sṯ-ḥꜣb
Egyptian
editEtymology
editsṯ (“scent”) + ḥꜣb (“festival”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘scent of the festival’.
Pronunciation
edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɛt͡ʃ hɑb/
- Conventional anglicization: setj-hab
Noun
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- one of the seven sacred oils used in mortuary rituals, made from a mixture of various seeds, flowers, and frankincense [end of the Third Dynasty to Ptolemaic Period]
Alternative forms
editAlternative hieroglyphic writings of sṯ-ḥꜣb
References
edit- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 350.7–350.11
- Kapiec, Katarzyna (2018) “The Sacred Scents: Examining the Connection Between the ꜥntjw and sfṯ in the Context of the Early Eighteenth Dynasty Temples” in Études et Travaux XXXI, pages 195–217