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Egyptian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
m
- A male given name of historical usage, notably borne by Pepi I Meryre, Pepi II Neferkare, and Pepi III, pharaohs of the Sixth and Sixteenth Dynasty
Usage notes
Some authors read the signs of this name in a different order, as pjpj. However, attested writings of the name as
in vertical script and
in horizontal script strongly argue against such a reading, whereas no instances of the spelling *
, which might be expected for the reading pjpj, have been found.
References
- “Ppy (lemma ID 400313)”, 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, pages 42–43
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 56–57, 184–185
- Fischer, Henry G. (1989) “The Transcription of the Royal Name Pepy” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 75, issue 1, pp. 214–215
- Sethe, Kurt (1908) Die Altaegyptischen Pyramidentexte nach den Papierabdrücken und Photographien des Berliner Museums, Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, volume 1, page XII
