house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
Excavation no.
NI 74.1.30.6(19)
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
letter from Mashshouda, lord of elders, to Marigaji
Date
1100–1199
Notes
address in Greek
Material
parchment
Object dimensions
H: 22.0; W: 7.8
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
black
Lines
i: 7; ii: 1
Height of letters
Description
irregular piece of leather; originally folded along 3 horizontal line
Decorative elements
State of preservation
complete; ink obliterated in places
Date
1100–1199
Chronological systems
Dating formulae
Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts
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Offices & titles
bishop (ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥ): i, l. 1 lord of elders (ⲅⲟⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⳟⲟ⸌ⲇ⸍): ii, l. 1 (P. QI 3 53: ⲅⲟⲣ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲇ̄ⲟ̄, 'elder [?] of the domestikos'; corr. A. Łajtar [see Nubian BL])
P. QI 3 53, pl. 6 (side i; side ii at http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/images/P.QI_3-53-62.jpg)
Other editions
Other publications
Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; 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)