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CHICAGO DEMOTIC DICTIONARY (23 JULY 2003): 03.1
.wy n p£ hyrws "house of the hyrws"; see under hyrws title(?), below
.wy (n) hn (n) Dm£ "house of the potter of Dj®me" ( P P Phila 15, 3, & 21, 3)
..wwy..ww (n) ˙p "hidden places" (lit., "places of hiding"), a type of crypt or cenotaph (?) ( P P Berlin 3106, 5;
P P Turin 2132, 4; for discussion, see Pestman, Choachytes [1993] 225, n. c)
..wy n ˙mt "house of copper" (not "prison" as EG 53 & 309), see under ˙mt "copper," below
.wy.w ˙ry "upper places"
in compound
.wy.w hry n t£ ry.t nt qt ˙bs … n£y–s .wy.w ˙˙ry "lower places of the room which is built & roofed …
its upper places" ( P P Turin 6089, 8-9)
..wyy (n) ˙rrr∞ "house of waiting"
= side galleries at Saqqara in which wrapped & jarred ibises were stored
see Ray, Óor (1976) p. 80, n. h, & p. 140
var.
"waiting tomb" used by Theban choachytes as temporary storage chamber; see Pestman,
Choachytes (1993) pp. 439-41, §19b
w. extended meaning
"house of detention, prison"
for discussion, see H. Smith, Serapis 6 (1980) 148, n. bm, & H. Smith & Tait, Saqqâra Papyri
(1983) p. 147, n. ®, who suggested such prisons might have been "holding areas" for prisoners
not yet brought to trial & sentencing
var.
.wy.w (n) ˙rrr n.pl.
P O Óor 19 vo, 7
P P BM 10591 vo, 3/17
P P 'Onch, 8/9
E P Saq 1/frag 3, 13/19
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