Egyptian
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Etymology
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mdw (“staff, custodian”) + ḥp (“Apis”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘staff/custodian of Apis’.
Pronunciation
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- a priestly title: ‘herdsman of Apis’ [Old and Middle Kingdoms]
Inflection
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Declension of mdw-ḥp (masculine)
Alternative forms
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Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw-ḥp
References
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- “mdw-ḥp (lemma ID 450708)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], 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
- Jones, Dilwyn (2000) An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom (BAR International Series; 866 (I-II)), volume I-II, Oxford: Archaeopress, →ISBN, § 1699, page 454
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 178.14