Nubica onomastica miscellanea IV. Notes on and corrections to personal names found in Old Nubian documents from Qasr Ibrim

• Authors: Ochała Grzegorz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

Christian Nubia; Qasr Ibrim; Old Nubian; onomastics; ghost names

• Publisher: Fundacja im. Rafała Taubenschlaga
• Journal: The Journal of Juristic Papyrology
• Year: 2019
• Issue: 49
• Pages: 143-251

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Ochała Grzegorz

• University of Warsaw Institute of Archaeology Department of Papyrology Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 00-927 Warsaw Poland

Identifiers

ISSN

0075-4277