Text 2842
- Provenance
- Qasr Ibrim
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- central plaza, level 4
- Excavation no.
- 72.11.9
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: letter
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- letter from Asouwl, eparch of Nobadia, to Ampapi, eparch; king David mentioned
- Date
- 1125–1175
- Notes
- address in Greek
date based on the identity of Papasa chartoularios with Papasa chartoularios from DBMNT 581, dated to 1155
- Material
- paper
- Object dimensions
- H: 18.5; W: 18.5
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- black (?)
- Lines
- i: 29; ii: 1
- Height of letters
- Description
- square sheet of paper, written on both sides; address on side ii written upside down in respect to text on side ii; document originally folded nine times horizontally and three times vertically
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete apart from lacuna in central part of right-hand margin of side i
- Date
- 1125–1175
- Chronological systems
- king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- Transcription
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): i, ll. 9, 11, 12
king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): i, ll. 9, 10–11
meizoteros (ⲇ̣ⲁⲩⲕⲁⲧⲧ): i, l. 8
chartoularios (ⲭⲁⲗ⸌ⲧ⸍): i, l. 26
notary (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲧ⸍): i, l. 26
epideacon of Tonk( ) (ⲉⲡ⸌ⲇ⸍ ⲧⲟⲛ⸌ⲕ⸍): i, l. 28
eparch of Nobadia (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟⲃⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): ii, l. 1
eparch (ⲉ̣ⲡ̣ⲁ̣ⲣ̣⸌ⲭ̣⸍): ii, l. 1 (P. QI 4 101: ‘great eparch’ [ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍ ⲉ̣ⲡ̣ⲁ̣ⲣ̣⸌ⲭ̣⸍]; corr. A. Łajtar)
kratistos (ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Kaktine North (ⲕⲁⲕⲧⲓⲛⲁ ⲕⲁⲗⲗⲉ): i, ll. 4–5
Kaka Valley (ⲕⲁⲕⲁ ⳝⲟⲩⲥ): i, l. 6
Tonk( ) (= Dongola?) (ⲧⲟⲛ⸌ⲕ⸍): i, l. 28
Nobadia (ⲛⲟⲃⲁ⸌ⲇ⸍): ii, l. 1
- Source
- P. QI 4 101, fig. 44
- Image
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- Source
- P. QI 4 101, fig. 44
- Image
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- Latest edition
- P. QI 4 101, fig. 44
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Ruffini 2013, n. 28 on p. 183; Ruffini 2014a, pp. 962, 966, 968; Ruffini 2014b, p. 222; NOM 4, no. 36 (on names in re, l. 17, and ve, l. 1)
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