Information about Pr (hieroglyph)

House
( " floor plan " )
in hieroglyphs

Pr is the hieroglyph for 'house', the floor-plan of a walled building with an open doorway. Though its original pronunciation is unknown, modern egyptology assigns it the value of Per.

Pr combined with an associated "personal name", god, or location becomes the "House of .... ." An example for pharaoh Setnakhte is the city of: Pr-Atum, (city of Pithom).

The shape of Pr in beginning dynasties had variations in the shape of a square, with the opening. See Garrett Reference for tomb of Official Ti.

House of Life

House of Life
"library"
in hieroglyphs

Pr and Ankh-(Life) is a "combination hieroglyph" and is the "word" for House of Life. The House of Life is a library for papyrus books-(scrolls), as well as a possible scriptorium.

"Pr-name" /associations

pr-aa– Pharaoh
pa-pr-aa– Papyrus
Pr-Ab– Thoth
Per-Amun– Pelusium
Pr-Ankh– Kemetic reconstructionism
Pr-Heh– Kemetic reconstructionism
Pr-Aat– Heliopolis (ancient)
Pr-Atum– Heliopolis (ancient)
Pr-Atum– Setnakhte
Pr-Banebdjedet– Mendes
Pr-Bast– Bast (mythology)
Pr-Bast– Bubastis
Pr-Bastet– Zagazig
Pr-Hai– Malqata
Pr-Hay– Amenhotep III

Pr-Hay– Great Temple of the Aten
Pr-Hathor– Aphroditopolis
Pr-Hedj– Treasury (House of Silver)
Pr-Medjat– Library
Pr-Nebu– Treasury (House of Gold)
Pr-Nebyt– Ramesses V
Pr-Nemty– Hieracon
Pr-Ramesses– Avaris, History of ancient Egypt
Pr-Sekhemkheperre– Takelot III
Pr-Sopdu– Sopdu
Pr-t– Season of the Emergence
Pr-Temu Tjeku– Necho II
Pr-Wadjet– Buto, Wadjet
Pr-Yinepu– Anubis

External link

Pr-Ankh-Pr; Article

References

Garrett, Kenneth. Treasures of Egypt, Nationaal Geographic Collector's Ed. No. 5. Kenneth Garrett, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 2003. Wall scenery hieroglyphs of 5th Dyn. Ti (Egyptian official), in Ti's tomb.

Egyptian hieroglyphs
Child systems Hieratic

ISO 15924 Egyp

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Egyptian hieroglyphs (sometimes called hieroglyphics
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name (etymology: from OE nama; akin to OHG namo, Latin nomen, nominis, and Greek όνομα, ultimately from PIE: *nomn- ^[1]
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God

General approaches
Agnosticism Atheism
Deism Dystheism
Henotheism Ignosticism
Monism Monotheism
Natural theology Nontheism
Pandeism Panentheism
Pantheism Polytheism
Theism Theology
Transtheism

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Dynasties of Pharaohs
in Ancient Egypt
Predynastic Egypt
Protodynastic Period
Early Dynastic Period
1st 2nd
Old Kingdom
3rd 4th 5th 6th
First Intermediate Period
7th 8th 9th 10th
11th (Thebes only)

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Nebty
name

<hiero>G16</hiero>
<hiero>t:G43:t-A53-N28:D36-Z2-W19</hiero> Tutkhaumitatjenen

Golden
Horus Sekhemkhepeshder(kher)uef

Consort(s) Tiy-merenese

Died 1186 BC

Burial KV14
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Pithom (Hebrew: פתם) or HeroÃ¶polis or Heroonopolis (Greek: Ἠοώων πόλις or Ἡρώ, Strabo xvi. 759, 768, xvii.
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The ankh (symbol ☥) was the Egyptian hieroglyphic character that originally stood for the Egyptian word ˁnḫ
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library is a collection of information, sources, resources, and services: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. In the more traditional sense, a library is a collection of books.
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Papyrus is an early form of thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt.
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Scriptorium (plural scriptoria) comes from the medieval Latin script-, scribere (to write), where -orium is the neuter singular ending for adjectives describing place. Thus, a scriptorium is literally "a place for writing".
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Thoth (his Greek name derived from the Egyptian *ḏiḥautī, written by Egyptians as ḏḥwty
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Pelusium was a city in the eastern extremes of Egypt's Nile Delta, 30 km to the southeast of the modern Port Said. Alternative names include Sena and Per-Amun (Egyptian, Coptic: Paramoun meaning House or Temple of Amun), Pelousion
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Kemetism (from k.mt, the native name of Ancient Egypt) is a term for neopagan revivals of Ancient Egyptian religion which developed in the United States from the 1970s.
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Heliopolis (Greek: Ἡλίου πόλις or Ἡλίουπόλις
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For information about the Portuguese language surname Mendes, see .

Mendes (Μένδης), the Greek name of Ancient Egyptian city of Djedet
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In Egyptian mythology, Bast (also spelled Bastet, Baset, Ubasti, and Pasht) is an ancient solar and war goddess, worshipped at least since the Second Dynasty. The centre of her cult was in Per-Bast (Bubastis in Greek), which was named after her.
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Bubastis (Greek: Βούβαστις, Herod. ii. 59, 137, or Βούβαστος, Strabo xvii. p. 805, Diodorus xvi. 51, Plin. v. 9. s.
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Zagazig (Zakazik, Arabic, Az-Zaqāzīq الزقازيق), is a town of Lower Egypt (
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In Egypt on the shore of the river Nile near present-day Luxor lies the site of Malqata, a palace of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. The palace was built in the 14th century BC and its ancient name was Per-Hay, "House of Rejoicing".
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Kanakht Emkhaimaat
The strong bull, appearing in truth

Nebty
name

<hiero>G16</hiero>
<hiero>s-mn:n:Y1-O4:p-Z2:w-s-W11:r-V28-a:N17:N17</hiero> Semenhepusegerehtawy
One establishing laws, pacifying the two lands
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The Great Temple of the Aten is located in the abandoned city of Akhetaten (modern Amarna, in Egypt). It is one of the 2 major temples in the city, the other being the Small Aten Temple.
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Aphroditopolis is the Greek name given to two Egyptian cities:

Tpyhwt in Ancient Egypt, Petpeh in Coptic, today known as Atfih.
Per Hathor in Ancient Egypt, Pathyris or Aphroditopolis

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treasury is any place where the currency or items of high monetary value are kept. The term was first used in Classical times to describe the votive buildings erected to house gifts to the gods, such as the Siphnian Treasury in Delphi or many similar buildings erected in Olympia,
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Pr (hieroglyph)

House of Life

"Pr-name" /associations

See also

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