ḥr-m-ꜣḫt

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Egyptian

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Etymology

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ḥr (Horus) +‎ m (in) +‎ ꜣḫt (Akhet, place of sunrise), thus literally meaning ‘Horus in the Akhet’.

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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G5M
Axt

 m

  1. Harmachis or Horemakhet, a hypostasis of Horus as the deified Great Sphinx of Giza [New Kingdom to Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Ancient Greek: Ἁρμάχις (Harmákhis)

References

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  • Ḥr.w-m-ꜣḫ.t (lemma ID 107950)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
  • Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 5: ḥ–ḫ, Leuven: Peeters, pages 238–239
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 17.15–17.16
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[3], volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.4