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Pap. Aswan, Nubia Museum 2548

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Metadata

Collection

Inventory Number Pap. Aswan, Nubia Museum 2548
Publication Number P.HindsNubia
Current Location Aswan, Nubia Museum
Publication Permission Status no permission for publication necessary
Publication Status published

Origin / Provenance

Ancient Provenance Site Qasr Ibrīm (قصر إبريم) [Trismegistos]
Certainty: high
Ancient Provenance District Nubia () [Trismegistos]
Type of Discovery archaeological excavation
Certainty:
Finder (= First Purchaser) Egyptian Exploration Society
Certainty:
Location of Find / Purchase in Egypt Qasr Ibrīm
District of Find / Purchase in Egypt Nubia () [Trismegistos]
Type of Acquisition for the Intitution excavation finds
Buyer (Currently Housing Institution) Ready, William Talbot
Certainty:

Object

Object Type papyrus
Dating of Object 141 AH/ 758 CE
Criteria for Dating Date in the text.
Range of Preservation complete

Text Basic Information

Localization of Text on Object recto
Script, Primary Arabic
Language, Primary Arabic
  recto verso
Quantity of Lines 69
Quantity of Columns 1

 

Text Content

Modern Title An eighth-century Arabic Letter to the king of Nubia; A Letter from the Governor of Egypt to the king of Nubia and Muqurra concerning Egyptian-Nubian relations in 141/758
Text Types
  • documentary | letter
Summary of Content An eighth-century Arabic Letter to the king of Nubia; A Letter from the Governor of Egypt to the king of Nubia and Muqurra concerning Egyptian-Nubian relations in 141/758.
Location of Composition Qasr Ibrīm Nubia (Certainty: high)
Multilingualism Script = Language Monolingual
Gender Man
Religion Islam

 

 

Dates

RulerID Regnal Year MonthID Day Date of the Text Gregorian Date dating_comment
141 CE Rajab 11 758 September 19 CE Date in the text.;

 

Pictures

1-Pl-1_R_001
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2-Pl-1_R_002
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3-Pl-1_R_003
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4-Pl-1_R_004
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5-Pl-1_R_006
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Literature

 

DatasetID 312154
last Change 29.07.2022
Author Ahmed Kamal
Dataset License Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC-SA)
Data set citation Data set 312154 (= Pap. Aswan, Nubia Museum 2548), ERC-Project ELEPHANTINE: Ahmed Kamal.