The
Ancient Egyptian Cobra hieroglyph is
Gardiner sign listed no. I10 for the
cobra-at-rest. The
Cobra-enraged in defensive posture,
is the famous
pharaonic Uraeus, (portrayed with Gardiner's nos. I12, I13, G16, and other Gardiner unlisted varieties).
Cobra, in hieroglyph word blocks[edit]
A variety of hieroglyph
composition blocks use the space beneath the cobra-at-rest hieroglyph. In
relief scene
iconography, the
pharaohis often:
"given life, power, dominion, ra-like, forever", in Egyptian:
di ankh, usr, djed, ra-ma, djet.
Other example phrases below the cobra are the Egyptian word for "behold!", and the hieroglyph for "speech", or "word", the Gardiner hieroglyph S43, a 'walking stick', or 'cane'.
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Palermo Stone, Djet Festival[edit]
In the 2392 BC
Palermo Stone, (the 24th to 23rd century BC, the
Royal Annals of the Old Kingdom, the previous 700 years, circa 3100-2400 BC), on the obverse of the
Palermo Piece (at Palermo Museum, 1 of the 2 large pieces of the 7—piece Palermo Stone), the
cobra-at-rest hieroglyph can be found in 4 locations. Two of them are described in the entire "King Year Record", the
register-rectangle encompassing each Year Record. They record in Row II (of VI Rows), the
(occurrence) "Year: (the) Time of the 1st Djet Festival", the
(occurrence) "Year: (the) Time of the 2nd Djet Festival", is recorded in the following Row III, of Pharaoh, King
Den. They appear as below: (the Gardiner font reads
left-to-right)
| (Time,of,First,,,Djet,Festival) |
| (procession,determinative) |
|
| (procession,determinative) |
|
Two other uses of the
cobra-at-rest hieroglyph follow: in Row IV,
Nynetjer's Year 20 record, and the 4th time in Row V.
(
Palermo Piece, obverse), Row V, 1st half.
(Note: reads right-to-left)
(note 2nd column (Year-register) on left)
The Egyptian hieroglyph alphabetic letters[edit]
Archaic forms have unique variations, as the later standard usage of the hieroglyph was commonly less important than other hieroglyphs, and was only in the common forms. One 'abbreviated' later form was a straight line with angles on each end. However, the
three ripples,
referring to
water, or waters became an important hieroglyphic block in itself.
The alternate n hieroglyph, used for the vertical, is Gardiner, no. S3. the Red Crown.
Language usage of horizontal "n"[edit]
The hieroglyphic language equivalent of the
water ripple is
n, the letter N, as a
phonogram. Its other major use is as a
preposition. However as a preposition, it is important because the prepositions are often used interchangeably; its major usage may be for
in,
to, or
by, but
from, for, 'because of', through, namely any preposition, or prepositional phrase can quickly be referred to by the common preposition
"in", as represented by the water ripple.
Rosetta Stone usage[edit]
Roya Steward Memi
lintelusage of
water ripple 'n'.
In the 196 BC
Rosetta Stone, the water ripple hieroglyph is used 203 times, averaging 6 times per line, for the 36 lines-(
Nubayrah Stele, lines 1-22, Rosetta Stone, 1-14, therefore 36). In the stone as the water ripple, besides the
preposition, it is used in names of
Arsinoe, and one
cartouche form of
Ptolemy V Epiphanes, (the Rosetta Stone author). The vertical "N" of the Red Crown is used 35 times in the Nubayrah-Rosetta Stone, mostly prepostional; (only 4 times is it used as a non-preposition). (There are also other variants of the vertical N-Red Crown, with separate
Gardiner nos. used in the Rosetta Stone, (as part of
Pschent, or a variation on Egypt: "Taui", North and South Egypt, the Two Lands).)
Two important hieroglyphic usages[edit]
In running hieroglyphic texts that are telling detailed stories, the
Ptolemaic Decrees for example, the vertical form of "N" is required as
hieroglyphic blocks sometimes end in places not always conducive to ending a block. Two half blocks can be separated, above and below by the horizontal
water ripple, or start a block, (on top), or introduce the next block, (by being on the bottom of the block). If room is not sufficient on the bottom, then a vertical form can follow to introduce the next block, thus the use of the
vertical N, the
red crown of the
Pharaoh of the
North, the
Nile Delta.
Another major usage of the horizontal water ripple-(x 3) is a separate hieroglyph "block", and, with its own ideology, and implied meaning and usage: "waters".
The
Ancient Egyptian Mouth hieroglyph is
Gardiner sign listed no. D21 for the shape of the
mouth, being open, (therefore also implying a use for speech). The word 'mouth' was pronounced
*rāˀ and there could be many more.
The symbol is also used in the representation of unit fractions; a number preceded by a mouth indicates its inverse. Example fraction hieroglyphs:
 |
(d22) |
|  |
(d23)
|
|
The
Ancient Egyptian Mat hieroglyph, (originally for a stool), and later the
Stool hieroglyph,
Gardiner sign listed no. Q3 originally was the stool's
rectangular mat; later it became the representaion for the stool itself.
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The
ancient Egyptian Hand (hieroglyph) is an
alphabetic hieroglyph with the meaning of "d"; it is also used in the word for 'hand', and actions that are performed, i.e. by the 'way of one's hands', or actions. (Used as a
determinative.)
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Iconographic usage[edit]
Rosetta Stone usage as word: "hand"[edit]
The Hand as hieroglyphic also forms the word for 'hand' in the Ancient Egyptian
hieroglyphic language: "ţet." In line 13, (R-13), one of ten ways for honoring the Pharaoh
Ptolemy V was to:
- ...."and let be engraved the Rank: "Priest of the god appearing-(epiphanous), lord of benefits -(eucharistos-Greek)", upon the rings worn on their hands-(hieroglyph)."[1]
In the 1st half of the Rosetta Stone, (the
Decree of Memphis (Ptolemy V)), supplied by the
Nubayrah Stele, line N-22, there is use of the Hand-hieroglyph as part of an important word that
implies the use of 'hands', or 'action'. In speaking of the district, or town that defiled Pharaoh, and had to be defeated, the town is referred to as: ...(the rebels)
"they led astray-(Hand hieroglyph: seţeman-sen
) the nomes."[2]
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