Ancient Egypt
Elements of its Cultural History

  by Sjef Willockx

  
 


Gods in the DZA

The DZA (Das digitalisierte Zettelarchiv) holds thousands of "Zettel" (slips, or notes) with hand-written examples of the use of names of gods in ancient Egypt. These include quotes from the Pyramid Texts, Coffin Texts, Book of the Dead, and many inscriptions from temples and tombs. This material has not yet been made accessible in a structured way, but for those with patience it is still worthwhile to browse around in. To facilitate this, I have listed for this particular corpus the first slip-number per god.

The DZA can be found at this URL: http://aaew.bbaw.de/

Transliteration
 

Name

Starting number

imn

Amun

1.000.001

Ast

Isis

1.007.172

inpw

Anubis

1.010.628

itm

Atum

1.011.891

wp-wAwt

Wepwawet

1.013.606

wnn-nfr

Wennefer

1.014.185

wsir

Osiris

1.015.089

bAstt

Bastet

1.022.750

ptH

Ptah

1.023.040

mwt

Mut

1.025.089

mnw

Min

1.025.631

mntw

Montu

1.026.316

nt

Neith

1.026.896

nbt-hwt

Nephthys

1.027.277

ra

Re

1.027.873

Hr

Horus

1.035.664

Hwt-Hr

Hathor

1.045.339

xnsw

Khonsu

1.048.665

xnwm

Khnum

1.049.347

skr

Sokar

1.050.047

skrt

Sokaret

1.050.883

sbk

Sobek

1.050.885

sxmt

Sakhmet

1.051.371

stX

Seth

1.051.927

Sw

Shu

1.053.032

gb

Geb

1.054.018

tfnt

Tefnut

1.055.204

DHwty

Thoth

1.055.735

illegible

 

1.057.551

addenda

 

1.057.691

As you can see, this is just a selection of divine names. For those that are not in this list, the "Belegstellen" (references) can be reached in the normal way: through the hyperlinks in the Wörterbuch.
A comparable corpus of slips exists for the names of kings. These start at 1.100.010.

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