šdšd

Egyptian

at right on a standard of Wepwawet

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃɛdʃɛd/
  • Conventional anglicization: shedshed

Noun

 m

1. a bulbous, curling ornament or protuberance attached to the front of divine standards, particularly that of Wepwawet [since the Pyramid Texts]

Inflection

Declension of šdšd (masculine)

singular	šdšd
dual	šdšdwj
plural	šdšdw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of šdšd  

šdšd

[Old Kingdom]

References

• “šdšd (lemma ID 158940)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], 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
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 569.2–569.3
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 274
• Evans, Linda (2011) “The Shedshed of Wepwawet: An Artistic and Behavioural Interpretation” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, volume 97, pages 103–115