From ꜣbwt (“appearance, form”) + nṯr (“god”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘form of god’. However, the full form *ꜣbwt-nṯr is unattested, as the word-final t had fallen silent and was often left unwritten by the time of this term’s earliest attestation. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.
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- a type of cloth that serves as a cultic object or relic, sometimes associated with Horus and seen as having protective and mortuary functions [Late Period to Greco-Roman Period]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ꜣbw-nṯr
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ꜣbw-nṯr
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ꜣbw-nṯr
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ꜣbwj-nṯr
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- Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, page 8