IMRef_1486: Name of Heleni
- Attestation
- [ϩⲉ]ⲗⲉⲛⲏ
- Translation
- Helene / Heleni / Helenē
- Description
- Greek female name meaning 'torch' or 'corposant' or related to 'moon', deriving from mother of Emperor Constantine; attested 6 times in Nubia, only for women
- Text
- 567
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Date
- 800–999
- Language
- Coptic
- Linguistic context
- Coptic
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 2–3
- Latest edition
-
Richter 2013, pp. 138–9 (no. 63), pl. 33
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- The redactor of the text once mistakenly refers to the deceased Helene with the masculince pronoun (ⲙⲙⲟϥ in l. 4).
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.56: Name: foreign (Greek), female, Christian
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.56:
- gender: female
- religion: Christian - Person
- 601529: Heleni
- Role
- commemorated deceased
- Name
- 4445: Helene
- Name variant
- 52420: ϩⲉⲗⲉⲛⲏ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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