Egyptian
Etymology
pr (“house, palace”) + bjtj (“king (of Lower Egypt?)”) in a direct genitive construction.
Pronunciation
Noun
m
- (rare) a kind of royal palace contrasted with pr-nswt, traditionally rendered as ‘palace of the king of Lower Egypt’ [Middle Kingdom and 18th Dynasty]
Alternative hieroglyphic writings of pr-bjtj
References
- Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926), Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 513.6
- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962), A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 89