M., E. (2019). THE MEANING OF THE WORD ins THROUGH ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHIC TEXTS. Egyptian Journal of Archaeological and Restoration Studies, 9(1), 69-78. doi: 10.21608/ejars.2019.38447
Eltoukhy M.. "THE MEANING OF THE WORD ins THROUGH ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHIC TEXTS". Egyptian Journal of Archaeological and Restoration Studies, 9, 1, 2019, 69-78. doi: 10.21608/ejars.2019.38447
M., E. (2019). 'THE MEANING OF THE WORD ins THROUGH ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHIC TEXTS', Egyptian Journal of Archaeological and Restoration Studies, 9(1), pp. 69-78. doi: 10.21608/ejars.2019.38447
M., E. THE MEANING OF THE WORD ins THROUGH ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHIC TEXTS. Egyptian Journal of Archaeological and Restoration Studies, 2019; 9(1): 69-78. doi: 10.21608/ejars.2019.38447
THE MEANING OF THE WORD ins THROUGH ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHIC TEXTS
Egyptology dept., Faculty of Archaeology, South Valley Univ., Luxor branch, Luxor, Egypt
Abstract
The word ins is related to the red color in general, ins which means the “Red Linen/Cloth” is derived from it, expressing a material/garment in the texts, it gives the meanings of red linen, red cloth, red garment/ fabric, and red bandage/mummifying bandage, also it happened that it was used in different positions related to divine names/ titles (such as: nb-ins, nbt-ins, jmj-ins.f, and insjtj), each of them is related to a specific God (Osiris, Re, Hathor, Mut, Sekhmet, Bastet, and Sekhmet-Bastet-Rat ); also there is a feast related to ins (HAb-ins). Also the word inst which is a plant, which could be with red flower could be derived from ins. This paper is dealing with the word ins, its different writings in different positions, each gives a special meaning, and it is import-ance to be participated in several divine names in Ancient Egypt until the end of the late period and before the Greco-Roman period.