Pr (hieroglyph)

Pr ( 𓉐 Gardiner sign listed no. O1) is the hieroglyph for 'house', the floor-plan of a walled building with an open doorway.

While its original pronunciation is not known with certainty, modern Egyptology assigns it the value of per, but purely on the basis of a convention specific to the discipline. However, the Ancient Greek rendering of the title pr-`3 as φαραώ pharaō suggests the reconstruction of the historical (Late Egyptian) pronunciation as *par, see Pharaoh.

Pr combined with an associated "personal name", god, or location becomes the "house of .... ." An example for pharaoh Setnakhte is the city of: Pr-Atum, (city of Pithom). Pr and ankh-(life) is a "combination hieroglyph" and is the "word" for house of life. The "house of life" is a library for papyrus books-(scrolls), as well as a possible scriptorium.

The shape of pr in beginning dynasties had variations in the shape of a square, with the opening. See Garrett Reference for tomb of Official Ti.

Pr is one of hieroglyphs adopted into the Proto-Sinaitic script, the earliest known alphabetic writing system. It was used to represent the phoneme /b/ as in bayt, the Canaanite word for "house", after the hieroglyph's original meaning. The Latin letter B is a distant descendant of this letter.

"Pr-name" /associations

 * pr-aa– Pharaoh
 * pa-pr-aa– Papyrus
 * Pr-Ab– Thoth
 * Per-Amun– Pelusium
 * Pr-Aat– Heliopolis
 * Pr-Atum– House of Atum: Heliopolis
 * Pr-Atum– Setnakhte
 * Pr-Banebdjedet– Mendes
 * Pr-Bast– House of Bast: Bubastis
 * Pr-Bastet– Zagazig
 * Pr-Djet– a type of early Egyptian tomb
 * Pr-Hai– Malqata
 * Pr-Hay– Amenhotep III
 * Pr-Hay– Great Temple of the Aten
 * Pr-Hathor– Aphroditopolis
 * Pr-Hedj– Treasury (House of Silver)
 * Pr-Medjat– Library
 * Pr-Nebu– Treasury (House of Gold)
 * Pr-Nebyt– Ramesses V
 * Pr-Nemty– Hieracon
 * Pr-Ramesses– Avaris, History of ancient Egypt
 * Pr-Sekhemkheperre– Osorkon I
 * Pr-Sopdu– Sopdu
 * Pr-t– Season of the Emergence
 * Pr-Temu Tjeku– Necho II
 * Pr-Wadjet– Buto, Wadjet
 * Pr-Yinepu– Anubis