Egyptian
Etymology
snfr (“to make pleasing, fine, beautiful”) + wj (“me”), thus ‘[he] has made me fine’; compare the longer form in the serekh name nb-mꜣꜥt-snfr-wj (literally “the possessor of righteousness has made me fine”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
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- a throne name notably borne by Sneferu, a pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty
c. 1900 BCE,
The Instructions of Kagemni (
pPrisse/pBN 183) line 2.8:
- ꜥḥꜥ.n sꜥḥꜥ ḥm n(j) nswt-bjtj snfr-w(j) m nswt mnḫ m tꜣ pn r ḏr.f
- Then the majesty of the Dual King Sneferu was raised up as splendid king in this entire land.
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of snfr-wj
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Abydos King List
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Karnak King List
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Turin King List
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Descendants
- → English: Sneferu, Snofru
- → Ancient Greek: Σῶρις (Sôris)
References
- Leprohon, Ronald (2013) Denise Doxey, editor, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, →ISBN
- von Beckerath, Jürgen (1984) Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, →ISBN, pages 52–53, 178
- Lepsius, Carl Richard (1849) Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, Abtheilung II, plate 17a