wꜣg

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /wɑɡ/
  • Conventional anglicization: wag

 3-lit.

1. (intransitive, hapax legomenon) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. to shout for joy, to celebrate

 m

1. the Wag-festival, a festival honoring the dead and Osiris, celebrated on the 17th, 18th, or 19th day of the month of Thoth [Pyramid Texts to 26th Dynasty]
   • c. 5th Dynasty, 2454-2311 BCE, Lintel of Enseperi (Cleveland 1920.1993), main inscription:[1]

     
     
     
     

     ḥtp-ḏj-nswt jnpw ḫnt(j) qrst z(mj)t
     jmntt nb (j)mꜣḫ ḫr nṯr ꜥꜣ prt-ḫrw
     ḏḥwtt wꜣg sꜣḏ prt mnw
     ꜣbd smdt tp(j) rnpt wp rnpt rkḥ wꜣḫ ꜥḥ
     rḫ-nswt jmj-r st nj-spr(.j)

     A royal offering of Anubis, the Foremost: a burial in the
     western desert (for) the possessor of reverence before the great god, and an invocation offering
     (on) the festival of Thoth, the wag-festival, the sadj-festival, the emergence of Min,
     the monthly festival, the half-monthly festival, the first of the year, the opening of the year, and the burning festival of setting up the brazier
     (for) the acquaintance of the king, the overseer of the storehouse, Enseperi.

   • c. 1550 BCE – 1295 BCE, Great Hymn to Osiris (Stela of Amenmose, Louvre C 286) lines 8–9:

     drp n.f nbw nb sḫꜣw m pt m tꜣ ꜥšꜣ hy m wꜣg jrrw n.f jhhy jn tꜣwj m bw wꜥ

     All make offerings to him, the possessor of remembrance in the sky and on the earth, numerous of cries of joy at the wag-festival, for whom the Two Lands (Egypt) make jubilation as one.

• Hoch, James (1997) Middle Egyptian Grammar, Mississauga: Benben Publications, →ISBN, page 138
• Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache, volume 1, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, page 262.18, 263.1–263.5
• Faulkner, Raymond (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 55
• Global Egyptian Museum, PM 5999