Names With regard to Nibhurrereya the reconstructed form of this name would probably be along the lines of nib xuperw re Ancient Egyptian A Linguistic Introduction Loprieno 1995 This reconstruction reflects the neutralization of posttonic vowels and the change i e which Loprieno indicates occurred early in the new kingdom While I m at it I d like to call for the following change to be made slightly modified from my previous appeal The article gives a reconstruction of his name as tuwt ankh jama n However the Coptic descendent of twt image is indicating that would have been pronounced something like tV wa t Ancient Egyptian A Linguistic Introduction Loprieno 1995 Die Nominalbildung Des Aegyptischen Osing 1976 where V is an undetermined vowel one of e a or u in Tut s time Likewise nx living here is an active participle probably perfective so the reconstruction of this should be a n x including the effect of posttonic vowel neutralization Loprieno 1995 As for jama n Loprieno indicates that the change j before an unstressed vowel began in the early Middle Kingdom This suggests that jama n was realized as ama n by the time of Tutankhamun I therefore propose the reconstruction of his name be changed from tuwt ankh jama n to tVwa t a n x a ma n where V is a vowel of undetermined quality I have no idea where tuwt and ankh came from These just look like modified Egyptologistese to me 192 133 84 6