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Did Ancient Egyptians have last names? Was there a way they themselves identified families and dynasties? If so, were they passed on from man to man like it sorta is nowadays?

ketrindoll

thatlittleegyptologist:

No. They were listed by their job first, and if they had no job it was by their parents. So X son of Y or The Goldworker Z. No last names.

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  4. thatlittleegyptologist said: @ketrindoll Yes
  5. ketrindoll said: Did the same apply to women?
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  7. thatlittleegyptologist said: @many-bees Yes, but they couldn’t in Egypt as the language died, so the names of the jobs were wiped out with the Roman invasion. It had no chance to develop into such. A lot of lastnames in non western societies are ‘son of X’ anyway, so it likely would have been that if it had continued.
  8. many-bees said: Interesting considering how many last names derive from professions
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  14. siriusly-apollo said: Fun fact: modern Egyptians don’t really have last names either, u just take the first name of your father, grandfather etc, as the name after your own first name: like “first name fathers name grandfathers name etc”.
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