jrt (“eye”) + ḥr (“Horus”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘Eye of Horus’.
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- the actual Eye of Horus in mythology
- (in funerary offering spells) the offering given to the deceased
- an ointment used in mummification [since the New Kingdom]
- (in wine texts) an epithet for wine
- (in cosmetic texts) an epithet for wꜣḏ-cosmetic
- (in qbḥw texts) an epithet for water
- epithet for various goddesses as the personified eyes of Horus
- an epithet for fire [Late Period and Greco-Roman Period]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jrt-ḥr
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jrt-ḥr
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jrt-ḥr
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as an epithet for fire
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- (Eye of Horus): wḏꜣt
- (ointment): mḏ
- (cosmetic): wꜣḏ
Compounded with r.w:
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 321.
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 107.12–107.14
- Wilson, Penelope (1991) A Lexicographical Study of the Ptolemaic Texts in the Temple of Edfu, Liverpool: University of Liverpool, pages 182–184
- Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 38