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Egyptian
Etymology
jmj-r (“overseer”) + šnwt (“granary”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘overseer of the granary’.
Pronunciation
Noun
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- an official title: overseer of the granary
- Late 5th Dynasty, c. 2408–2341 BCE, False Door of Nykara (Cleveland 1964.91), left jamb, caption above Ankhmara:
- zꜣ.f smsw jmj-r-šnwt ꜥnḫ-m-ꜥ-rꜥ
- His eldest son, overseer of the granary, Ankhmara
Inflection
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj-r-šnwt
References
- “jm.j-rʾ-šnw.t (lemma ID 600262)”, 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
- Jones, Dilwyn (2000) An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom (BAR International Series; 866 (I-II)), volume I-II, Oxford: Archaeopress, →ISBN, § 916, page 253
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 510.16
- ^ Berman, Lawrence M., Bohač, Kenneth J. (1999) The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Egyptian Art, New York: Hudson Hills Press, pages 130–132
