špss-kꜣ.f

Egyptian

Etymology

špss (“to be noble, august”) +‎ kꜣ (“life-force, sustenance”) +‎ .f (“his”), thus ‘his life-force is noble’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃɛpsɛs kɑʔɛf/
  • Conventional anglicization: shepses-ka.ef

Proper noun

 m

1. A throne name notably borne by Shepseskaf, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty

References

• “Špss-kꜣ⸗f (lemma ID 852530)”, 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
• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 37
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 53, 180