Text 559
- Provenance
- Nauri
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
- Museum no.
- Acc. No. E.29-1929
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: legal
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- division of profits from land between Thadeosi and Isounga; king Basil appearing
- Date
- after 1190–circa 1199
- Notes
- 'official Nubian protocol'
- Material
- leather
- Object dimensions
- H: 9; W: 30
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- 12
- Height of letters
- Description
- irregular piece of goat leather
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- complete
- Date
- after 1190–circa 1199
- Chronological systems
- king's occurrence
- Dating formulae
- ⲃⲁⲥⲗ̄ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄ {ⲟⲙⲁⲣⲓ} ⲟⲩⲣⲓⲛⲛ̄
- Transcription
- "King Basil being king" (l. 1)
- Months
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- king (ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩⲉⲗ̄): l. 1; (ⲟⲩⲣ): l. 1
bishop of Sai (ⲍⲁⲉⲓ ⲡⲁⲡⲁⲥ): ll. 1–2
angagett of Seven Lands (ⲉⲡⲧⲁ ⲭⲱⲣⲁ ⲁⳟⲁⲅⲉⲧⲧ): ll. 2–3 (Zyhlarz 1932 ⲉⲡⲓⲇⲭⲱⲣⲁ ⲉⲓⲥⲟⲩⲥⲓⲁⳟⲁⲅⲉⲧⲧ; corr. A. Łajtar & B. Wojciechowski)
priest (⳦): ll. 8, 9
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- Sai (ⲍⲁⲉⲓ): l. 1
Seven Lands (ⲉⲡⲧⲁ ⲭⲱⲣⲁ): l. 2 (Zyhlarz 1932 ⲉⲡⲓⲇⲭⲱⲣⲁ; corr. A. Łajtar)
Oppini (ⲟⲡⲡⲓⲛⲓ): l. 3
- Latest edition
- Zyhlarz 1932, pp. 187–90
- Other editions
- Griffith 1928b, pp. 12–18 (no. 2), pl. 2
- Other publications
- Monneret de Villard 1935–57: 1, pp. 238, 241; Plumley 1978, pp. 239–40; Munro-Hay 1982/3, pp. 112–13; Łajtar 2006a, p. 94; Edwards 2012, p. 151, fig. 6.14; Nowak – Wojciechowski 2012, p. 227 (no. 32)
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