IMRef_2646: Name of Medjou
- Attestation
- ⲙⲉⲇⳝⲟⲩ
- Translation
- Medjou
- Description
- Nubian name meaning 'slave, servant'; attested 4 times, none securely marked for gender
- Text
- 2792
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Date
- 1100–1199
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Linguistic context
- Old Nubian
- Side/page
- 1
- Column
- Line
- 6
- Latest edition
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P. QI 4 72, figs. 12–13
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Gender is uncertain.
The phrase ⲥⲉⲙⲛⲓ̈ ⲁ̇ⲥⲗ̄ following the name can be interpreted twofold: (1) as a patronymic, that is 'daughter of Sem' (thus Ruffini), or (2) as a designation of an office, that is 'as of Semna'.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.147: Name: local (Nubian), non-religious
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.147:
- ethnic regional: Nubian - Person
- 602736: Medjou
- Role
- person on list
- Name
- 201564: Medjou
- Name variant
- 301564: ⲙⲉⲇⳝⲟⲩ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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