sṯ-ḥꜣb

Egyptian

Etymology

sṯ (“scent”) +‎ ḥꜣb (“festival”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘scent of the festival’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛt͡ʃ hɑb/
  • Conventional anglicization: setj-hab

Noun

 m

1. one of the seven sacred oils used in mortuary rituals, made from a mixture of various seeds, flowers, and frankincense [end of the Third Dynasty to Ptolemaic Period]

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of sṯ-ḥꜣb  

sṯ-ḥb

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1930) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 4, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 350.7–350.11
• Kapiec, Katarzyna (2018) “The Sacred Scents: Examining the Connection Between the ꜥntjw and sfṯ in the Context of the Early Eighteenth Dynasty Temples” in Études et Travaux XXXI, pages 195–217