Sentence ID IBcBMi8JjU0QAUhQgK5RWL3YPXQ



    verb_caus_3-lit
    de
    aufstellen

    SC.n.act.ngem.1sg
    V\tam.act-ant:stpr

    personal_pronoun
    de
    [Suffix Pron. sg.1.c.]

    (unspecified)
    -1sg

    substantive_masc
    de
    Obelisk

    Noun.pl.stabs
    N.m:pl

    preposition
    de
    in

    Prep.stpr.3sgf
    PREP:stpr

    personal_pronoun
    de
    [Suffix Pron.sg.3.f.]

    (unspecified)
    -3sg.f

    preposition
    de
    aus

    (unspecified)
    PREP

    substantive_masc
    de
    Stein (Material)

    (unspecified)
    N.m:sg

    nisbe_adjective_preposition
    de
    von [Genitiv]

    Adj.sgm
    PREP-adjz:m.sg

    substantive_masc
    de
    Granit

    (unspecified)
    N.m:sg

    substantive_masc
    de
    Ende

    Noun.pl.stpr.3pl
    N.m:pl:stpr

    personal_pronoun
    de
    [Suffix Pron. pl.3.c.]

    (unspecified)
    -3pl

    preposition
    de
    [mit Infinitiv]

    (unspecified)
    PREP

    verb_3-lit
    de
    (sich) nähern

    Inf
    V\inf

    substantive_fem
    de
    Himmel

    (unspecified)
    N.f:sg
de
Ich habe Obelisken aus Granit in ihm aufgestellt, deren Spitzen sich dem Himmel nähern.
en
And I erected obelisks of granite in it,
whose perfection grazes the firmament,
Author(s): Roberto A. Díaz Hernández; with contributions by: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Lisa Seelau, Elizabeth Frood, Peter Dils, Daniel A. Werning ; (Text file created: 05/08/2017, latest changes: 10/14/2024)

Comments
  • nfrw: The orthography of nfrw resonates closely with the plural, ideographic writing of the word for obelisks and later the word for flagstaffs. Given its central meanings of perfection and completeness, I have associated it with the pinnacles or tops of the obelisks and doorframes (Frood, Biographical texts from Ramessid Egypt, Leiden/Boston 2007: 42), but such an extended meaning seems unparalleled. Either way, its repeated use heightens the poetic treatment of the temple’s cosmological and celestial character.

    Commentary author: Elizabeth Frood

  • This refers to the now fragmentary red granite obelisks that may have been partially surrounded by a doorway during the reign of Nectanebo I or during the Roman period (PM II² 208, (1, 2); Barguet, Le temple d'Amon-Rê à Karnak: essai d’exégèse (re-edition). Cairo 2006, 224; Grallert, Bauen - Stiften - Weihen [ADAIK 18], Berlin 2001, vol. I, 325).

    Commentary author: Elizabeth Frood

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Roberto A. Díaz Hernández, with contributions by Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Lisa Seelau, Elizabeth Frood, Peter Dils, Daniel A. Werning, Sentence ID IBcBMi8JjU0QAUhQgK5RWL3YPXQ <https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/sentence/IBcBMi8JjU0QAUhQgK5RWL3YPXQ>, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 19, Web app version 2.2.0, 11/5/2024, 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/IBcBMi8JjU0QAUhQgK5RWL3YPXQ, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (accessed: xx.xx.20xx)