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(I'm not an egyptologist.) The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae has a breakdown of π“…“π“‚‹π“„‹π“π“π“ŠΉπ“Š΅π“π“…“π“‡Ύπ“‚‹π“‡¦π“‚‹π“†‘ / jm.j-rΚΎ-wpw.wt-αΈ₯tp.w-nαΉ―r-m-tꜣ-r-ḏr=f / "overseer of apportionments of the god's offering(s) in the entire land" https://tla.digital/lemma/850281 with 𓇾 / tꜣ / "land" and π“‚‹π“‡₯π“‚‹ / r-ḏr / "entire".

So we have most of π“‡π“‡‹π“­π“‚»π“˜π“‡‹π“‡Ύπ“‚‹π“‡₯π“‚‹π“ˆπ“†‘ / jy.tj-tꜣ-r-ḏr-?? / "welcome land entire ??" except for the π“ˆπ“†‘ at the end where I have no idea whether it's phonetic αΈ₯r=f or a determinative https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%F0%93%88%90 or something else.

I think the =f at the end is a possessive, because r ḏr=f is an idiomatic phrase literally meaning β€œto its limit”.

π“‡π“‡‹π“­π“‚»π“˜π“‡‹π“‡Ύπ“‚‹π“‡₯π“‚‹π“ˆπ“†‘

jy.tj t3 r ḏr=f

come [STATIVE] land [VOCATIVE] to limit its

β€œWelcome, entire land”

(I’m not an Egyptologist either.)

Did you forget about the π“ˆ or does it get merged into the preceding word?

I think π“ˆ is the end of the preceding word, ḏr. It is functioning as a logogram, not a phonogram:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinative

What a time to be alive: my iPhone has enough Unicode coverage to display hieroglyphics… imagine thinking two decades ago that you could use disk space on a mobile device like that.

(It doesn’t have the glyph layout chops, though…)

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