Text 597
- Provenance
- Abkanarti
- Region
- Nobadia
- Findspot
- not recorded
- Excavation no.
- Present location
- unknown
- Museum no.
- Medium
- manuscript
- Technique
- painted
- Type of text
- document: letter
- Language
- Old Nubian
- Content
- letter to Ioakim concerning agricultural matters
- Date
- probably 1100–1199
- Notes
- Material
- parchment
- Object dimensions
- H: 10; W: 11.2
- Text dimensions
- Object colour
- Text colour
- Lines
- i: 15; ii: 1 (address)
- Height of letters
- Description
- roughly square piece of parchment, written on both sides - on hair side only address
- Decorative elements
- State of preservation
- well preserved; although part of left margin missing, text almost completely restorable
- Date
- probably 1100–1199
- Chronological systems
- Egyptian calendar
- Dating formulae
- · ⲁⲇⲓⲣ · ⲃ̄ⲕⲟⲛ ·
- Transcription
- "after Athyr 2" (flesh, l. 8)
- Months
- ⲁⲇⲓⲣ
- Weakdays
- Feasts
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- Offices & titles
- timeko( ) (ⲧⲓⲙⲉⲕ⸌ⲟ⸍): ii, l. 1
- Toponyms & ethnonyms
- (church of) Saint Menas (ⳟⲓⲥⲥⲓⲙⲏⲛⲁ): i, l. 1
- Latest edition
- Browne 2003a, pp. 9–14, figs. 1–2
- Other editions
- Donadoni 1965, pp. 24–7
- Other publications
- Catalogue Madrid 1963; Almagro et alii 1965, p. 92, pl. 19b; Presedo Velo 1965, p. 57, pl. 39; Catalogue Barcelona 2003, p. 141 (no. 43)
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