mdw šps

Egyptian edit

mdw (“staff”) +‎ šps (“noble, august”).

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /mɛduː ʃɛpɛs/
- Conventional anglicization: medu shepes

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(with following indirect genitive of name of a god) sacred staff revered as a symbol or scepter of a particular god, often bearing the head of that god [chiefly Greco-Roman Period]
Synonym: mdw

Declension of mdw šps (masculine)

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of mdw šps

mdw špsj

mdw šps

[Greco-Roman Period]

^[1]

Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 178.8

^ Grapow, Hermann, et al. (1897–1939) Das digitalisierte Zettelarchiv des “Wörterbuches der ägyptischen Sprache” (DZA)‎^[1], Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, published 1999, DZA 24.469.470