Text 2847

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
not recorded
Excavation no.
perhaps 76.3.3/12 (photo no. 76V25.31)
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Old Nubian
Content
letter from Sauroskitol (?) to Iesoua
Date
1000–1399
Notes
 
Material
paper
Object dimensions
H: 9.8; W: 11
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
black (?)
Lines
12 (a: 9 + b: 2 + c: 1)
Height of letters
 
Description
almost square sheet of paper, written on one side; address (b) written upside down above on upper margin of the text (a); between address and text of letter, one line of Arabic (c); document originally folded seven times horizontally and twice vertically
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
incomplete; left margin damaged and frayed; lower left corner lost
Date
1000–1399
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
P. QI 4 106, fig. 49
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
P. QI 4 106, fig. 49
Other editions
 
Other publications
Ruffini 2014b. p. 227
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