• Source: Pr (hieroglyph)

Pr (𓉐 Gardiner sign listed no. O1) is the hieroglyph for 'house', the floor-plan of a walled building with an open doorway.
While its original pronunciation is not known with certainty, modern Egyptology assigns it the value of per, but purely on the basis of a convention specific to the discipline. However, the Ancient Greek rendering of the title pr-`3 as Ancient Greek: φαραώ pharaō suggests the reconstruction of the historical (Late Egyptian) pronunciation as *par, see Pharaoh#Etymology.

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). 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.
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.
Pr is one of hieroglyphs adopted into the Proto-Sinaitic script, the earliest known alphabetic writing system. It was used to represent the phoneme /b/ as in bayt, the Canaanite word for "house", after the hieroglyph's original meaning. The Latin letter B is a distant descendant of this letter.




"Pr-name" /associations






See also


List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
Pr-Bast
Pr-Medjed
Pr-Nemty
Pr-Wadjet
Pi-Ramesses
Pi-Sekhemkheperre
Per-Sopdu
Egyptian biliteral signs
The dictionary definition of Bet (letter) at Wiktionary




Notes


The Per Ankh was also known as "The House of Life."It was made by Thoth, the Egyptian god.




References



Garrett, Kenneth. Treasures of Egypt, National Geographic Collector's Ed. No. 5. Kenneth Garrett, Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 2003.




External links


Per-Ankh ; Article ; List of sources to the Per-ankh
Per-ankh: The House of Life

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