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Egyptian

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Etymology

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nj zp (never) +‎ jwt (subjunctive of jwj (to come)) +‎ ḫt (thing) +‎ nb (any) +‎ jm (in, from) +‎ (.j) (first-person singular suffix pronoun), thus literally ‘never did any thing come from me’.

Pronunciation

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Phrase

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D35z
p zp
D54
t
wx t
nb
im
  1. a common formulaic protestation of goodness in tomb autobiographies: nothing bad ever happened because of me, no fault was ever found with me

Alternative forms

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Some variants omit nb from this phrase:

References

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