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Egyptian
Etymology
nmtj (“Nemty”) + m (“in, in the role of”) + zꜣ (“protection”) + .f (“his”), thus literally ‘Nemty is his protection’.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
- A given name of historical usage, notably borne by Nemtyemzaef Merenre I and II, two pharaohs of the Sixth Dynasty
c. 2255 BCE – 2246 BCE,
Pyramid Texts of Merenre — west wall of the corridor’s middle section, line 12–13, spell 606.26–606.28:
[1]- nmtj-m-zꜣ.f mr.n-rꜥ pn ḏj.sn ꜥnḫ.k nḥr.k jtrw ḥr-ꜣḫtj m jrt.sn rn.f m ḥr jr nṯrw
- O Nemtyemzaef Merenre, they will make you live and equal the seasons of Horakhty when they made his identity as the One Far From The Gods.
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nmtj-m-zꜣ.f
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ḏfꜣ-m-zꜣ.f
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Abydos King List; ḏfꜣ is a placeholder that means ‘lacuna’ and indicates the first sign was already unknown in Ramesside times
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Descendants
(possibly, with metathesis:)
References
- “Nmt.j-m-zꜣ⸗f (lemma ID 854416)”, 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 43
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 57–58, 185
- Sethe, Kurt (1908) Die Altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte nach den Papierabdrücken und Photographien des Berliner Museums, Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, volume 1, page XII
- ^ Allen, James (2013) A New Concordance of the Pyramid Texts, volume V, Providence: Brown University, PT 606.26–606.28 (Pyr. 1693a–1693c), M