IMRef_3395: Name of Papasi
- Attestation
- ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥⲛ̄
- Translation
- Papasil / Papasi
- Description
- Greco-Nubian name meaning 'bishop'; attested 9 times, none marked for gender
- Text
- 591
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Date
- probably 1155–circa 1180
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Linguistic context
- Old Nubian
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 18
- Latest edition
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P. QI 3 33, pl. 2 (photo at http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/images/PQI3-32-53-59.jpg)
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- Gender not specified.
It is uncertain whether ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥⲛ̄ designates here the proper name Papasi (thus Browne) or the office 'bishop'. The latter meaning seems a little more proable here on the account of the occurrence of the same word in the previous entry, where we find, most proably, one Medjou, 'meske' of the bishop (Ref 701229). If such an assumption is probable, Eionngoka would be another woman fathered by a bishop in Nubia; the other ones being Papsine a.k.a. Doulista (Refs 701308 & 702792) and Iesousiko (Ref 703138).
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.108: Name: local (Greco-Nubian), Christian
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.108:
- religion: Christian
- ethnic regional: Nubian - Person
- 601229: Papasi
- Role
- in filiation
- Name
- 201822: Papasil
- Name variant
- 301829: ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥ-
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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