gold name

English

Noun

gold name (plural gold names)

1. (historical) The third of the five names of the pharaonic titulary, traditionally preceded by the word nbw, usually in conjunction with a falcon
   • 1990, Stephen Quirke, Who Were the Pharaohs?: A History of Their Names with a List of Cartouches, page 31:

     The fivefold titulary was consolidated at this time, and the gold name now took the falcon as a constant part of the title

   • 2002, Toby A.H. Wilkinson, Early Dynastic Egypt, page 177:

     It may be that the name in the cartouche, at this period and in the reign of Sneferu, is in fact the ‘gold name’ (S.Schott 1956:71).

   • 2006, Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David Warburton, Ancient Egyptian Chronology, page 103:

     Another stone-vessel inscription associates this structure with the Gold name Ren.

   • 2007, Jochem Kahl, »Ra is My Lord«: Searching for the Rise of the Sun God at the Dawn of Egyptian History, page 8:

     Gold names occur rarely in this period and their meaning remains obscure.

Synonyms

• Golden Horus name
• Horus of Gold name
• golden falcon name

Coordinate terms

• serekh name, Two Ladies name, praenomen (throne name), nomen (given name)

Anagrams

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