Akara in hieroglyphs

The Royal Titulary

From the hieroglyphic records

Throne name

Announced at the coronation and always written in a cartouche. The “official” name of the pharaoh. Also known as the Prenomen.

Throne name

Aa ka Ra

ꜤꜢ-kꜢ-rꜤ

The great one of the ka of Ra

ra-O29v-kA-G7

Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions , II, 839:13
Turin King List 9.25
Beckerath, “Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen”, 2nd ed. MÄS 49 (1999). 110-111. 26:T
Gardiner, The Royal Canon of Turin (1959) VIII, 25

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