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jnk mnḫ r-gs nb =f smnḫ(.w).n jqr =f ḏd =f

    jnk
    personal_pronoun
    de ich [Selbst. Pron. sg.1.c]
    (unspecified)
    1sg
    mnḫ
    verb_3-lit
    de vortrefflich sein; trefflich machen
    Partcp.act.ngem.sgm
    V\ptcp.act.m.sg
    r-gs
    preposition
    de an der Seite von
    (unspecified)
    PREP
    nb
    substantive_masc
    de Herr
    Noun.sg.stpr.3sgm
    N.m:sg:stpr
    =f
    personal_pronoun
    de [Suffix Pron. sg.3.m.]
    (unspecified)
    -3sg.m
    smnḫ(.w).n
    verb_caus_3-lit
    de vortrefflich machen
    Rel.form.n.sgm.nom.subj
    V\rel.m.sg-ant
    jqr
    substantive_masc
    de Vortrefflichkeit
    Noun.sg.stpr.3sgm
    N.m:sg:stpr
    =f
    personal_pronoun
    de [Suffix Pron. sg.3.m.]
    (unspecified)
    -3sg.m
    ḏd
    verb_2-lit
    de sagen; mitteilen
    Inf.stpr.3sgm
    V\inf:stpr
    =f
    personal_pronoun
    de [Suffix Pron. sg.3.m.]
    (unspecified)
    -3sg.m

en I was one efficient at the side of his master, one whose excellence exalted his speech.

Dating (time frame): Sesostris I. Cheperkare
Author(s): Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils; with contributions by: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Peter Dils, Johannes Jüngling, Lutz Popko (Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015), latest changes: 10/13/2023)
Comments

  • - smnḫ.w.n jqr=f ḏd=f: Edel (1971, 14) proposes: "one whom his excellence and speech exalted" or "exalted by his excellence, namely his speech". I am taking the smnḫ.n as a relative form with jqr=f as subject and ḏd=f as object, reflecting the stress on rhetorical abilities that is so prominent in the biographies of this time (e.g. Djefaihapi); cf. also Junge, Die Lehre des Ptahhotep und die Tugenden der ägyptischen Welt (OBO 193), Fribourg and Göttingen 2003, 137-139 and Hutto, Ancient Egyptian Rhetoric in the Old and Middle Kingdom, in: Rhetorica 20, 2002, 213-233, esp. 223-226.
    - ḏd=f: Heute weitestgehend zerstört, aber noch von Budge, in: PSBA 10, 1888, 35 kopiert.

    Commentary author: Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils; with contributions by: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Peter Dils; Data file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015), latest revision: 11/25/2016

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Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils, with contributions by Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Peter Dils, Johannes Jüngling, Lutz Popko, Sentence ID IBUBdzvUhS06o04ksewrIUcnfuY <https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/sentence/IBUBdzvUhS06o04ksewrIUcnfuY>, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.4, 6/27/2023, 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: xx.xx.20xx)
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