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offering formula
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Noun
offering formula (plural offering formulas)
- a conventional Ancient Egyptian dedicatory text inscribed on funerary objects, beginning with the phrase ḥtp ḏj or ḥtp ḏj nswt and indicating a funerary gift authorized by the king and provided by the funerary establishment of a local god
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see offering, formula.
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