twꜣwt
Egyptian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]twꜣ (“to beseech, to appeal to, to support”) + -wt.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /tuːɑuːt/
- Conventional anglicization: tuaut
Noun
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- one of the seven sacred oils used in mortuary rituals, made of wood pitch, frankincense, and pine [since the Fifth Dynasty]
Alternative forms
[edit]Alternative hieroglyphic writings of twꜣwt
References
[edit]- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 251.4–251.7
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 295
- 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