Text 1296
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- house 785, room 5, level 4
- Excavation no.
- 84.2.2/29 (reg. no. 84/204)
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- subliterary: magical
- Language
- Greek
- Content
- magical text with prayer for woman Aia, daughter of Amma; on side ii inscription of monogrammatic character with nomen sacrum for Jesus the Christ arranged in form of cross and initials of names of Four Living Creatures in four corners
- Date
- 1000–1199
- Notes
- dated by archaeological context
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- H: 13.5; W: 17.2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black, red
- Lines
- i: 14; ii: 3
- Height of letters
- Description
- rectangular sheet of paper; supralinear strokes above names occasionally written in red; some round letter (alpha, omikron) filled with red ink; sheet originally folded into small square; outer surface of this square inscribed and decorated with pentagram
- Decorative elements
- pentagram on side ii; use of red ink for supralinear strokes and for fill of some letters
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- 1000–1199
- Chronological systems
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Latest edition
- unpublished; partial translation in Adams 2010, pp. 210–17, pl. 44a–b
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Adams 2010, pp. 244, 305 (inventory); Hagen 2010, p. 721; Ruffini 2012a, p. 226, with n. 93
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