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The paperwork outlived the cathedral
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Claim (verbatim)
Institutional Christian Nubia contracted through the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, yet people in late Dotawo kept writing Old Nubian letters and legal instruments. This conjecture claims documentary writing outlived new liturgical production by roughly a century, because its base was the household and the land market, not the cathedral: scripts die from the altar down, not from the ledger up. The prediction is about terminal dates — the latest securely dated documentary texts should postdate the latest securely dated newly produced ecclesiastical-liturgical texts by 75 years or more, and the final century's corpus should be overwhelmingly documentary — the reverse of the common assumption that sacred writing is the tenacious residue of a dying literacy. If it holds, the way African literacies END must be rewritten: the church brings writing, but ordinary law keeps it, and the last Nubian to write Old Nubian was probably closing a deal, not saying a prayer.
Prediction clause (verbatim)
Primary clause: in DBMNT, the latest securely dated documentary and epistolary Old Nubian texts postdate the latest securely dated newly composed liturgical or ecclesiastical production by at least 75 years; secondary clause: among texts datable to the final attested century of Old Nubian writing, more than 70 percent are documentary. Killed if fresh liturgical production continues as late as or later than documentary writing.
Kill-dataset (verbatim)
DBMNT — terminal date distributions by text type.
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Provenance
Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5
Generated blind by a fresh claude-fable-5 instance in a single Write with no reads, web access, database queries, or other tool calls.
Novelty / leakage triage
anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run
It is established that the latest securely dated Old Nubian texts are documentary and notarial — the last land sale of 1463 and a final document of 1484 — so the documentary character of the terminal corpus is known. The explicit 75-year terminal-lag comparison against fresh liturgical production, and the ledger-versus-altar mechanism, were not located.
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