prt-ꜥꜣt

Egyptian

Etymology

prt (“procession”) +‎ ꜥꜣt (“great”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun
pr
r
t		 aA
t		 Hb

 f

  1. the Great Procession, a festival in which (a representation of) the body of Osiris was conveyed from his temple to his tomb in a funerary barque
    • Reign of Senusret III, c. 1878–1839 BCE, Stela of Ikhernofret (Berlin ÄM 1204), lines 18–19:
      iwir
      n      		 A1pr
      r
      t      		 aA
      t      		 SmsA1nTrr
      D54 Z2ss
      f      		 D37
      n      		 A1sP11P1nTrd
      p t      		 P3G26Hr
      Z1      		 U5
      a      		 [[sqdd
      N33C      		 ]]w&tP1
      Z2
      jw jr.n.j prt-ꜥꜣt šms.j nṯr r nmtt.f dj.n.j sqd dpt-nṯr ḏḥwtj ḥr mꜣꜥ [sqd]wt
      I undertook the Great Procession, following the god at his travels; I made the god’s boat sail, with Thoth directing the sailing.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of prt-ꜥꜣt  
pr
r
t		 aA
t
prt-ꜥꜣt

References
  • “pr.t-ꜥꜣ.t (lemma ID 60440)”, 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
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 525.8
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