IMRef_701: Name of Martha
- Attestation
- ⲙⲁⲣⲑⲁ
- Translation
- Martha
- Description
- Aramaic female name meaning 'mistress', deriving from Martha of Bethany, follower of Jesus
- Text
- 389
- Provenance
- Sakinya
- Date
- 700–999
- Language
- Coptic
- Linguistic context
- Coptic
- Side/page
- Column
- Line
- 10
- Latest edition
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I. Sakinya Pernigotti 19, pl. 15.2
Bibliography & list of abbreviations - Comment
- The redactor of the text uses the feminine adjective (ⲧⲙⲁⲕⲁⲣⲓⲁ) and pronoun (ⲙⲛⲟϫⲥ) in referring to the deceased Martha. However, once he also employs, apparently mistakenly, the masculine form ⲁϥⲙⲧⲁⲛ.
- Identity marker
- IM 1: Name
- Identity marker variant
- IMVar 1.40: Name: foreign (Aramaic), female, Christian
- Second identity marker variant
- Identities revealed
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For IMVar 1.40:
- gender: female
- religion: Christian - Person
- 600691: Martha
- Role
- commemorated deceased
- Name
- 10510: Martha
- Name variant
- 54288: ⲙⲁⲣⲑⲁ
- Second name
- Second name variant
- Source
- Image
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