nfrw-sbk

Egyptian

Etymology

From nfrw (“beauty”) +‎ sbk (“Sobek”) in a direct genitive construction, thus literally ‘the beauty of Sobek’. The written form demonstrates honorific transposition. Some authors instead read the name without transposition as sbk-nfrw (“Sobek is perfect”), following the later Greek form Σκεμίοφρις (Skemíophris), but others consider this order of elements a later development.

Pronunciation

(modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /nɛfruː sɛbɛk/
- Conventional anglicization: nefru-sobek

Proper noun

f

A female given name, Neferusobek

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of nfrw-sbk

nfrw-sbk

[Middle Kingdom]

[Greco-Roman Period]

References

Ranke, Hermann (1935) Die ägyptischen Personennamen‎, volume 1, Glückstadt: Verlag von J. J. Augustin, page 204.3
Leprohon, Ronald (2013), Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 60
von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, page 67, 200