pr nfr

From pr (“house”) +‎ nfr (“pleasing, fine, good”).

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /pɛr nɛfɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: per nefer

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1. funerary workshop, mortuary, place where bodies are embalmed [since the Middle Kingdom]
   • c. 2035–1990 BCE, late 11th Dynasty, Stele of Abkau (Louvre C15), line x+9:

     
     

     qrsw m ꜥš wꜣḏ zẖꜣ(.w) ḫt(.w) m ḥꜣt-ꜥ pr nfr wj m nbw n(j) sṯn ẖkr(.w) m ḫsbḏ mꜣꜥ mj jrrt n ꜣḫ ꜥpr(.w)

     A sarcophagus of fresh Cilician fir, painted and engraved as the foremost one of the funerary workshop, and a golden mummy case of distinction, decorated with true lapis lazuli, like what is done for an equipped akh-spirit.

• “pr-nfr (lemma ID 60680)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 517.11
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89