ḥr-m-ꜣḫt

Egyptian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hɛr ɛm ɑxɛt/
  • Conventional anglicization: hor-em-akhet

Proper noun

 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  

ḥr-m-ꜣḫt	ḥr-m-ꜣḫt	ḥr-ꜣḫt

Derived terms

• (ḥr-m-ꜣḫt-ḫprj-rꜥ-tm)

Descendants

• → Ancient Greek: Ἁρμάχις (Harmákhis)

References

• “Ḥr.w-m-ꜣḫ.t (lemma ID 107950)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 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, 2004–26 July 2023
• 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