Text 641
- 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 90226
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- deed of land sale by Iooshsha to Gourresi; king Simon appearing
- Date
- 31 October 1286
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
lunar day incorrect - 13 days later than Alexandrian cycle
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- H: 35; W: 73
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 10
- Height of letters
- Description
- trapezoidal piece of leather; text written along longer edges with wide lower margin
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete; obliterated in upper left corner
- Date
- 31 October 1286
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
Era of the Martyrs
lunar calendar
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲁⲑⲩ̄︤ⲣ︥̄ ·ⲇ̄·ⲗⲟ ⲟⲩⲛⲛⲁ ⲋ̣̄ ⲉ̣ⲓ̣ⲛ̣ⲛ̣̄ ⲟⲩⲕⲣ︥̄ⲁ [---ⲉⲓ]ⲛⲛ̄ ⲁⲡⲟ⸌ⲙ⸍ (ⲁⲅ̄ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ ⲥⲩⲙ̣ⲱ̄ⲛ ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲱⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲁ̄ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄
- Transcription
- "when it was Athyr 4, 6 (or 26) (day) of the moon, day [...], when it was (year) 1003 from the Martyrs, King Simon being the king of Dotawo" (ll. 1–2)
- Months
- ⲁⲑⲩ̄︤ⲣ︥̄
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 2
king of Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲱⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 2
queen mother (ⳟⲟⲛⲛⲉⲛ): l. 2
keeper of granaries (ϣⲟⲩⳟ): l. 2
any joknashi (ⲁ̣ⳡⲉ ⳝⲟⲕⲛⲁϣⲓ): l. 3
property manager (?) (ⲟⲩⲣⲧⲁϣⲉⲓ): l. 3
great scribe (ⲥⲟⲩⲧⲟⲩⲉ̇ ⲇ̣ⲁⲩⲣ): l. 3
bishop of Toungoul (= Dongola) (ⲧ̣ⲟⲩⲅⲅⲟⲗ̣ⲛ̣ ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥⲟ): ll. 3–4
eparch of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲓ ⲥⲟⳟ̣ⲟⳝ): l. 4
bishop of Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲗ̄ⲙⲛ̄ ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥ): ll. 4, 9
arapi to town (ⲇⲡ̄ⲡⲕ̄ ⲁ̣ⲣ̣ⲁ̣ⲡ̣ⲗ̄): l. 4
domestikos (ⲥⲁⲙⲉⲧⲓ): l. 7
goush of Ado (ⲁ̇ⲇⲱⲛ ⲅⲟⲩϣ): l. 9
tot of She (ϣⲉⲛ ⲧⲟⲧⲗ̄): l. 10
priest (ⲥⲟⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 10
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲱ): l. 2
Toungoul (= Dongola) (ⲧ̣ⲟⲩⲅⲅⲟⲗ̣): l. 3
Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲅⲓ): l. 4
Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲗ︦ⲙⲛ︦): l. 4
(church of) Gabriel (ⲅⲁⲃⲣⲓⲏⲗ): l. 4
(church of) Kollouthos (ⲕⲟⲗ⸌ⲗ⸍ⲑⲟⲥⲥⲛ̄ⲛⲁⲗⲟ): l. 6; (ⲕⲟⲗ⸌ⲗ⸍ⲑⲟⲥⲛ̄ⲛⲁⲗⲟ): l. 6
(church of) Merkourios of the valley (ⲡⲁⲣⲕⲛ̄ ⲙⲉⲣ⸌ⲕ⸍ⲟ̇ⲥⲗ̄ⲗⲟ): l. 8
Ado (ⲁ̇ⲇⲱ): l. 9
She (ϣⲉ): l. 10
- Latest edition
- P. QI 4 64, fig. 2
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975a, pp. 105–6, fig. 6; Plumley 1978, pp. 234–5; Łajtar 2011, p. 50; CSCN, table 41 on p. 310; Ruffini 2012a, passim; Ruffini 2013, passim, esp. pp. 183–8; Łajtar 2015b, p. 243; NOM 4, no. 17 (on names in ll. 6 and 9–10)
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