gold name

gold name (plural gold names)

1. (historical) The third of the five names of the pharaonic titulary, traditionally preceded by the word nbw, usually in conjunction with a falcon
   • 1990, Stephen Quirke, Who Were the Pharaohs?: A History of Their Names with a List of Cartouches, page 31:

     The fivefold titulary was consolidated at this time, and the gold name now took the falcon as a constant part of the title

   • 2002, Toby A.H. Wilkinson, Early Dynastic Egypt, page 177:

     It may be that the name in the cartouche, at this period and in the reign of Sneferu, is in fact the ‘gold name’ (S.Schott 1956:71).

   • 2006, Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, and David Warburton, Ancient Egyptian Chronology, page 103:

     Another stone-vessel inscription associates this structure with the Gold name Ren.

   • 2007, Jochem Kahl, »Ra is My Lord«: Searching for the Rise of the Sun God at the Dawn of Egyptian History, page 8:

     Gold names occur rarely in this period and their meaning remains obscure.

• Golden Horus name
• Horus of Gold name
• golden falcon name

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