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Primis (Qasr Ibrim)

TM Geo 1916

Egypt - Aethiopia (Aethiopia) - provincia: Aegyptus - located on the eastern Nile bank
22.6499972,32.0166707 (Lat,Long)


Links: Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire, Medieval Nubia, Pleiades, Pleiades [2], Pleiades [3], ToposText, Wikipedia


Status: city: polis; oppidum


Greek name(s): Πριμις - Πρημνις - Πρῖμα
Latin name(s): Primi - Pidema - Pindis
Coptic name(s): ⲫⲣⲓⲙ - ⲥⲗ̅ⲙⲏ
Modern name(s): Qasr Ibrim
Variants: Primis - Premnis - Prima - Pidema - Pindis (var. lect.: Pinnis) - Pedeme - Silmi - Qasr Ibrim (Gebel Qasr Ibrim) - sites including Gebel Maktub


Repertoria: Dizionario IV, p. 136 (s.v. Pide); p. 142 (s.v. Pindis)
Biblio: RE s.v. Pindis; RE s.v. Primis (C); Priese, Meroitica 7 (1984), p. 488; Fontes Historiae Nubiorum 2, 1996, p. 556; 3, 1998, p. 807; p. 879; p. 930; Łajtar, JJP 33 (2003), p. 144; CDD P, 2010, p. 96; Derda / Łajtar, Pap. Congr. XXVI (Geneva 2010), 2012, p. 183-186; Łajtar, The Upper Church at Banganari, 2020, p. 65-67
Map: Baines / Málek, Atlas, 2002(2), p. 178-179 (Qasr Ibrim / Primis); Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 81 C3 (Premis); Répertoire d’épigraphie méroïtique, 2000, p. xx (Qasr Ibrim)
Note: obsolete readings: Pr-rmy; Pide; new reading in Graff. Dodec. Dakka 12, 5 (personal name, no toponym)


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241292Palamedes 9 - 10 (2014-2015), p. 5-6, Vo 24εἰ<ς> Πρῖμαpapyrus Greek BC01 Egypt, U05 - Koptos (Qift) [written]
Egypt, Aethiopia - Primis (Qasr Ibrim) [find place & destination]
45265I. Prose 67, 16 [b]ἀπὸ Πριμ(εως)stone Greek AD05 Egypt, Aethiopia - Talmis (Kalabsha) [find place, place of writing & preservation]
220237I. Qasr Ibrim 23, 10 [a]ⲫⲣⲙstone (sandstone) Greek / Old Nubian AD11 - AD12 Egypt, Aethiopia - Primis (Qasr Ibrim) [found & written]
220235I. Qasr Ibrim 20, 6ⲫⲣⲙstone (sandstone) Greek / Old Nubian AD12 Egypt, Aethiopia - Primis (Qasr Ibrim) [found & written]
120022I. Khartoum Greek 5, 20ⲫⲣⲙstone (sandstone) Coptic / Greek AD12 Sudan, Pachora (Faras) (?) [found & written]
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