Text 1043
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 177, room 2, in jar beneath floor (Archive 3)
- Excavation no.
- NI 74.1.30.6(17)
- Present location
- Coptic Museum, Cairo (?)
- Museum no.
- 117, 118, or 129 (?)
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: letter
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- letter from Alpha, priest, to Mashshouda
- Date
- 1100–1199
- Notes
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- H: 13.2; W: 8.0
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- i: 7; ii: 6
- Height of letters
- Description
- fragment of rectangular sheet of paper; oroginally folded into small rectangle along 3 horizontal and at least 3 vertical lines; lower part of side ii left uninscribed
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- incomplete; broken off along one of vertical lines of folding
- Date
- 1100–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- priest (⳦ⲉ): i, l. 7
tot of Sai (ⲍ̣ⲁⲉⲛ̄ ⲧⲟⲧ): ii, l. 5 (P. QI 3 59: ⲧⲁⲉⲛ̄ ⲧⲟⲧ, ‘tot of Taei’; corr. NOM 4, no. 13b)
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Taei (ⲧⲁⲉⲛ︦): ii, l. 5 – GHOST TOPONYM
Sai (ⲍ̣ⲁⲉⲛ̄): ii, l. 5 (P. QI 3 59: ⲧⲁⲉⲛ̄ ⲧⲟⲧ, ‘tot of Taei’; corr. NOM 4, no. 13b)
- Source
- http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/images/PQI3-32-53-59.jpg
- Image
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- Source
- Image
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 3 59 (photo at http://www.medievalnubia.info/dev/images/PQI3-32-53-59.jpg)
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Plumley 1975b, pp. 6–7, pl. 2.1; Browne 1998c, p. 24; Khalil – Müller 1999, p. 21; Wojciechowski 2011, passim (on prosopography of Archive 3); Ruffini 2012a, passim, esp. pp. 14–19, 265–270 (generally on Archive 3); Ruffini 2014b, p. 222; NOM 4, no. 13 (on ve, ll. 4 & 5)
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