Magyar László szerk.: Orvostörténeti Közlemények 170-173. (Budapest, 2000)

KÖZLEMÉNYEK — COMMUNICATIONS - Győry, Hedvig: "Providing protection to a new-born on the day of his birth ". Extra-and intrauterine complications and abnormalities in ancient Egypt. — „Az újszülött védelméről gondoskodni születése napján ". Méhen kívüli és belüli komplikációk és rendellenességek az ősi Egyiptomban

— the time of birth:

44 Sp-n-jbd-6 "Gift of the 6

th month

45

— "Son of (month) Khoiak",

46 P3-dj-Hr-m-hb — "Who was given by Horus at the feast",

41 t3-sr.t- Hr-m-hb "The daughter of Horus at the feast",

4

* Imn-j w "(born while) Amon came" 49 or "who belongs to the 15

,h day",

50 or — other circumstances of delivery as prj

—snb — "if only it came out healthy",

51 prjwj- cnhj — "if only it came out living for me",

52 Jhj — "What is that?" (as exclamation during labour),

53 h3- c

rdi,.j — "if only I lived!",

54 Nfr-nn — "How beautiful it is!",

55 Wrsw — "He is big!",

56 snb-sw-mc-j — "He is healthy in my arm",

51 which data were rare mentioned in other sources.

58 They could also formulate — good wishes for life as e.g. Dd-hr-Pth-jwf/sc

ruh,

— "The face ofPtah told him/her to live!",

59 dj-Is.t / B3st.t-j3w.t — "Isis /Bastet gives old age (for him) ",

6Q dj-w

c

d.t-p3-t3w — "Uadjet gives (him) breath",

61 Xdb-Njt-jr.t-bjn.t — "Neu repels the evil eye!",

62 jmn-DO.s — "herfood is durable"

63 — or qualities,

64 etc. or the names simply could run in the family. 43 E.g. Hermann Ranke: o.e., p. 234, Jean Yoyotte: Le Soukhos de la Maréotide et d'autres cultes régionaux du dieux-crocodile d'après les cylindres du Moyen Empire, BIFAO 56, 1956, 85—; Pascal Vermis: Sur une particularité de l'onomastique du Moyen Empire RdE 22, 1970, p. 160—61. 44 Hermann Ranke: o.e., p. 176—177, 198—205, Jan Zandee: De hymnen aan Amon von Leiden I. 350, OMRO 28, 1947, p. 73—. 45 Hermann Ranke: o.e., p. 318, 13 46 Edward L.B. Terrace

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Henry G. Fischer: Treasures of Egyptian Art from the Cairo Museum, London, 1970, p. 92. 47 De Meulenaere: o.e., p. 216; W. Clarysse: Noms démotique en -iw, -m-hb et -i.ir.dj -s, Enchoria 15, 1987, p. 15, 19. 48 Wolfgang Brunsch: Untersuchungen zu den griechischen Wiedergaben ägyptischer Personennamen, Enchoria, 8, 1978, p. 115. 49 Wolfgang Brunsch: o.e., p. 83—106. 50 Hermann Ranke: o.e., p. 176. 51 Hermann Ranke: o.e., II. p. 200. 52 Hermann Ranke: o.e., II. p. 200. 53 Hermann Ranke, o.e., IL, p. 267, 10. 54 Hermann Ranke: o.e., L, p. 232, 1. 55 Hermann Ranke: o.e., L, p. 197, 13. 56 Flermann Ranke: o.e., I. p. 81, 20. 57 Hermann Ranke: o.e., II. p. 202. 58 E.g. the stele of Wahankh Intef II., Thebes (H.E. Winlock: The Eleventh Egyptian Dynasty, JNES 2, 1943, 258—59, pl. xxxvi, TPPI no. 15, p. 9—10.) 59 Jan Quaegebeur: Considérations sur le nom propre égyptien Teephthaphonukhos, Orientalia Louvaniensia Periodica, Leuven, 4, 1973, p. 92; Jan Quaegebeur: Tithoes, dieu oraculaire? Enchoria 7, 1977, p. 104; Péter Gaboda: Un magistral bronze d'Imhotep daté de l'époque de l'institutionnalisation de son culte? Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 88—89, 1998, p. 21, note 84. 60 Hermann Ranke: o.e., I. p. 396, no. 7, 16. 61 Hermann Ranker o.e., I. p. 396, no. 15. 62 Günther Vittmann: Zwei Königinnen der Spatzeit namerls Chedebnitjerbone, CdE 49/97, 1974, p. 43, note 1; Jean Sainte Fare-Garnot: Défis au destin, BIFAO 59, 1960, p. 1—28. 63 Hermann Ranke: o.e. 11., p. 204. 64 Hermann Ranke: Tiernamen als Personennamen bei den Ägyptern, ZAS 60, 1925, p. 76—83