jbr

Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /ibɛr/
  • Conventional anglicization: iber

Noun

 m

1. a kind of valuable oil or unguent, applied to the body and hair, used in temple cults, and also used medicinally; further details are uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. labdanum

   ― jbr mꜣꜥ ― true labdanum

   • c. 2000 BCE – 1900 BCE, Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor (pHermitage/pPetersburg 1115) lines 140–142:

     
     

     dj.j jn.t(w) n.k jbj ḥknw jwdnb ẖsꜣyt sntr n(j) gsw prw sḥtpw nṯr nb jm.f

     I will have them bring you labdanum, ḥknw-oil, jwdnb-incense, cassia, and the incense of the temple storerooms, with which every god is made content.

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of jbr  

jb	jb	jbj	jbrj	jbr	bjr	jbr
[Old Kingdom]	[Old Kingdom]	[Middle Kingdom]	[18th Dynasty]	[18th Dynasty]	[19th Dynasty]	[Greco-Roman Period]

References

• “jbr (lemma ID 23780)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎^[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[2], volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 63.10–63.14
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 15