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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: labdanum jbr mꜣꜥtrue labdanum c. BCE 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 hieroglyphic writings of jbr
jb jb jbj jbrj jbr bjr jbr
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“jbr (lemma ID 23780) ”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae [1] 2004–26 July 2023 Erman, Adolf , Grapow, Hermann (1926 ) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache [2] →ISBN pages 63.10–63.14 Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962 ) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian , Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN page 15
^ From the Shipwrecked Sailor , line 140 (see quotation above); the reading of the last glyphs is uncertain: Allen reads , while Faulkner reads and the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae reads but frames it in question marks.
