pr-bjtj
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Egyptian
Etymology
pr (“house, palace”) + bjtj (“king (of Lower Egypt?)”) in a direct genitive construction.
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /pɛr biti/
- Conventional anglicization: per-biti
Noun
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- (rare) a kind of royal palace contrasted with pr-nswt, traditionally rendered as ‘palace of the king of Lower Egypt’
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-bjtj
References
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 513.6
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89