ẖꜣyt

See also: ḥꜣyt and ḫꜣyt

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Noun
XAAiitAa2
Z2ss

 f

  1. heap of corpses
    • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 130–132:
      xprr
      n      		 rsD35
      n      		 wA1Hn
      a      		 AmQ7n
      y      		 D35
      n      		 wA1mHr
      r      		 ibsn
      Z2
      aHaa
      n      		 A1mt
      Z6      		 kWA1nsn
      Z2      		 gmmn&A1 stmXAAiitAa2
      Z2ss      		 waa
      t Z1
      ḫpr.n r.s nn wj ḥnꜥ(w) ꜣm.nj nn wj m ḥr(j) jb.sn ꜥḥꜥ.n.j m(w)t.kw n.sn gm.n.j st m ẖꜣyt wꜥt
      But it happened while I wasn’t with them, and they burned up while I wasn’t in their midst. Then I died for them, having found them as a single heap of corpses.

Alternative forms
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of ẖꜣyt  
xAAiit
A98
Z2
ḫꜣyt

References
  • James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 237, 298.
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