IMRef_1368: Name of Marturophorou
- Attestation
- ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲫⲟⲣⲟⲩ
- Translation
- Marturophoros / Mart( )phorou
- Description
- Greek male name meaning 'the one who bears the martyr'; attested 12 times, 7 of which for men, the remaining ones unmarked for gender
- Text
- 1048
- Provenance
- Sabagura
- Date
- 900–1499
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Linguistic context
- Old Nubian
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 2
- Latest edition
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Donadoni 1962, p. 94 (no. b), pl. 29.3–4
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Łajtar in I. Khartoum Greek 6, comm. to ll. 6–7, suggested, on account of the rarity of the name, that this person may be identical with Bishop Marturophoros who died AD 1159 (Refs 701305 and 702613). However, given the evidence of DBMNT 501 dated to AD 1046, where a certain Martyrophors is mentioned as the father of Iesou (Ref 701527), this argument can no longer hold.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.115: Name: local (Greek), male, Christian
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.115:
- gender: male
- religion: Christian
- ethnic regional: Nubian - Person
- 601403: Marturophorou
- Role
- author
- Name
- 200121: Marturophoros
- Name variant
- 301511: ⲙⲁⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲫⲟⲣⲟⲩ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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