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DBMNT
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2934
Text no.
Text 2934
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Trismegistos
TM
text 371418
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Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
hose 210, room 1, beneath floor
Excavation no.
unknown, found in 1972
Present location
Coptic Museum, Cairo (?)
Museum no.
unknown
Medium
manuscript
Technique
painted
Type of text
document: letter
Language
Coptic
Content
letter relating to Nubian–Egyptian relations addressed to a Nubian official
Date
circa 750–circa 760
Notes
found together with DBMNT 2932, 2933, and the Arabic letter of Musa ibn Ka'b from AD 758
Material
papyrus
Object dimensions
not recorded
Text dimensions
Object colour
Text colour
Lines
not recorded
Height of letters
Description
fragmentary papyrus scroll
Decorative elements
State of preservation
fragmentary, in a few fragments
Date
circa 750–circa 760
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Transcription
Months
Weakdays
Feasts
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Bibliography & list of abbreviations
Latest edition
unpublished; description of contents and archaeological context in Adams 2010, pp. 24, 245
Other editions
Other publications
Plumley – Adams 1974, pp. 237–8, pl. 53.3–4; Plumley 1975c, pp. 241–2; Hagen 2010, p. 722
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