jꜣt

Noun

 * 1) mound, especially as a sacred site or location in the Afterworld
 * 2) ruin, mound of ruins
 * 3) cultivated land, fields
 * 4)  regions, lands, foreign lands

Usage notes
In late writings this word becomes confused with and is often written identically.

Alternative forms
Possibly, following Gardiner’s suggestion, may also be merely a variant writing of this word.

Noun

 * 1)  spine, backbone
 * 2)  back
 * 3)  middle of a body of water (lake or river)

Descendants

 * (in, pronominal state of )
 * (in, pronominal state of )

Noun

 * 1) standard for carrying cultic images and objects

Usage notes
The above quotes constitute all the known attestations of this word.

Allen, in his translation of the Pyramid Texts, renders this word as ‘peak’, presumably identifying it with above. Shmakov disputes this reading and takes as a body of water based on the determinatives and a mention of  found in the Coffin Texts (CT III, 204f), rendering it ‘’s standard lake’, but noting that a reading ‘lower standard’ is also possible. In this case the term would be an extended use of above, in the role of a proper name. Shmakov notes in this regard that this word for ‘standard’ is also found written with the sign  in PT 254.39 (Pyr. 288c), W (see alternative forms under that term above).

Proper noun

 * , a goddess who serves as nurse to the dead, likely a goddess of milk

Derived terms
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