DBMNT

Medium: manuscript
Technique: painted
Type of text: document: legal
Language: Old Nubian
Content: deed of land sale and cession issued by Pongita, Persi, and Ngonnen to Mashshouda
Date: 1150–1199
Notes: text on side i of this document concerns the same land (DBMNT 582)

Offices & titles: choiakishshil (ⲭⲟⲓⲁ̄ⲕ̄ϣϣⲓ): l. 6
tot of Sai (ⲍⲁⲏⲛ ⲧⲟⲧⲗ̄): l. 9
abba (ⲡⲁⲡⲟ): l. 11
bishop of Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲫⲣ̄ⲙ̄ ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥ): ll. 11–12
priest (⳦): ll. 12, 13, 14, 17
ouataphil (ⲟⲩⲁⲧⲁⲫⲗ̄): l. 12
timakkis (ⲧⲓⲙⲁⲕⲕⲓⲥ): l. 13
deacon (ⲇⲓⲁ⸌ⲕ⸍): ll. 13, 14
arapil (ⲁ̇ⲣⲁⲡⲗ̄): l. 16
priest of Dirr (ⲇⲟⲩⲣⲛ̄ ⳦): l. 18 (P. QI 3 34 (ii): ⲡⲉⲛⲧⲁⲇⲟⲩⲣⲛ̄ ⳦ⲗⲟ, ‘Pentadourin, Priest’; NOM 4, no. 6b: ⲡⲉⲛⲧⲁ ⲇⲟⲩⲣⲛ̄ ⳦ⲗⲟ, ‘Penta, priest of Dirr’)
great priest (⳦ ⲇⲁⲩⲉⲗ̄): ll. 22–3

Toponyms & ethnonyms: Sai (ⲍⲁⲏ): l. 9
Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲫⲣ̄ⲙ̄): l. 11
(Church of) Jesus of the Mountain (ⳟⲁⳝⳝⲓⲛ ⲓⲥ̄ⲥⲓ): l. 18
Dirr (ⲇⲟⲩⲣⲛ̄): l. 18 (P. QI 3 34 (ii): ⲡⲉⲛⲧⲁⲇⲟⲩⲣⲛ̄ ⳦ⲗⲟ, ‘Pentadourin, Priest’; NOM 4, no. 6b: ⲡⲉⲛⲧⲁ ⲇⲟⲩⲣⲛ̄ ⳦ⲗⲟ, ‘Penta, priest of Dirr’)

Other publications: Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Łajtar 1992a, pp. 123–4 (no. 4); Satzinger 1995, col. 423; Browne 1998c, pp. 22–3; Łajtar – Van der Vliet 1998, p. 45 (no. 3); Łajtar 2006a, p. 98; Wojciechowski 2011, passim (on prosopography of Archive 3); Ruffini 2012a, passim, esp. pp. 14–19, 265–70 (generally on Archive 3); Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, pp. 213–14, 222 (no. 18); NOM 4, no. 6 (on ll. 17 & 18–19)

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