Text 640
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- open courtyard of west fortifications, in sealed jar (Archive 1)
- Excavation no.
- unknown
- Present location
- unknown, probably Egypt
- Museum no.
- EA 90227
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- deed of land sale by Ishkil to Gourresi; king Georgoios Simon appearing
- Date
- after 1280–before 1295
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- H: 35; W: 70
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 19
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly rectangular piece of leather; text written along longer edges
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- nearly complete; small crack in left central part; minor lacunae in lower left part
- Date
- after 1280–before 1295
- Chronological systems
- king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲅ̣ⲉ̣ⲱⲣⲅⲓⲟⲩ ⲥⲩⲙⲱⲛ ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲱⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲁ̇ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄
- Transcription
- "King Georgios Simon being King of Dotawo" (l. 2)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king of Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲱⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 2
queen mother (ⳟⲟⲛⲛⲉⲛ): l. 2
keeper of granaries (ϣⲟⲩⳟ): l. 2
any joknashi (ⲁ̇ⳡⲗ̄ ⳝ̣ⲟⲕⲛⲁϣⲓ): ll. 2–3
great property manager (?) (ⲟⲩⲣⲧⲁϣⲉⲓ ⲇⲁⲩⲟⲩⲣ): l. 3
property manager (?) of Agi (ⲁ̇ⲅⲛ̄ ⲟⲩⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ϣⲉⲓ): l. 3
great scribe (ⲥⲟ̣ⲩ̣ⲛ̣ⲧⲟⲩ̣ⲉ ⲇⲁⲩⲣ): ll. 3–4
eparch of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): l. 4
chief of island (ⲁⲣⲧⲛ̄ ⲟⲩⲣ): l. 13
tot of Ase (ⲁⲥ̣ⲛ̣̄ ⲧⲟⲧⲗ̄ⲗⲟ): l. 18 (P. QI 4 65: ⲁⲥ̣ⲧ̣ⲕ̣ⲧⲗ̄ⲗⲟ; corr. G. Ochała)
tot of Ado (ⲁ̇ⲇⲱⲛ ⲧⲟⲧⲗ̄ⲗⲟ): l. 18 (P. QI 4 65: ⲁ̇ⲇⲉ̣ⲥⲛ ⲧⲟⲧⲁ̄ⲗⲟ; corr. G. Ochała)
bishop of Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥⲛ̄ ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥⲗ̄): l. 19
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲱ): l. 2
Agi (ⲁ̇ⲅⲛ̄): l. 3
Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲛ̄): l. 4
Kasa East (ⲙⲁⲧⲧⲟ ⲕⲁⲥⲁ): l. 6
(church of) Archangel Michael (ⲭ̄ⲡ̄ⲑ̄ ⲁⲅ⸌ⲅ⸍ⲗⲗⲟ): l. 8
(church of the Four Living) Creatures of the town (ⲇⲡ̄ⲡⲛ̄ ⲁ̇ⳡⲉⲗⲅⲟⲩⲛ): l. 8
(church of) Michael (ⲙⲓⲭⲁⲏⲗ̣): l. 9, 11 (x2)
(church of) Kollouthos (ⲕⲟⲗ⸌ⲗ⸍ⲑⲟⲥⲥⲓⲛ): l. 9
(church of) Peter (ⲡⲉⲧⲣⲱⲥⲛ̄): l. 10
Paras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁⲣⲁ): ll. 11, 15; (ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲥ): l. 19
(church of) Apostle (ⲁ̇ⲡⲟⲥ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲥⲛ̄): l. 12
Amikke (ⲁ̇ⲙⲕ̄ⲕⲉ): l. 12
(church of) Raphael (ⲣⲁⲫⲁⲏⲗ): l. 14
Ase (ⲁⲥ̣ⲛ̣̄): l. 18 (P. QI 4 65: ⲁⲥ̣ⲧ̣; corr. G. Ochała)
Ado (ⲁ̇ⲇⲱⲛ): l. 18 (P. QI 4 65: ⲁ̇ⲇⲉ̣ⲥⲛ; corr. G. Ochała)
- Latest edition
- P. QI 4 65, fig. 3
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975a, pp. 105–6; Plumley 1978, pp. 234–5; Łajtar 2011, p. 50; Ruffini 2012a, passim; Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, pp. 206, 211; Ruffini 2013, passim, esp. pp. 183–8; NOM 4, no. 18 (on names in ll. 4 & 9); NOM 5. no. 1 (reedition of ll. 15–19)
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