Disambiguation evidence for Old Nubian script (historically) via surface form

"Old Nubian script"


As subject (49)

Triples where this entity appears as subject under the label "Old Nubian script".

Predicate Object
approximateEndUse 15th century
approximateStartUse 8th century
associatedChurch Nubian Church
associatedReligion Christianity
containsBorrowedLettersFrom Coptic script
surface form: Coptic alphabet
containsBorrowedLettersFrom Greek alphabet
currentUse epigraphic documentation
currentUse scholarly study
derivedFrom Coptic script
derivedFrom Greek script
geographicArea Nile Valley between Aswan and Khartoum
hasCharacterType consonants
hasCharacterType diacritics
hasCharacterType vowels
hasDistinctLettersFor Old Nubian phonemes not in Greek
historicalPeriod medieval period
influencedBy Meroitic script
instanceOf alphabet
instanceOf historical script
instanceOf writing system
languageWritten Old Nubian
notableCorpusLocation Dongola
notableCorpusLocation Faras
notableCorpusLocation Qasr Ibrim
primaryUsage Christian religious texts
primaryUsage administrative documents
primaryUsage legal documents
primaryUsage letters
region Nubia
scriptCategory uncial
scriptCodeISO15924 Nbat
scriptDirection left-to-right
status extinct
unicodeBlock Coptic
usedBy Christian Nubian kingdoms
usedBy Kingdom of Alodia
usedBy Kingdom of Makuria
usedBy Kingdom of Nobadia
usedFor writing Old Nubian language
usedIn medieval Nubia
writingMedium ostraca
writingMedium paper
writingMedium parchment
writingMedium walls of churches
writingSystemFamily Greek-derived scripts
writingSystemScope administrative
writingSystemScope legal
writingSystemScope liturgical
writingSystemType alphabetic

As object (1)

Triples where some other subject referred to this entity as "Old Nubian script".

Nubia hasWritingSystem
"Old Nubian script"