IMRef_2660: Name of Diol
- Attestation
- ⲇⲓⲟⲛⲛⲓ
- Translation
- Diol / Dion
- Description
- perhaps Nubian name, but etymology unknown; attested only once, unmarked for gender
- Text
- 2868
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Date
- probably 1000–1199
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Linguistic context
- Old Nubian
- Side/page
- 1
- Column
- Line
- 6
- Latest edition
-
P. QI 4 122, fig. 67
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Gender not specified.
It is uncertain how to interpret this name. I follow here Ruffini, who analyses this fomation as ⲇⲓⲟⲛ-ⲛⲓ < ⲇⲓⲟⲗ-ⲛⲓ, but other interpretations are also possible.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.100: Name: local (?) (Nubian?), unknown character
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.100:
- ethnic regional: Nubian? - Person
- 602751: Diol
- Role
- mentioned in letter
- Name
- 200775: Diol
- Name variant
- 300775: ⲇⲓⲟⲗ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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