house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
Excavation no.
NI 74.1.30.6(12)
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
letter from Nad( ), eparch of Nobadia (?), to Mashshouda
Date
1100–1199
Notes
address in Greek
Material
paper
Object dimensions
H: 14.0; W: 7.5
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
black
Lines
i: 8; ii: 1
Height of letters
Description
roughly rectangular sheet of paper, with irregular side margins; text on side ii (address) writen by 2nd hand upside down in respect to the main text; originally folded along two vertical lines
Decorative elements
State of preservation
complete; put together from three fragments broken along lines of folding
Date
1100–1199
Chronological systems
Dating formulae
Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts
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Offices & titles
eparch (ⲥⲟ⸌ⳟ⸍): i, l. 1 king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄): i, l. 2 eparch of Nobadia (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): ii, l. 1
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Magal (?) (ⲙⲁⲅⲁⲕⲕⲁ): i, l. 7 Nobadia (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): ii, l. 1
Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Browne 1996d, pp. 129–130, 131; Browne 1998c, pp. 24, 28; Hendricx 2011, pp. 44–46; Wojciechowski 2011, passim (on prosopography of Archive 3); Ruffini 2012a, passim, esp. pp. 14–19, 265–270 (generally on Archive 3); Nubian Berichtigungsliste (http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/index.php/Nubian_Berichtigungsliste)