Nubian Voices II

New Texts and Studies on Christian Nubian Culture

Edited by Grzegorz Ochala, Adam Łajtar and Jacques van der Vliet

Series: JJP Supplements

Imprint: Journal of Juristic Papyrology

350 Pages, 5

Hardcover
9788393842575
May 2016
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CONTENTS
PREFACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
GENERAL ABBREVIATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
NOTE ON THE EDITION OF THE TEXTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Part One
NEWTEXTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Renate Dekker
The memorial stone of Bishop Joseph III of Aswan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Jacques van der Vliet & Klaas A. Worp
Four north-Nubian funerary stelae from the Bankes Collection . . . . . . . . . 27
Jan van Ginkel & Jacques van der Vliet
A Syriac alphabet from Qasr Ibrim . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Giovanni R. Ruffini
Qasr Ibrim’s Old Nubian burial-shroud (QI inv. 78.1.24/53 = NI 46) . . . . 53
Adam Łajtar & Grzegorz Ochała
Two wall inscriptions from the Faras cathedral with lists of people and goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Adam Łajtar & Jacques van der Vliet
An inscribed tomb chamber in Ukma-West . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Agata Deptuła
Inscriptions from Saint Menas’ church in Selib . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Adam Łajtar
Three fragments of terracotta epitaphs from el-Koro and Karmel (Abu Hamed Reach) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Part Two
STUDIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Robin Seignobos
Les évêchés nubiens: nouveaux témoignages. La source de la liste de Vansleb et deux autres textes méconnus . . . . . . . . 151
Adam Łajtar
The mystery of Timikleos solved! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Alexandros Tsakos
The cryptogram ΜΧΓ as a variant of the cryptogram ΧΜΓ: On text and image in Christian Nubia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Jacques van der Vliet
Nubian voices from Edfu: Egyptian scribes and Nubian patrons in southern Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Petra Weschenfelder
The soulou in medieval Old Nubian documents: A mobile ethnic or professional group? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Kerstin Weber-Thum & Petra Weschenfelder
The multifunctional -ⲁ: A wild-card in Old Nubian grammar? . . . . . . . 301
Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei
A note on the Old Nubian morpheme - in nominal and verbal predicates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313