sḫm-ẖt

Egyptian

Etymology

sḫm (powerful) + ẖt (torso) in a direct genitive construction, thus ‘(the one who is) powerful of torso’. Alternatively, but perhaps less likely, if ẖt is to be interpreted with its other meaning of ‘group of gods’, the intended sense may be ‘powerful one of the group of gods (i.e. the Ennead)’.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

ssxmX

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  1. A serekh name notably borne by Sekhemkhet, a pharaoh of the Third Dynasty

References

  • Sḫm-ẖ.t (lemma ID 400265)”, 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 32
  • von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 51, 176
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