ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ

Egyptian
FWOTD – 8 August 2018

Etymology

From ḥwt (“enclosure”) +‎ kꜣ (“ka”) +‎ ptḥ (“Ptah”) with direct genitive constructions, thus literally ‘house of the ka of Ptah’.

Pronunciation
 
  • (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ħawitˌkuʀpiˈtaħ/ → /ħawiʔˌkuʀpiˈtaħ/ → /ħəˌkuʔpəˈtaħ/

Proper noun



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  1. The temple of the ka of Ptah in Memphis, Egypt
    • c. 725 BCE, Victory Stela of Piye (Cairo JE 48862), line 97:[1]





      drp ḏꜣḏꜣt ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ
      presenting an offering to the assembly (of gods) of the temple of Ptah
  2. (metonymically) Memphis, Egypt
    • c. 1351–1340 BCE, offering-list of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten, lines 1–2:[2]





















      [rꜥ-ḥr-ꜣḫtj-ḥꜥ-m-ꜣḫt-m-rn.f-m-šw-ntj]-m-[j]ṯn [ḥr] nꜣ n(j) ḫꜣwt rꜥ šꜣ(ꜥ)-m ḥwt-kꜣ-[ptḥ] nfryt-r zmꜣ-n-bḥḏt
      [Ra-Horakhty-who-rejoices-on-the-horizon-in-his-name-of-Light]-in-the-Sun-Disk is [upon] the altars of Ra from Memphis all the way to Zema-Behdet.
    • 19th Dynasty, Papyrus Sallier IV (British Museum EA 10184) verso (A Letter Concerning the Wonders of Memphis), 1.3, 2.1:[3]














      		…









      m.k ḥr ḏd n ptḥ ꜥꜣ rs(j)-jnb.f nb ꜥnḫ-tꜣwj n sḫmt ꜥꜣt mry(t) ptḥ […] n nswtyw-bjtjw ntj jmj-wrt ntj ḥr jmnt n(j) ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ […]
      Look, (I) pray to Ptah the Great, He-Who-is-South-of-His-Wall, the lord of the life of the Two Lands, to Sekhmet the Great, beloved of Ptah, […] to the Dual Kings of Egypt who are in the West [i.e. the afterworld], who are to the west of Memphis […]
  3. (metonymically) Egypt

Descendants
  • → Akkadian: 𒄭𒆪𒌒𒋫𒀪 (ḫi-ku-up-ta-aḫ /ḫikuptaḫ/)
  • → Ancient Greek: Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos) (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Schäfer, Heinrich (1905–1908) Urkunden des ägyptischen Altertums III: Urkunden der älteren Äthiopenkönige, Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 35
  2. Saad, Ramadan and Manniche, Lise (1971) “A unique offering list of Amenophis IV recently found at Karnak” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 57, pages 70–72.
  3. Gardiner, Alan (1937) Late-Egyptian Miscellanies, page 89.
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