Abd-sakun of Abu Simbel

CIS I 112a

‘bdskn bn ptyḥw ’š ‘l (d)lḥms

Abdsakun son of PTyehaw who sailed upstream to Abu Simbel.

 

Abdsakun = servant of Sakun (Benz p.162, Krahmalkov p.356)

 

PTyeḥaw must be: Ptḥyḥw = Ptaḥ-yeḥaw = Ptaḥ grant long live (Benz p.177, Krahmalkov p.410)

 

We know, that Abdsakun sailed up to Abu Simbel. Maybe his father Ptaḥ-yeḥaw lived somewhere else. That could be Memphis or Saqqara, where a lot of other Phoenicians lived.

The father uses the Egyptian Ptaḥ in his name, but the son has a complete Phoenician name.

Abu Simbel = dlḥms. Here is the d in the inscription lacking.

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