Text 700
- Provenance
- Gebel Adda
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Greek/Old Nubian
- Content
- deed of land sale by Sewami to Newari. Sewami's son, and Kassa; king Ioel appearing
- Date
- 1450–1465
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
ll. 8–9 in Greek
Document was dated to 1483 in earlier literature, but van Gerven Oei 2022a shows there is no extant date in the text.
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- not recorded
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- brown
- Text colour
- black
- Lines
- 27
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly rectangular piece of leather with text written in black ink parallel to shorter edge; bottom part of the sheet left uninscribed
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete, but lowermost lines heavily obliterated and hardly legible
- Date
- 1450–1465
- Chronological systems
- king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- "Ioel being king" (l. 10)
- Transcription
- ⲓ̈ⲱ̇ⲏⲗ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲁ̄ ⲓ̈ⲛⲓ
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲁ̄): l. 10
queen mother (ⳟ̣[ⲟ]ⲛ̣ⲛⲉⲛⲁ): l. 11
keeper of granaries (ϣⲟⲩⳟⲁ): l. 11
scribe (ⲥⲟⲩⲧⲟ̣ⲩ̣ⳣⲉ): ll. 11–12
joknashi (ⲇⲟⲕⲛⲁϣⲓⲁ̇): l. 12
abba (ⲁⲃⲃⲁ): l. 12
bishop (ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥⲓ): l. 13
bishop of Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲉⲫⲣⲁⲙ ⲡⲁ⸌ⲡⲁ⸍ⲥⲁ): l. 13
eparch of Nobadia (ⲙⲓⲕⲓⲧⲟⲩⲅⲟⲩ ⲥⲟⳟⲟⳝⲁ): ll. 13–14
ngashsh of Koudketi (ⲕⲟⲩ⸌ⲣ⸍ⲕⲉⲧⲓ ⳟⲁϣϣⲁⲗⲟ): l. 18 (van Gerven Oei 2022a: 'Jertepa Kourketi the ngashsh')
timakkis (ⲧⲓⲙⲁⲕⲥ̄ⲥⲓⲗⲟ): l. 20 (anonymous)
priest (⳦ⲗⲟ): l. 20 (anonymous); l. 21; l. 25 (anonymous)
nganyimi of (church of) Raphael (ⲣ̣ⲁ̣ⲫⲁⲏⲗ ⳟⲁⳡⲓⲙⲓⲗⲟ): l. 21
deacon (ⲇⲓⲁ̄ⲅⲟⲛⲟ): l. 22
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Phrim (= Ibrim) (ⲉⲫⲣⲁⲙ): l. 13
Koudketi (ⲕⲟⲩ⸌ⲣ⸍ⲕⲉⲧⲓ): l. 18 (van Gerven Oei 2022a: 'Jertepa Kourketi the ngashsh')
(church of) Raphael (ⲣ̣ⲁ̣ⲫⲁⲏⲗ): l. 21
- Latest edition
- van Gerven Oei 2022a
- Other editions
- Other publications
- Millet 1967, p. 62; Munro-Hay 1982/3, p. 131; Łajtar 2011, p. 50; Łajtar 2014c, p. 951
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