It is argued that the evidence in the Books of the Netherworld attested in the New Kingdom doubtlessly proves that the signs [Gardiner D1, head] and [Gardiner T8, dagger] corresponded to dp /t’(V)p/ and dpj>dpï /t’(V)p(V)(j)/ respectively, both with emphatic dental stop, in Middle and Late Egyptian. Further evidence dating between the 3rd and the 1st millennium BCE supports this hypothesis.
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