Personal name · Egyptian
PA-JA-RE
He (of) Re: Egyptian personal name Pꜣ-Rꜥ (Gordon's Pꜣy-Rꜥ); Linear B pa-ja-ro
- Reading
- Payare
- Type
- Personal name Probable
- Language
- Egyptian Probable
- Sites
- Haghia Triada, Zakros
- Attestations
- 4
- Lexicon
- PA-JA-RE
Commentary
Four Linear A attestations behave as a personal name. Linear B pa-ja-ro is a masculine personal name in KN As(2) 1519.6 and is compared with PA-JA-RE by DMic and Davis 2026. Gordon’s Egyptian Pꜣy-Rꜥ ‘He-of-Re’ (Gordon 1966a, 31) is the man’s name pꜣ-rꜥ in PNM v6, used from Thutmose III to Amenhotep III and spelled pꜣjj-rꜥ under Hatshepsut (Ilin-Tomich 2025). See the lexicon entry.
Compared forms
From the lexicon entry PA-JA-RE.
- Egyptianpꜣ-rꜥpꜣ-rꜥ ‘he (of) Ra’, a man’s name, Thutmose III–Amenhotep III (PNM v6, personal_names_id 142613047; Ranke I, 114.11)
- Linear Bpa-ja-ro, a man on the Knossos roster KN As(2) 1519