Text 2848

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
structure LC1-20, room 1, below floor 1
Excavation no.
78.3.11/50 (NI 71)
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
letter from Mase, eparch of Nobadia, to Tenyrei, eparch
Date
probably 1000–1199
Notes
address in Greek
Material
paper
Object dimensions
H: 16.5; W: 24.9
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
black
Lines
i: 10; ii: 4
Height of letters
 
Description
rectangular sheet of paper, written on both sides; address written in middle of side ii, after wide space; document originally folded seven times horizontally
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
complete; ink obliterated in places
Date
probably 1000–1199
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
eparch of Nobadia (ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟⲃ⸌ⲇ⸍): ii, l. 3
domestikos of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲇⲱ): ii, l. 3
ikshil (ⲉⲕ̄ϣⲗ̄): ii, l. 3
eparch (ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ̣⸍): ii, l. 4 (P. QI 4 107: ‘great eparch’ [ⲉ̇ⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ̣⸍ ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍]; corr. A. Łajtar)
kratistos (ⲕⲣⲁ⸌ⲧ⸍): ii, l. 4
ngeshsh ngaju (ⳟⲉ⸌ϣ̣⸍ ⳟⲁⳝ̣ⲩ̣): ii, l. 4
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Ngijow (ⳟⲓⳝⲟⳣ): i, l. 2
Silmi (= Ibrim) (ⲥⲗ̄ⲙⲓ): i, l. 2
(church of) Apostle (ⲁ̇ⲡⲟⲥⲧⲟⲗⲟⲥⲛ̄): i, l. 8
Nobadia (ⲛⲟⲃ⸌ⲇ⸍): ii, l. 3
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): ii, l. 3
Source
P. QI 4 107, fig. 50
Image
Image not available
Source
P. QI 4 107, fig. 50
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
P. QI 4 107, fig. 50
Other editions
 
Other publications
Ruffini 2012a, pp. 213–14; Ruffini 2014a, pp. 961, with n. 5, 966, 968; Ruffini 2014b, p. 224
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