špss-kꜣ.f
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Egyptian
Etymology
špss (“to be noble, august”) + kꜣ (“life-force, sustenance”) + .f (“his”), thus ‘his life-force is noble’.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /ʃɛpsɛs kɑʔɛf/
- Conventional anglicization: shepses-ka.ef
Proper noun
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- A throne name notably borne by Shepseskaf, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty
References
- “Špss-kꜣ⸗f (lemma ID 852530)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
- Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 37
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 53, 180