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Egyptian
Etymology
n- + ẖnm (“to unite with”), thus ‘reunion’ oil.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- one of the seven sacred oils used in mortuary rituals, made of pine resin, wood pitch, and bitumen
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nẖnm
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 319.1–319.3
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 139
- Kapiec, Katarzyna (2018) “The Sacred Scents: Examining the Connection Between the ꜥntjw and sfṯ in the Context of the Early Eighteenth Dynasty Temples” in Études et Travaux XXXI, pages 195–217
