单词 | Sem |
释义 | Sem Egyptol.|sɛm| Also sam. [Egyptian.] An Egyptian officiating priest who wore a distinctive robe made from a leopard's skin. Also attrib. as sem priest. Cf. setem.
1882G. Rawlinson Hist. Anc. Egypt I. xi. 438 The ‘Sem’,..or officiating high-priest, wore, as his costume of office, a complete leopard-skin, with head, claws, and tail. 1898E. A. T. W. Budge tr. Bk. Dead cxvi. 181 The goddess Maāt is carried by the arm of him who eateth the Eye, and who is its divine judge, and the Sem priest carrieth me over upon it. 1910Hastings's Encycl. Relig. & Ethics III. 538/1 Canonical part of the dress of the sam priest. 1927H. Carter Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen II. 28 Ay as king with royal insignia, clad in a leopard's skin of the Sem priest. |

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