IMRef_2670: Name of Theophilos
- Attestation
- ⲑⲉⲱⲫ̣ⲓⲗ
- Translation
- Theophilos / Theophil / Theōphil
- Description
- Greek male name meaning 'loved by God' deriving from an Egyptian martyr under Decian; attested thrice in Nubia, twice for men, once unmarked for gender
- Text
- 1592
- Provenance
- Faras
- Date
- 600–1199
- Language
- Coptic
- Linguistic context
- Coptic
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 6
- Latest edition
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I. Faras Copt., pp. 170–1, fig. 50 (photo available at http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=366335001&objectId=124282&partId=1)
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Reading of the name corrected in NOM 1, no. 2.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.57: Name: foreign (Greek), male, Christian
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.57:
- gender: male
- religion: Christian - Person
- 602765: Theophilos
- Role
- commemorated deceased
- Name
- 5492: Theophilos
- Name variant
- 53533: ⲑⲉⲟⲫⲓⲗ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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