Text 1030
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
- Excavation no.
- NI 74.1.30.6(25)
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: letter
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- letter from Tamsi, eparch of Nobadia, to Mashshouda
- Date
- 1100–1199
- Notes
- address in Greek
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- H: 24.5; W: 7.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- i: 4; ii: 1
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular sheet of paper; originally folded into small rectangle along 1 horizontal line and series of vertical ones; lower part of side i left uninscribed; line on side one (address) written upside down in respect to the main text
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete; one corner torn off but not affecting the text
- Date
- 1100–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): i, l. 1
gis (?) (ⲅⲓⲥⲗ̄): i, l. 4
eparch of Nobadia (ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): ii, l. 1 (P. QI 3 45: ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍ ⲕ⸌ⲁ⸍ⲧ⸌ⲱ⸍, ‘eparch of Lower Nobadia’; G. Ochała: ⲧⲱ stands for the Greek τῷ, the meaning of ⲕ⸌ⲁ⸍ is unknown)
elder (ⲅⲟⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Nobadia (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): ii, l. 1 (P. QI 3 45: ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍ ⲕ⸌ⲁ⸍ⲧ⸌ⲱ⸍, ‘eparch of Lower Nobadia’; G. Ochała: ⲧⲱ stands for the Greek τῷ, the meaning of ⲕ⸌ⲁ⸍ is unknown)
- Source
- http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/images/PQI3-61-46-43.jpg
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 3 46, pl. 5 (photo at http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/images/PQI3-61-46-43.jpg)
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Plumley 1978, p. 241; Browne 1996d, p. 131; Browne 1998c, p. 24; Hendricx 2011, pp. 44–46; Wojciechowski 2011, passim (on prosopography of Archive 3); Ruffini 2012a, passim, esp. pp. 14–19, 265–70 (generally on Archive 3); Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 211; Ruffini 2014a, pp. 966–967
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