IMRef_3429: Name of Thekla
- Attestation
- ⲑⲉⲕⲗⲁ
- Translation
- Thekla
- Description
- Greek female name meaning 'God's fame', deriving from the New Testament figure of a follower of Apostle Paul; attested 7 times in Nubia, only for women
- Text
- 628
- Provenance
- unknown
- Date
- 696 or 697–after 710
- Language
- Greek/Coptic
- Linguistic context
- Coptic
- Side/page
- 1
- Column
- Line
- 32
- Latest edition
-
P. Lond. Copt. 447, pp. 209–211
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- This is probably the same person as the issuer of the document.
Thekla is recorded in TM People under three numbers: 101314, 104060, and 106269.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.56: Name: foreign (Greek), female, Christian
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
-
For IMVar 1.56:
- gender: female
- religion: Christian - Person
- 101314: Thekla
- Role
- in filiation
- Name
- 9496: Thekla
- Name variant
- 53479: ⲑⲉⲕⲗⲁ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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