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(I'm not an egyptologist.) The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae has a breakdown of 𓅓𓂋𓄋𓏏𓏝𓊹𓊵𓏏𓅓𓇾𓂋𓇦𓂋𓆑 / jm.j-rʾ-wpw.wt-ḥtp.w-nṯr-m-tꜣ-r-ḏr=f / "overseer of

by yorwba 1y ago

(I'm not an egyptologist.) The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae has a breakdown of 𓅓𓂋𓄋𓏏𓏝𓊹𓊵𓏏𓅓𓇾𓂋𓇦𓂋𓆑 / jm.j-rʾ-wpw.wt-ḥtp.w-nṯr-m-tꜣ-r-ḏr=f / "overseer of apportionments of the god's offering(s) in the entire land" https://tla.digital/lemma/850281 https://tla.digital/lemma/850281 with 𓇾 / tꜣ / "land" and 𓂋𓇥𓂋 / r-ḏr / "entire". So we have most of 𓇍𓇋𓏭𓂻𓍘𓇋𓇾𓂋𓇥𓂋𓈐𓆑 / jy.tj-tꜣ-r-ḏr-?? / "welcome land entire ??" except for the 𓈐𓆑 at the end where I have no idea whether it's phonetic ḥr=f or a determinative https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%93%88%90 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%93%88%90 or something else.

monoidist 1y ago
I think the =f at the end is a possessive, because r ḏr=f is an idiomatic phrase literally meaning “to its limit”. 𓇍𓇋𓏭𓂻𓍘𓇋𓇾𓂋𓇥𓂋𓈐𓆑 jy.tj t3 r ḏr=f come [STATIVE] land [VOCATIVE] to limit its “Welcome, entire land” (I’m not an Egyptologist either.)
- yorwba 1y ago
  Did you forget about the 𓈐 or does it get merged into the preceding word?
  - monoidist 1y ago
    I think 𓈐 is the end of the preceding word, ḏr. It is functioning as a logogram, not a phonogram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinative https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinative
nxobject 1y ago
What a time to be alive: my iPhone has enough Unicode coverage to display hieroglyphics… imagine thinking two decades ago that you could use disk space on a mobile device like that. (It doesn’t have the glyph layout chops, though…)