Text 643
- 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 90230
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- deed of land inheritance (?) of Rali; king Siti appearing
- Date
- 10 December 1333
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- H: 35; W: 54
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 14
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly rectangular piece of leather; text written along longer edges with wide margin in lower part
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete but obliterated in places
- Date
- 10 December 1333
- Chronological systems
- Era of the Martyrs
Egyptian calendar
lunar calendar
day of the week
king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲁⲡⲟ⸌ⲙ⸍ (ⲁⲛ̄· ⲉⲛ̄ⲛ̄ⲁ· ⲭⲟⲓ⸌ⲕ⸍ⲕⲁ ⲓ̄ⲇ̄ ⲉⲛ̄ⲛⲛ̄ ⲟⲩⲛⲛⲁ· ̣ ̣ ̣ ⲅ̄· ⲉⲛ̄ⲛⲛ̄ ⲟⲩⲕⲣ̄ⲣⲁ ⲙⲥ̄ⲥⲉⳟⲟⲁ̣̇ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ ⲥⲓⲧⲓ ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲁ̇ ⲉⲓⲛⲛ̄
- Transcription
- "when it was (year) 1050 from the Martyrs, when it was Choiak 14, when it was the .3rd (day) of the moon, when it was the day of the Small Fast (= Wednesday), King Siti being King of Dotawo" (ll. 2–3)
- Months
- ⲭⲟⲓ⸌ⲕ⸍ⲕⲁ
- Weakdays
- ⲟⲩⲕⲣ̄ⲣⲁ ⲙⲥ̄ⲥⲉⳟⲟ
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): ll. 3, 9
king of Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): l. 3
keeper of granaries (ϣⲟⲩⳟⲓⲣ): l. 3
queen mother (ⳟⲟⲛⲛⲉⲛ): l. 4
any joknashi (ⲁ̇ⳡ ⳝⲟⲕⲛⲁϣⲓ): l. 4
property manager (?) (ⲟⲩⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ϣⲉⲓ): l. 4
great scribe (ⲥⲟⲩⲛ ⲇⲁⲩⲣ): l. 5
triklinios (ⲟⲣⳡⲟⲣ): l. 5
epistolary scribe (ⲉ̇ⲡⲟⲗⲛ̄ ⲥⲟⲩⲛⲧⲟⲩⲉ̇): ll. 5–6
ngeshsh of Atwa (ⲁ̇ⲧⲟⲩⲁ ⳟⲉϣⲉⲓ̣): l. 6
bishop of Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲗ̄ⲙⲛ̄ ⲡⲁⲡ̣ⲥ): ll. 6–7
meizoteros (?) of Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲗ̄ⲙⲛ̄ ⲇⲁⲩ ̣ ̣ ̣): l. 7
get (?) (ⲅⲉⲧ̣ⲗ̣̄): l. 8
ikshil (ⲉⲕ̣̄ϣ̣ⲓ̣): l. 10
tot of Ket (?) (ⲕⲉⲧⲛ ⲧⲟⲧ): l. 11
tot of Amgo (ⲁⲙⲅⲟⲛ ⲧⲟⲧ): l. 11
tot of Apati (?) (ⲁ̣̇ⲡⲁⲧⲓ ⲧⲟⲧⲗⲟ): l. 12 (or 'son of Apati; P. QI 4 68: ⳝ̣ⲉ̣ⲙ̣ⲉⲗ̣ⲏⲙⲁⲧⲓ ⲧⲟⲧⲗⲟ, ‘Jemelēmati (?), the ‘tot’’; NOM 4, no. 21c: ⲁ̣̇ ̣ⲕ̣ⲓ̣ⲉⲡⲏ ⲁ̣̇ⲡⲁⲧⲓ ⲧⲟⲧⲗⲟ, ‘A.kiepi, tot/son of Apati[?]’)
priest (ⲥⲟⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): l. 13
tot of ..me ( ̣ ̣ⲙⲉⲛ ⲧⲟⲧ): l. 13
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Dotawo (ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⲟ): l. 3
Atwa (ⲁ̇ⲧⲟⲩⲁ): l. 6
Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲗ̄ⲙⲛ̄): ll. 6, 7
Keti (?) (ⲕⲉⲧ): l. 11
Amgo (ⲁⲙⲅⲟ): l. 11
Apati (?) (ⲁ̣̇ⲡⲁⲧⲓ): l. 12 (or an anthroponym: P. QI 4 68: ⳝ̣ⲉ̣ⲙ̣ⲉⲗ̣ⲏⲙⲁⲧⲓ ⲧⲟⲧⲗⲟ, ‘Jemelēmati (?), the ‘tot’’; NOM 4, no. 21c: ⲁ̣̇ ̣ⲕ̣ⲓ̣ⲉⲡⲏ ⲁ̣̇ⲡⲁⲧⲓ ⲧⲟⲧⲗⲟ, ‘A.kiepi, tot/son of Apati[?]’)
..me ( ̣ ̣ⲙⲉ): l. 13
- Latest edition
- P. QI 4 68, fig. 6
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975a, p. 106; Plumley 1978, pp. 234–5; Plumley 1981, p. 6, n. [*]; Łajtar 2011, p. 49; Ruffini 2012a, passim; Ruffini 2013, passim, esp. pp. 188–90; Seignobos 2015, p. 184; NOM 4, no. 21 (on names in ll. 7, 10–11, 12)
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