sḫm-ẖt
Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]sḫm (“powerful”) + ẖt (“torso”) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘(the one who is) powerful of torso’. Alternatively, but perhaps less likely, if ẖt is to be interpreted with its other meaning of ‘group of gods’, the intended sense may be ‘powerful one of the group of gods (i.e. the Ennead)’.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /sɛxɛm çɛt/
- Conventional anglicization: sekhem-khet
Proper noun
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- A serekh name notably borne by Sekhemkhet, a pharaoh of the Third Dynasty
References
[edit]- “Sḫm-ẖ.t (lemma ID 400265)”, 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
- Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 32
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 51, 176