ꜥbrꜥstjꜥks
Egyptian
editEtymology
editCompare Ancient Greek ἀβρασάξ (abrasáx).
Proper noun
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- Abrasax [Greco-Roman Period]
Usage notes
editThis word is found rendered in a line of hieratic writing in the middle of a mostly Demotic-script text, accompanied by the Old Coptic gloss ⲁⲃⲣⲁⲥⲁⲝ (abrasaks). As such, it is hard to say whether it should be taken as an archaizing representation of Demotic or as code-switching to earlier Egyptian.
References
edit- Dieleman, Jacco (2005) Priests, Tongues, and Rites: The London-Leiden Magical Manuscripts and Translation in Egyptian Ritual (100-300 CE), page 77
- Griffith, Francis Llewellyn and Thompson, Herbert (1904) The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden, pages 146–147