špss-kꜣ.f

Egyptian

Etymology

špss (to be noble, august) + kꜣ (life-force, sustenance) + .f (his), thus ‘his life-force is noble’.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

SpssskA
f

 m

  1. A throne name notably borne by Shepseskaf, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty

References

  • Špss-kꜣ⸗f (lemma ID 852530)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN, page 37
  • von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 53, 180
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