An Old Nubian sale from Gebel Adda

• Authors: Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei

Abstracts

EN

This article provides the editio princeps of an Old Nubian land sale discovered in Gebel Adda in 1966. The document details the sale of several plots of land to and by a woman called Sewamē and her son Newarē. The first part of the sale contains a short description of the sale, followed by an extended curse containing several terms not previously attested in Old Nubian. The second part starts with an invocation of the Trinity in Greek and Old Nubian, followed by the protocol and a second, expanded description of the sale. This is followed by a list of witnesses and (largely illegible) signature of the scribe. After a transcription, translation, and grammatical analysis of the text, there is an extended commentary of its linguistic features and the question of its dating.

Keywords

EN

Gebel Adda; Old Nubian; Christian Nubia; documentary sources; land sale; philology

• Publisher: Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlaga
• Journal: The Journal of Juristic Papyrology
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 52
• Pages: 35-52

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Vincent W. J. van Gerven Oei

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

16729106