Text 2845

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
not recorded
Excavation no.
74.2.2/14
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
letter from Marturophorou, choiakishshil, to Papasa
Date
probably 1100–1199
Notes
address in Greek
Material
paper
Object dimensions
H: 10.8; W: 19.2
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
black (?)
Lines
i: 10; ii: 9
Height of letters
 
Description
roughly rectangular sheet of paper, written on both sides along longer edges; the lowermost line on side ii (address) written upside down in respect to rest of text; document originally folded six or seven times horizontally and three times vertically
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete; ink obliterated in upper right corner of side i
Date
probably 1100–1199
Chronological systems
Egyptian calendar
Dating formulae
ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲉⲗ̄ ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲉ
Transcription
"the month of Mesore" (ii, l. 4)
Months
ⲙⲉⲥⲟⲣⲉ
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
eparch (ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝ): i, l. 6; ii, l. 1
choiakishshil (ⲭⲟⲓⲁⲕⲓϣⲗ̄): ii, l. 9
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
P. QI 4 104, fig. 47
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
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Latest edition
P. QI 4 104, fig. 47
Other editions
 
Other publications
Ruffini 2012a, p. 48; Ruffini 2014a, pp. 962, 964, 968
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