tp

tp

1. Initialism of toilet paper.

tp (third-person singular simple present tp's, present participle tp'ing, simple past and past participle tp'ed)

1. To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.

• PT, p. t., p.t., pt, pt.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /tɛp/
  • Conventional anglicization: tep

 m

1. the head

The reading of this word and related words (including the preposition below) has recently been thrown into doubt. The traditional reading of tp is likely wrong; the New Kingdom reading was more likely dp, and the original reading may have been either dp or ḏp. However, some Egyptologists (e.g. Schweitzer) argue for the older reading.

• ḥrj-tp
• ḥr tp
• gs-tp

1. on top of, atop
2. above

• James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN.
• Werning, Damiel A. (2004) “The Sound Values of the Signs Gardiner D1 (Head) and T8 (Dagger)” in Lingua Aegyptia, volume 12, pages 183–204
• Peust, Carsten (2006) “Nochmals zur Lesung der Kopf-Hieroglyphe” in Göttinger Miszellen, volume 208, pages 7–8
• Schweitzer, Simon D. (2011) “Zum Lautwert einiger Hieroglyphen” in Zeitschrift für Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, volume 138, pages 132–149
• Werning, Damiel A. (2015) Einführung in die hieroglyphisch-ägyptische Schrift und Sprache, pages 34–35:

  “Die Einwände von (Schweitzer 2011) gegen die Lesung dp sind nicht stichhaltig (was an anderer Stelle zu zeigen ist). Neben den unzweifelhaften Schreibungen von ‘Kopf’ als im Amduat (Werning 2004: 196) ist noch folgender, kursivhieroglyphisch geschriebener Beleg hinzuzufügen: ‘Der ein „sakrales“ Haupt hat’ (Papyrus BM 9971).”