Die nfr-Hr-Konstruktion in den königlichen Stelen der 18. Dynastie vor der Amarna-Zeit

Abstract

“The nfr-Hr-construction in the Royal stelae of the 18th Dynasty before the Amarna Period” This article deals with the evidence of the so-called nfr-Hr-construction in the Royal stelae of the 18th dynasty before the Amarna period. After short preliminaries about the language of the Royal stelae of this period and the appearance of the nfr-Hr-construction in Earlier Egyptian and Later Egyptian in general the evidence of the corpus under observation is presented in detail. The result is that in almost all cases the nfr-Hr-construction behaves in the expectable classical manner of Earlier Egyptian. There are only few examples diverging from the standard usage. They might show a kind of “classicistic” usage, which appears to be classical, but is not attested in the earlier language periods.