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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Noun
f
- (Late Egyptian) vessel, container, jar
- c. 1150 BCE, Papyrus Harris I, plate 15a, lines 7–10:[1][2]
ꜥḏw ⸢ḥḏ⸣ mnt911
ꜥḏw rꜣ mnt385
smy mnt20
dmḏ ꜣꜥꜥt dns9125
⸢White⸣ fat: 911 jars
Goose fat: 385 jars
Curds: 20 jars
Total of weighted jars: 9125
Usage notes
There seems to be some confusion over the determinative used in this word; Lesko renders it
, while Erman and Grapow render it
, but in the slips used for compiling their dictionary it is rendered identically to
. The original word (and so the determinative) is attested only in hieratic, where the sign most closely resembles other hieratic writings of
.
[3]Inflection
Declension of ꜣꜥꜥt (feminine)
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣꜥꜥt
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) “ꜣꜥꜥ·t”, in Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 3.6
- Lesko, Leonard, Lesko, Barbara (2002) “ꜣꜥꜥ(w)t”, in A Dictionary of Late Egyptian, second edition, volume 1, Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications, →ISBN, page 2
- ^ Erichsen, Wolja (1933) Papyrus Harris I: Hieroglyphische Transkription, Brussels, p.18
- ^ Birch, Samuel (1876) Facsimile of an Egyptian Hieratic papyrus of the reign of Ramses III, now in the British Museum, London, p.9 and Plate 15a
- ^ See, for instance, the signs in Möller, Georg (1909–1936) Hieratische Paläographie, Leipzig, vol. 1, pp. 47–48.
