ḫntj-jmntjw
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Egyptian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
ḫntj (“foremost”) + jmntjw (“westerners, i.e. the dead”), plural of jmntj (“western(er)”).
The word is first attested in the tombs of First Dynasty kings Den (dn) and Qaa (qꜣ-ꜥ), where it is associated with the dead kings. However, there is no certain evidence that it referred to a separate deity (rather than being an epithet for other deities) until the second half of the Fifth Dynasty.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /xɛnti imɛntiuː/
- Conventional anglicization: khenti-amentiu
Proper noun[edit]
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- Foremost of the Westerners, an epithet used for various gods of the dead such as Osiris and Anubis
- Khentiamentiu, a god of the dead and patron god of the necropolis at Abydos
Alternative forms[edit]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḫntj-jmntjw
Descendants[edit]
- Old Coptic: ⳓⲛⲧⲉⲙⲛⲧ (ḫntemnt)
References[edit]
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 92, 365.
- Smith, Mark (2017) Following Osiris: Perspectives on the Osirian Afterlife from Four Millennia, pages 65 et seq.