offering formula
English
Noun
offering formula (plural offering formulas)
- a conventional Ancient Egyptian dedicatory text inscribed on funerary objects, beginning with the phrase ḥtp-ḏj or ḥtp-ḏj-nswt and indicating a funerary gift authorized by the king and provided by the funerary establishment of a local god
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see offering, formula.