ṯꜣtj
Egyptian
Imhotep, the deified ṯꜣtj of Pharaoh Djoser
Pronunciation
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑti/
- Conventional anglicization: tjati
Noun
|
m
- vizier; the head of Egypt’s national administration [Since the Old Kingdom]
- c. 1900 BCE, The Instructions of Kagemni (pPrisse/pBN 183) lines 2.3–2.4:
- rdj.jn ṯꜣt(j) njs.t(w) nꜣy.f n(j) ẖrdw m ḫt ꜥrq.f sḫr r(m)ṯw bj(ꜣ)t.sn m jjt ḥr.f
- So the vizier let his children be summoned after he understood the conduct of people, their character being what had come upon him.
- the highest official in enumerations
- (later) a sub-official of the vizier
- Used of various gods: Thoth, Amon, and Har-wer. [Since the 18th Dynasty]
- (rare) Used of the king. [Greco-Roman Period]
Inflection
Declension of ṯꜣtj (masculine)
| singular | ṯꜣtj |
|---|---|
| dual | ṯꜣtjwj |
| plural | ṯꜣtjw |
Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ṯꜣtj
|
|
|
|
|
| |||||||||||||||||
| ṯꜣtj | ṯꜣj | ṯꜣt | ṯꜣtj | ṯꜣtj | ṯꜣt | |||||||||||||||||
| [Old Kingdom] | [Old Kingdom] | [Middle Kingdom] | [Middle Kingdom] | [Middle Kingdom] | [since the Middle Kingdom] |
Derived terms
- ṯꜣtt
Descendants
- → English: tjaty
References
- Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 34.
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN