Text 2933

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, 2934, 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
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
 
Image
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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unpublished; description of contents and archaeological context in Adams 2010, pp. 24, 245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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