jwsw
Egyptian
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edit- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iuːsuː/
- Conventional anglicization: iusu
Noun
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- balance scales, especially handheld scales [Middle Kingdom literature to Late Period]
- c. 1860–1839 BCE, The Eloquent Peasant, version B1 (Papyrus Berlin P 3023), 353–354:
- jn gsꜣ jwsw
- Does a balance tilt?
- c. 1860–1839 BCE, The Eloquent Peasant, version B1 (Papyrus Berlin P 3023), 353–354:
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editReferences
edit- Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 14
- Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache[1], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 6, 57.18–57.19
- James P[eter] Allen (2010) Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, 2nd edition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, pages 132, 284.