stp-zꜣ

stp +‎ zꜣ.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛtɛp zɑ/
  • Conventional anglicization: setep-za

 compound

1. (intransitive) to protect

Originally, the subject intervened between stp and zꜣ, but in later times it often appeared twice, once after stp and once after zꜣ. By the Greco-Roman Period, it had shifted to appearing only after zꜣ.

Since the Middle Kingdom, the object is sometimes attached to zꜣ as a direct genitive or a suffix pronoun instead of following a preposition.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of stp-zꜣ  

stp-zꜣ	stp-zꜣ	stp-zꜣ	stp-zꜣ	stp-zꜣ

 m

1. a title used for a bodyguard of the king during his travels, literally protector
   • 6th Dynasty, Giza, Western Cemetery, Shaft G 2188 Y, Block of sunk relief inscription mentioning the dog Abutiu (35-10-22/Cairo JE 67573), lines 1–2:^[1]

     
     

     ṯzm wnn stp-zꜣ r ḥm.f ꜥbwtjw rn.f

     The hound that was the protector of His Majesty. His name is Abutiu.

2. used as a component of various other titles; see the Derived Terms section below

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of stp-zꜣ  

stp-zꜣ	stp-zꜣ

 m

1. the palace or court together with its inhabitants
2. the palace as a building
3. a temple or part of a temple in which a god is enthroned or in which a god’s image is set up
4. (Late Egyptian) the judgement hall in the afterlife

This term is sometimes followed by the honorific phrase ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb.

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of stp-zꜣ  

stp-zꜣ	stp-zꜣ

See also the Alternative Forms section under the verb above, as this noun can be written like the verb.

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 339.16–341.11
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 221.