gold name

plural gold names

1. historicalEgyptologyThe third of the five names of the pharaonic titulary, traditionally preceded by the word nbw, usually in conjunction with a falcon.

   Gold names occur rarely in this period and their meaning remains obscure.

   2007, Jochem Kahl, »Ra is My Lord«: Searching for the Rise of the Sun God at the Dawn of Egyptian History, page 8

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   The fivefold titulary was consolidated at this time, and the gold name now took the falcon as a constant part of the title

   1990, Stephen Quirke, Who Were the Pharaohs?: A History of Their Names with a List of Cartouches, page 31

   It may be that the name in the cartouche, at this period and in the reign of Sneferu, is in fact the ‘gold name’ (S.Schott 1956:71).

   2002, Toby A.H. Wilkinson, Early Dynastic Egypt, page 177

   Another stone-vessel inscription associates this structure with the Gold name Ren.

   2006, Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David Warburton, Ancient Egyptian Chronology, page 103

   Synonyms: Golden Horus name, Horus of Gold name, golden falcon name