ḥr-m-ꜣḫt

Egyptian

Etymology

ḥr (“Horus”) +‎ m (“in”) +‎ ꜣḫt (“Akhet, place of sunrise”), thus literally meaning ‘Horus in the Akhet’.

Pronunciation

Proper noun
G5M
Axt

 m

  1. Harmachis or Horemakhet, a hypostasis of Horus as the deified Great Sphinx of Giza [New Kingdom to Greco-Roman Period]

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ḥr-m-ꜣḫt  
G5M
Axt		 pr
G5M
H_SPACE		 xAst
t pr
G5Z1
H_SPACE		 xAst
t N18
ḥr-m-ꜣḫt ḥr-m-ꜣḫt ḥr-ꜣḫt

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Ancient Greek: Ἁρμάχις (Harmákhis)

References
  • “Ḥr.w-m-ꜣḫ.t (lemma ID 107950)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022
  • Leitz, Christian, Budde, Dagmar, Dils, Peter, Goldbrunner, Lothar, Mendel, Daniela (2002) Christian Leitz, editor, Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, volumes 5: ḥ–ḫ, Leuven: Peeters, pages 238–239
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 17.15–17.16
  • Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 123.4
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