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Gundacker, Roman (2023)
Haremhab und Ar-ma-a-aš. Einige ägyptologisch-sprachwissenschaftliche Bemerkungen.
In: Lingua Aegyptia, Journal of Egyptian Language Studies 31, 91–132.
Lengths of the embargo period: Open Access
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37011/lingaeg.31.04
Abstract
“Haremhab and Ar-ma-a-aš. Some Egyptological and Linguistic Remarks”
In recent years, a high-ranking personage Ar-ma-a- (Ar-ma-a-aš) in a Hittite cuneiform letter from the time of the late Egyptian 18th Dynasty has been identified with Haremhab, generalissimo under Tutankhamun and
later king himself. Despite convincing reconstructions of historical events and courses of events, substantial linguistic difficulties, among them the representation of Egyptian ḥ as cuneiform ḫ or its ommission, have not been addressed from an Egyptological perspective. This contribution reviews previous research and analyses the onomastic and linguistic background to the result that Egyptian ḥ, if preserved in Egyptian itself, is always rendered with cuneiform ḫ, and that Ar-ma-a- (Ar-ma-a-aš) therefore cannot represent the Egyptian full name Haremhab. Instead, and following a widespread practice of Egyptian officials to use
hypocoristic names in cuneiform correspondence, it is a hypocoristic name *(’)ăr-mắ derived from the full name Haremhab which Haremhab must have used prior to his ascension to the throne.
Project
Challenging Time(s)´ – A New Approach to Written Sources for Ancient Egyptian Chronology ( CT)
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 757951 and is hosted at the Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
The results published are solely within the author’s responsibility and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Research Council or the European Commission who must not be held responsible for either contents or their further use.
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