Text 2853

Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
house 763, room 8, west end, floor level 3–4 (Israel's Archive)
Excavation no.
82.2.10/69
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Greek/Old Nubian
Content
letter from Enakissil, mother of eparch, to Israel, eparch of Nobadia and domestikos of Pachoras
Date
1000–1399
Notes
address in Greek
Material
paper
Object dimensions
not recorded
Text dimensions
 
Object colour
 
Text colour
black (?)
Lines
i: 17; ii: 1
Height of letters
 
Description
rectangular sheet of paper, written on one side along shorter edges; address on side ii written upside down in respect to text on side i
Decorative elements
 
State of preservation
incomplete; bottom part lost
Date
1000–1399
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
tot (ⲧⲟⲧ): i, l. 4
king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ): i, l. 13
ngeshsh of Istigi (ⲉⲓⲥⲧⲓⲅⲛ̄ ⳟⲉϣϣ): i, l. 14
eparch of Nobadia (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍ ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): ii, l. 1
domestikos of Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲇⲱ⸌ⲙ⸍ ⲁⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): ii, l. 1
eparch (ⲉⲡⲁⲣ⸌ⲭ⸍): ii, l. 1
Toponyms & ethnonyms
Istigi (ⲉⲓⲥⲧⲓⲅⲛ̄): i, l. 14
Nobadia (ⲛⲟ⸌ⲃ⸍): ii, l. 1
Pachoras (= Faras) (ⲁⲡⲁ⸌ⲭ⸍): ii, l. 1
Source
P. QI 4 112, fig. 56
Image
Image not available
Source
P. QI 4 112, fig. 56
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
P. QI 4 112, fig. 56
Other editions
 
Other publications
Ruffini 2012a, pp. 207–212 (no. F); Ruffini 2014a, n. 4 on p. 961, p. 968; NOM 4, no. 41 (on name in ve, l. 1); Weschenfelder 2021, pp. 141–144
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