛⲁϣ̣ϣⲓ): l. 4
great property manager (?) (ⲟⲩⲣⲧⲁ̣ϣ̣ⲉ̣ⲓ̣ ⲇⲁⲩ̣ⲟ̣ⲓ̣ⲣ̣): l. 5
king (ⲟ̣ⲩ̣ⲣⲟⲩ): l. 5
scribe (ⲥⲟⲩⲛ[---]): l. 6 (P. QI 4 70a: ⲇ̣ⲟⲗⲗⲅⲓⲥⲟⲩⲛ, left untranslated; NOM 4, no. 23b: ⲇ̣ⲟⲗⲗⲏ ⲥⲟⲩⲛ[---], ‘Dolli, scribe [---])
bishop of Lower Silmi (= Ibrim) (?) ([ⲥⲓⲗ]ⲙ̣ⲛ̄ ⸌ⲧⲁⳣⳣⲟⲛ̣⸍ ⲡ̣ⲁ̣ⲡⲁ[ⲥ]ⲁ̣): l. 8 (P. QI 4 70a: not transcribed; read by G. Ochała on the basis of the photo)
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⳣⳣⲟ): l. 3; (ⲇ̣ⲱ̣ⲧⲁⳣⳣⲟ): l. 5
Lower Silmi (= Ibrim) (?) ([ⲥⲓⲗ]ⲙ̣ⲛ̄ ⸌ⲧⲁⳣⳣⲟⲛ̣⸍): l. 8 (P. QI 4 70a: not transcribed; read by G. Ochała on the basis of the photo)
- Latest edition
- P. QI 4 70a, fig. 8
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975a, pp. 105–6; Plumley 1978, pp. 234–5; Ruffini 2013, passim, esp. pp. 183–8; NOM 4, no. 23 (on names in ll. 3–4 & 6)
Loading...