ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ
Egyptian
FWOTD – 8 August 2018
Etymology
From ḥwt (“enclosure”) + kꜣ (“ka”) + ptḥ (“Ptah”) with direct genitive constructions, thus literally ‘house of the ka of Ptah’.
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed) IPA(key): /ħawitˌkuʀpiˈtaħ/ → /ħajiʔˌkuʀpiˈtaħ/ → /ħəjəˌkujpəˈtaħ/ → /ħəjˌkojpəˈtaħ/
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /huːt kɑ pɛtɛh/
- Conventional anglicization: hut-ka-ptah
Proper noun
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- The temple of the ka of Ptah in Memphis, Egypt
- c. 725 BCE, Victory Stela of Piye (Cairo JE 48862), line 97:[1]
- drp ḏꜣḏꜣt ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ
- presenting an offering to the assembly (of gods) of the temple of Ptah
- c. 725 BCE, Victory Stela of Piye (Cairo JE 48862), line 97:[1]
- (metonymic) Memphis, Egypt
- c. 1351–1340 BCE, offering-list of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten, lines 1–2:[2]
- [rꜥ-ḥr-ꜣḫtj-ḥꜥ-m-ꜣḫt-m-rn.f-m-šw-ntj]-m-[j]ṯn [ḥr] nꜣ n(j) ḫꜣwt rꜥ šꜣ(ꜥ)-m ḥwt-kꜣ-[ptḥ] nfryt-r zmꜣ-n-bḥḏt
- [Ra-Horakhty-who-rejoices-on-the-horizon-in-his-name-of-Light]-in-the-Sun-Disk is [upon] the altars of Ra from Memphis all the way to Zema-Behdet.
- 19th Dynasty, Papyrus Sallier IV (British Museum EA 10184) verso (A Letter Concerning the Wonders of Memphis), 1.3, 2.1:[3]
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- m.k ḥr ḏd n ptḥ ꜥꜣ rs(j)-jnb.f nb ꜥnḫ-tꜣwj n sḫmt ꜥꜣt mry(t) ptḥ […] n nswtyw-bjtjw ntj jmj-wrt ntj ḥr jmnt n(j) ḥwt-kꜣ-ptḥ […]
- Look, (I) pray to Ptah the Great, He-Who-is-South-of-His-Wall, the lord of the life of the Two Lands, to Sekhmet the Great, beloved of Ptah, […] to the Dual Kings of Egypt who are in the West [i.e. the afterworld], who are to the west of Memphis […]
- c. 1351–1340 BCE, offering-list of Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten, lines 1–2:[2]
Descendants
- → Akkadian: 𒄭𒆪𒌒𒋫𒀪 (ḫi-ku-up-ta-aḫ /ḫikuptaḫ/)
- → Ancient Greek: Αἴγυπτος (Aíguptos) (see there for further descendants)
- → Mycenaean Greek: 𐁁𐀓𐀠𐀴𐀍 (a3-ku-pi-ti-jo)
- → Ugaritic: 𐎈𐎋𐎔𐎚 (ḥkpt /ḥikupta/)
References
- ^ Schäfer, Heinrich (1905–1908) Urkunden des ägyptischen Altertums III: Urkunden der älteren Äthiopenkönige, Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 35
- ^ Saad, Ramadan and Manniche, Lise (1971) “A unique offering list of Amenophis IV recently found at Karnak” in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 57, pages 70–72.
- ^ Gardiner, Alan (1937) Late-Egyptian Miscellanies, page 89.