ḥwt-ḥr-ḥrw

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥwt (“enclosure”) +‎ ḥr-ḥrw (“Horus of the Horuses”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘the enclosure of Horus of the Horuses’.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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  1. the temple at Edfu [Greco-Roman Period]
  2. the town of Edfu itself [Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥwt-ḥr-ḥrw  










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References
  • “Ḥw.t-Ḥr.w-Ḥr.ww (lemma ID 858720)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, 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
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.12
  • Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 1133
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