cathedral (church 293), nave, in dust above pavement
Excavation no.
Present location
1 & 3) unknown
2) British Museum, London
Museum no.
2) EA71303
Medium
manuscript: leaf
Technique
painted
Type of text
literary: biblical
Language
Old Nubian
Content
three leaves from a codex with Johannine works: (1) Revelation 7:15–8:8; (2) Revelation 14:6–15; (3) John 11:20-41
Date
1000–1399
Notes
photo of 2.i available at http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=379270001&objectId=110289&partId=1
three leaves from one codex; pagination preserved in upper margin of 1.ii and 2.ii
Decorative elements
State of preservation
three leaves in different state of preservation: (1) incomplete; one upper corner torn off; lower and upper margins lacking; (2) almost complete; lower margin lacking; (3) almost complete; put together from four smaller; parts of all margins preserved
Plumley 1980, pp. 34–41, figs. on pp. 35–36 (3); P. QI 1 8, pl. VII (1) + P. QI 1 9, pl. VIII (2) + P. QI 1 4, pls. III–IV (3); Browne 1989a, pp. 48–51 (3), 54–57 (1), 56–59 (2); Browne 1989f, pp. 50–56 (2); Browne 2002d, pp. 95–103 (3)
Other publications
Plumley 1975a, p. 104; Browne 1985a, pp. 292–293 (2); Browne 1989c, pp. 70–71; Browne 1992b, p. 32 (3); Browne 1992c, p. 381; Browne 1994b, pp. 11–17 (3), 54–57 (1), 57–62 (2); Browne 1995a, pp. 457–458; Browne 1996b (1 & 2); Browne 1998b, p. 117 (3); Browne 1998c, pp. 13–14 (3), 17–18 (1 & 2); Browne 2000a, p. 34 (1); Browne 2002c, p. 297 (1); Bechhaus-Gerst 2009, fig. 15 (3); Van Gerven Oei 2014, pp. 167–169 (3); Weber-Thum – Weschenfelder 2015, pp. 308–309 (1); Van Gerven Oei 2015b, passim; Łajtar 2015–2016, p. 136 (no. 121); Łajtar 2020b, Appendix no. QI31 (cf. p. 187)