bbr
Translingual
Symbol
bbr
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Girawa terms
Egyptian
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (reconstructed Middle Egyptian) IPA(key): /baːbilu/[1]
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /bɛbɛr/
- Conventional anglicization: beber
Proper noun
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m./f. topo.
- Babylon (an ancient city, the ancient capital of Babylonia in modern Iraq, built on the banks of the Euphrates)
- Babylonia (an ancient empire and geographic region of Mesopotamia, existing from 1850 BCE to 539 BCE, based around the city of Babylon; at its maximum extent, covering parts of modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Syria and Iran)
- c. 1439 BCE, Annals of Thutmose III, year 40 inscription, list of tribute from Assur:[2][3]
- ḫsbd nfr n(j) bbr
- good lapis lazuli of Babylon
- c. 1439 BCE, Annals of Thutmose III, year 40 inscription, list of tribute from Assur:[2][3]
Alternative forms
References
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 82
- ^ Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 95
- ^ Sethe, Kurt, Helck, Wolfgang (1906–1958) Urkunden des ägyptischen Altertums IV: Urkunden der 18. Dynastie, Leipzig/Berlin: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, page 668
- ^ Gardiner, Allen (1947) Ancient Egyptian Onomastica: Text, vol. 1, page 192
- ^ Perrot, Jean (2013) The Palace of Darius at Susa: The Great Royal Residence of Achaemenid Persia, pages 275, 277