zp tpj

Egyptian

Etymology

zp (“time, occasion”) +‎ tpj (“first”), literally ‘first time’.

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /zɛp tɛpi/
  • Conventional anglicization: zep tepi

Noun

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1. the beginning of time, the primeval time, creation

   Synonym: pꜣwt

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of zp tpj  

zp tp	zp tp	zp tp	zp tp

References

• “zp-tp.j (lemma ID 132610)”, 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
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1929) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 3, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 438.1–438.6
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1931) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 5, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 278.3–278.4
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 222