TSL_1_6480
Description: A sealed ointment jar, with ties.
Category: Vessels of stone and earthenware [Gardiner W]
Basic Form: tall narrow
Tag: perfume jar, vessel, with lid, without handle
Type: simple


Bibliography
Borghouts, J. F. (2010), Egyptian: an introduction to the writing and language of the Middle Kingdom, 2 vols. Egyptologische Uitgaven 24, page 153, note 1
Gardiner, Alan Henderson (1957), Egyptian grammar being an introduction to the study of hieroglyphs, 3rd, revised edition, page 527
Codes
Gardiner  W1
Hieroglyphica  W1
Jsesh  W1
Unicode  U+133AF 𓎯
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edited by Université de Liège and Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Credits
Creator: TSL
Editor(s): J. Grotenhuis, L. Seelau, S.D. Schweitzer
FunctionsTokensDistribution
Modern ListsPalaeographies
classifier (2 function(s))
Phonetic value Semantic value Use
— jar regular

Tokens
TokenSourceDate

mḏ.t 1 bꜣs 1
1 unguent, 1 bAs-jar
Amenhotep III Nebmaatre
Bibliography
Credits
Creator: J. Grotenhuis
Editor(s):
— oil, unguent regular

Tokens
TokenSourceDate

dj=f mw ḥnq.t snṯr mrḥ.t (j)ḫ.t nb.t wꜥb(.t) šs mnḫ.t
May he give water, beer, incense, unguent, everything good and pure, alabaster, clothing, ...
Senwosret I Kheperkare

mḏ.t 1 bꜣs 1
1 unguent, 1 bAs-jar
Amenhotep III Nebmaatre

šzp mḏ.t ḫnm snṯr
receiving unguent, smelling incense
Tutankhamun Nebkheperure
Bibliography
Gardiner, Alan Henderson (1957), Egyptian grammar being an introduction to the study of hieroglyphs, 3rd, revised edition, page 527
Credits
Creator: S.D. Schweitzer
Editor(s):

logogram (3 function(s))
Phonetic value Semantic value Use
bꜣs ointment, unguent regular
Comment technically the filled jar/vase in which it is transported.
Tokens
TokenSourceDate

ẖr.(y)w-bꜣs
the bearers of ointment
13th Dynasty
Bibliography
Borghouts, J. F. (2010), Egyptian: an introduction to the writing and language of the Middle Kingdom, 2 vols. Egyptologische Uitgaven 24, page 153
Credits
Creator: J. Grotenhuis
Editor(s): J. Grotenhuis
mrḥ.t oil, unguent regular

Tokens
TokenSourceDate

ḫꜣ t ḫꜣ ḥnq.t ḫꜣ kꜣ ḫꜣ ꜣpd ḫꜣ šs mnḫ.t ḫꜣ snṯr ḫꜣ mrḥ.t
Thousand of bread, thousand of beer, thousand of bulls, thousand of fowl, thousand of alabaster and clothing, thousand of incense, thousand of unguent.
Tuthmosis III Menkheperre (complete reign)
Bibliography
Gardiner, Alan Henderson (1957), Egyptian grammar being an introduction to the study of hieroglyphs, 3rd, revised edition, page 527
Credits
Creator: J. Grotenhuis
Editor(s):
ꜥntyw myrrh cryptographic

Tokens
TokenSourceDate

ḥtp-dj-nswt ptḥ nfr ḥr wṯs-mꜣꜥ.t dj=f ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb n kꜣ n s n ḥb mrj ꜥntyw ḥsj nfr ḥr.y mḏ.t n pr jm.y-r sḏꜣ.t rn-nfr wḥm-ꜥnḫ
An offering that the king gives of Ptah, beatiful of face, the one who elevates Maat. May he give life, wellbeing and health for the ka of the man of the festival, who myrrh loves, who the beautiful one favours, the chief of the stable of the domain of the overseer of the treasury, Rennefer, repeating life.
Amenhotep II Aakheperure
Bibliography
Credits
Creator: J. Grotenhuis
Editor(s):

phonemogram (1 function(s))
Phonetic value Semantic value Use
bꜣs — regular

Tokens
TokenSourceDate

j tnm.y pr m bꜣs.t
O, one who turns aside, who went forth from Bubastis,
18th Dynasty

pḏ.t m-ꜥ=f mj bꜣs.tt šsr=f mj sꜣ nw.t mꜣ sw wr.w bdš=sn ḥr.yt=f m jb=sn mj šm=sn (ḥr) ẖ.t n rn
the bow is with him like Bastet, his arrow is like the son of Nout. When the great ones see him, they faint, the dread of him is in their heart, as when they go (on) the belly because of the name of ...
Sety I Menmaatre
Bibliography
Borghouts, J. F. (2010), Egyptian: an introduction to the writing and language of the Middle Kingdom, 2 vols. Egyptologische Uitgaven 24, page 153
Credits
Creator: J. Grotenhuis
Editor(s):
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