The paper, the third part in the ‘Nubica onomastica miscellanea’ series, offers a number of corrections to the reading of names in written sources coming from all over Christian Nubia. The texts represent a variety of epigraphic and papyrological genres and were written in Greek, Coptic, and Old Nubian
The fourth instalment of the ‘Nubica onomastica miscellanea’ series offers a massive batch of corrections to personal names found in Christian Nubian sources. The anthroponyms discussed in this paper come exclusively from Old Nubian documents discovered at Qasr Ibrim and published by Gerald M. Browne and Giovanni Ruffini. The article includes simple re-readings of anthroponyms on the one hand and more elaborate reinterpretations of whole phrases containing them on the other. Identification with known foreign names and etymologies for many local Nubian names are proposed, greatly contributing to our understanding of medieval Nubian naming practices. Last but not least, many ghost-names are identified and their true meaning is explained.
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