štj

Egyptian

Egyptian numbers ^(edit)

←  100	𓍣 200	1,000  →
	20[a], [b]
Cardinal: štj     Ordinal: mḥ-štj

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ʃɛti/
  • Conventional anglicization: sheti

Numeral

1. two hundred
   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 177–179:

     ꜥḥꜥ.n(.j) rdj.kw r šmsw sꜣḥ.kw m štj tpw

     Then I was appointed as a retainer and endowed with two hundred servants (literally, “heads”).

Inflection

Declension of štj

	masculine	feminine
singular	—	štj

References

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 102.