mꜣꜣt-ḥr-stẖ

Egyptian

Etymology

mꜣꜣt (“seeing”, feminine imperfective active participle of mꜣꜣ) +‎ ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ stẖ (“Set”), thus ‘(the one) seeing Horus-Set’, with ‘Horus-Set’ a reference to the king.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɑʔɑt hɛr sɛtɛç/
  • Conventional anglicization: maat-her-setekh

Noun

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1. early title of the queen [chiefly Old Kingdom]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mꜣꜣt-ḥr-stẖ  

mꜣꜣ-ḥr-stẖ	mꜣꜣt-ḥr-stẖ	mꜣꜣt-ḥr-stẖ
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]

References

• “mꜣꜣ.t-Ḥr.w-Stẖ (lemma ID 450539)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, 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, 2004–15 December 2022
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 124.1
• Jones, Dilwyn (2000) An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom (BAR International Series; 866 (I-II)), volume I-II, Oxford: Archaeopress, →ISBN, § 1562, pages 421–422
• Helck, Wolfgang, Westendorf, Wolfhart (1977) Lexikon der Ägyptologie, volumes 2: Erntefest – Hordjedef, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, page 824