zḥ (“booth, hall, embalmer’s workshop”) + nṯr (“god”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘booth of the god’, ‘divine booth’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition.
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- the mythological booth or hall in which Anubis cleaned and embalmed the corpse of Osiris [since the Pyramid Texts]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zḥ-nṯr
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- small wooden chapel [Old Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]
- temple [since the 18th Dynasty]
- chamber in a temple [Greco-Roman Period]
Declension of zḥ-nṯr (masculine)
See the alternative forms under the proper noun above.
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 465.1–465.13
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 237