IMRef_2059: Name of Christophoria
- Attestation
- ⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲫⲟⲣⲓⲁ
- Translation
- Christophoria
- Description
- Greek female name meaning 'bearing Christ', deriving from St Christophoros; attested twice in Nubia, for 2 women
- Text
- 460
- Provenance
- Arminna
- Date
- 600–899
- Language
- Greek
- Linguistic context
- Greek
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 4
- Latest edition
-
I. Nubia Tibiletti Bruno 37
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- The gender of the deceased is doubtless, althought the redactor of the stela used masculine pronoun in the latter part of the stela (ⲧⲏⲛ ⲯⲩⲭⲏⲛ ⲁⲩⲧⲟⲩ).
- 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
- 243307: Christophoria
- Role
- commemorated deceased
- Name
- 12926: Christophoria
- Name variant
- 55665: ⲭⲣⲓⲥⲧⲟⲫⲟⲣⲓⲁ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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