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Token ID IBcBMvE5CcsGDUtnn8CQi2KaJlw

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s:ꜥḥꜥ.n =j tḫn.PL jm =s m jn(r) n(.j) mꜣṯ nfr.PL =sn ḥr tkn ḥr.t

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de
Ich habe Obelisken aus Granit in ihm aufgestellt, deren Spitzen sich dem Himmel nähern.
en
And I erected obelisks of granite in it,
whose perfection grazes the firmament,
Dating (time frame):
Ramses II. Usermaatre-Setepenre
Comments

  • nfrw: The orthography of nfrw resonates closely with the plural, ideographic writing of the word for obelisks and later the word for flagstaffs. Given its central meanings of perfection and completeness, I have associated it with the pinnacles or tops of the obelisks and doorframes (Frood, Biographical texts from Ramessid Egypt, Leiden/Boston 2007: 42), but such an extended meaning seems unparalleled. Either way, its repeated use heightens the poetic treatment of the temple’s cosmological and celestial character.

    Commentary author: Elizabeth Frood (Data file created: 11/17/2022, latest revision: 11/17/2022)

  • This refers to the now fragmentary red granite obelisks that may have been partially surrounded by a doorway during the reign of Nectanebo I or during the Roman period (PM II² 208, (1, 2); Barguet, Le temple d'Amon-Rê à Karnak: essai d’exégèse (re-edition). Cairo 2006, 224; Grallert, Bauen - Stiften - Weihen [ADAIK 18], Berlin 2001, vol. I, 325).

    Commentary author: Elizabeth Frood (Data file created: 11/17/2022, latest revision: 11/17/2022)

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Roberto A. Díaz Hernández, with contributions by Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Lisa Seelau, Elizabeth Frood, Peter Dils, Daniel A. Werning, Token ID IBcBMvE5CcsGDUtnn8CQi2KaJlw <https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/sentence/token/IBcBMvE5CcsGDUtnn8CQi2KaJlw>, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 19, Web app version 2.2.1.1, 3/6/2025, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils on behalf of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (accessed: 4/9/2025)
(Short citation)
https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/sentence/token/IBcBMvE5CcsGDUtnn8CQi2KaJlw, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (accessed: 4/9/2025)