jmj-r-šnwt

Egyptian

Etymology

jmj-r (“overseer”) +‎ šnwt (“granary”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘overseer of the granary’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /imi ɛr ʃɛnuːt/
  • Conventional anglicization: imi-er-shenut

Noun

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1. an official title: overseer of the granary [chiefly Old Kingdom]
   • Late 5th Dynasty, c. 2408–2341 BCE, False Door of Nykara (Cleveland 1964.91), left jamb, caption above Ankhmara:

     zꜣ.f smsw jmj-r-šnwt ꜥnḫ-m-ꜥ-rꜥ

     His eldest son, overseer of the granary, Ankhmara

Inflection

Declension of jmj-r-šnwt (masculine)

singular	jmj-r-šnwt
dual	jmjwj-r-šnwt
plural	jmjw-r-šnwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jmj-r-šnwt  

jmj-r-šnwt

References

• “jm.j-rʾ-šnw.t (lemma ID 600262)”, 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
• Jones, Dilwyn (2000) An Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom (BAR International Series; 866 (I-II)), volume I-II, Oxford: Archaeopress, →ISBN, § 916, page 253
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 510.16