ṯꜣtj

See also: ttj

Egyptian

Imhotep, the deified ṯꜣtj of Pharaoh Djoser

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɑti/
  • Conventional anglicization: tjati

Noun

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1. vizier; the head of Egypt’s national administration [Since the Old Kingdom]
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.3–2.4:

     rdj.jn ṯꜣt(j) njs.t(w) nꜣy.f n(j) ẖrdw m ḫt ꜥrq.f sḫr r(m)ṯw bj(ꜣ)t.sn m jjt ḥr.f

     So the vizier let his children be summoned after he understood the conduct of people, their character being what had come upon him.

2. the highest official in enumerations
3. (later) a sub-official of the vizier
4. Used of various gods: Thoth, Amon, and Har-wer. [Since the 18th Dynasty]
5. (rare) Used of the king. [Greco-Roman Period]

Inflection

Declension of ṯꜣtj (masculine)

singular	ṯꜣtj
dual	ṯꜣtjwj
plural	ṯꜣtjw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ṯꜣtj  

ṯꜣtj	ṯꜣj	ṯꜣt	ṯꜣtj	ṯꜣtj	ṯꜣt
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[since the Middle Kingdom]

Derived terms

• ṯꜣtt

 

Descendants

• → English: tjaty

References

• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 34.
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN