snfr-wj

Egyptian

Etymology

snfr (“to make pleasing, fine, beautiful”) +‎ wj (“me”), thus ‘[he] has made me fine’; compare the longer form in the serekh name nb-mꜣꜥt-snfr-wj (literally “the possessor of righteousness has made me fine”).

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /sɛnɛfɛr wi/
  • Conventional anglicization: senefer-wi

Proper noun

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1. A throne name notably borne by Sneferu, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty
   • c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) line 2.8:

     ꜥḥꜥ.n sꜥḥꜥ ḥm n(j) nswt-bjtj snfr-w(j) m nswt mnḫ m tꜣ pn r ḏr.f

     Then the majesty of the Dual King Sneferu was raised up as splendid king in this entire land.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of snfr-wj  

snrf-w	snfr-w	snfr-w	snfr-w	snfr
		Abydos King List	Karnak King List	Turin King List

Descendants

• → English: Sneferu, Snofru
• → Ancient Greek: Σῶρις (Sôris)

References

• Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN
• von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 52–53, 178
• Lepsius, Carl Richard (1849) Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, Abtheilung II, plate 17a