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Token ID IBUBd7lQe82HEEX8tfDkexwXbbI

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

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I was one efficient at the side of his master, one whose excellence exalted his speech.
Dating (time frame):
Sesostris I. Cheperkare
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, Daniel A. Werning, Token ID IBUBd7lQe82HEEX8tfDkexwXbbI <https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/sentence/token/IBUBd7lQe82HEEX8tfDkexwXbbI>, 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: 4/13/2025)
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