Sentence ID IBcBMOtdtRgpZEpyuluB9ljOxhY
O ihr, alle Menschen, die urteilsfähig sind (wörtl.: die in ihren Herzen verständig sind), (ihr) Wesen (wörtl.: Seienden), die auf der Erde sind, die, die nach mir in Millionen und Millionen (von Jahren) nach einem hohen Alter kommen werden, und die, die daran gewöhnt sind, Verklärungen zu sehen (wörtl.: die, deren Herz im Sehen von Verklärungen erfahren ist),
O all people who are discerning in their hearts,
who exist, who are upon earth,
and who will come after me,
for millions and millions, after venerable old age,
whose hearts are skilled in recognizing worth,
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kḥkḥ: I have translated kḥkḥ, ‘to grow old’ (TLA lemma no. 165310), with a positive meaning. In earlier texts, such as P Westcar, it describes a more negative view of aging and decrepitude (Blackman, in: JEA 13, 1927, 187–8). These nuances of meaning were probably carried in Bakenkhons’ use of the word as well. Although the word occurs in a positive frame in the post-Ramessid text ‘A Tale of Woe’, it is determined by Aa2
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(Full citation)Roberto A. Díaz Hernández, with contributions by Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Lisa Seelau, Elizabeth Frood, Peter Dils, Sentence ID IBcBMOtdtRgpZEpyuluB9ljOxhY <https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/sentence/IBcBMOtdtRgpZEpyuluB9ljOxhY>, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, 7/26/2023, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils on behalf of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (accessed: xx.xx.20xx)(Short citation)
https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/sentence/IBcBMOtdtRgpZEpyuluB9ljOxhY, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (accessed: xx.xx.20xx)
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