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gold name

gold name noun: the third of the five names of the pharaonic titulary, traditionally preceded by the word nbw, usually in conjunction with a falcon.

Noun

gold name (plural gold names)

  1. (historical) The third of the five names of the pharaonic titulary, traditionally preceded by the word nbw, usually in conjunction with a falcon.
    • The fivefold titulary was consolidated at this time, and the gold name now took the falcon as a constant part of the title1990, Stephen Quirke, Who Were the Pharaohs?: A History of Their Names with a List of Cartouches, page 31
    • It may be that the name in the cartouche, at this period and in the reign of Sneferu, is in fact the ‘gold name’ (S.Schott 1956:71).2002, Toby A.H. Wilkinson, Early Dynastic Egypt, page 177

Examples of gold name in a sentence

  • Another stone-vessel inscription associates this structure with the Gold name Ren.2006, Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David Warburton, Ancient Egyptian Chronology, page 103:
  • Gold names occur rarely in this period and their meaning remains obscure.2007, Jochem Kahl, »Ra is My Lord«: Searching for the Rise of the Sun God at the Dawn of Egyptian History, page 8:

Synonyms of gold name

Forms of gold name

pluralgold names

Questions about gold name

What does gold name mean?
Gold name means the third of the five names of the pharaonic titulary, traditionally preceded by the word nbw, usually in conjunction with a falcon.
How do you use gold name in a sentence?
Another stone-vessel inscription associates this structure with the Gold name Ren.
What part of speech is gold name?
Gold name is a noun.
What is the plural of gold name?
The plural of gold name is gold names.

Words near gold name in the dictionary

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  3. gold moth
  4. gold moths
  5. Gold Mountain
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  10. gold nugget pleco
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