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Text 2233
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Trismegistos
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text 370750
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Provenance
Gebel Adda
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
citadel, G-5
Excavation no.
66:2:217
Present location
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Museum no.
ROM acc. no. 973.24.936
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
letter from Marianou, eparch of Nobadia, to Mena, vice-eparch
Date
circa 1050–before 1092
Notes
address in Greek
Material
paper
Object dimensions
H: 6; W: 18
Text dimensions
Object colour
cream
Text colour
black
Lines
i: 5; ii: 1
Height of letters
0.3–1.4
Description
rectangular piece of paper written on both sides; originally folded 4 times along longer edge
Decorative elements
State of preservation
almost complete; one upper corner lost
Date
circa 1050–before 1092
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Offices & titles
archnotary (ⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ⲛⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍): i, l. 5
chartoularios (ⲭⲁⲗ⸌ⲧ⸍): i, l. 5
eparch of Nobadia (ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟⲃⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): ii, l. 1
vice-eparch (ⲁⲛ⸌ⲧ⸍ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): ii, l. 1
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Nobadia (ⲛⲟⲃⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): ii, l. 1
Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Source
Łajtar 2014c, pl. 14
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
Łajtar 2014c, pp. 956–8, pl. 14
Other editions
Other publications
Millet 1967, p. 59; Leclant 1969, p. 280; Łajtar 2014e, p. 194
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