DI-DI-KO-RA-ME-TA₂
personal name, 'The ka of Re endures, the reliable one' (Egyptian)
- Reading
- Djed-ka-Re meti
- Confidence
- Speculative
- Root
- ḏd-kꜣ-rꜥ + mtj
- Kind
- Personal name
- Language
- Middle Egyptian
- Rank
- —
Compared forms
- Egyptianḏd-kꜣ-rꜥ, a man’s name (Ranke I, 412.17); mtj ‘the reliable one’ (TLA lemma 853566)
Attestations1 cited
- ZA 11aDI-DI-KO-RA-ME-TA₂ *516
Commentary
ZA 11a .1 DI-DI-KO-RA-ME⌊ ⌋TA₂ · *516 ·, the holder of an account of grain, wine and olives; the destroyed space before TA₂ could have held a divider (GORILA III 173), and SigLA reads one word. Egyptian ḏd-kꜣ-rꜥ ‘the ka of Re endures’ (Ranke I, 412.17) with mtj ‘the reliable one’ (TLA lemma 853566): DI-DI writes ḏd as in DI-DI-KA-SE, KO kꜣ as in KO-SA-I-TI, ME-TA₂ mtj on TA₂‘s value t. A locally made scarab from Sidon names an MB IIB lord Ḏdkꜣrꜥ, ’beloved of Seth, lord of Iꜣy‘ (Mourad 2014, I, 319; II, 149). Rival: DI-DI-KO · RA-ME-TA₂, Egyptian rmṯ ’people, personnel' (TLA lemma 450402), which leaves DI-DI-KO unread. One attestation. See DU-DA-MA.
On the 3D inscriptions
Not written on any of the 82 inscriptions modelled so far.