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unusual facts about hieroglyph



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AA-2

AA2 is Gardiner's designated symbol for the hieroglyph that represents a pustule (Aa2)

AA3

AA3, Gardiner's designated symbol for the hieroglyph that represents a pustule with liquid issuing from it

AA5

Gardiner's designated symbol for the hieroglyph for a part of steering gear of a ship

AA8

Gardiner's designated symbol for the hieroglyph for irrigation tunnels (Aa8)

Egyptian Bridge

An unusual feature was a pair of cast-iron gates featuring Egyptian-style columns, ornaments, and hieroglyphics, with many details of the ironwork elaborately gilded.

Foreleg of ox

The foreleg of ox (a foreleg with the thigh) hieroglyph of Ancient Egypt is an old hieroglyph; it even represented a nighttime constellation (the Big Dipper, Maskheti).

Great and Small Temples of Abu Simbel

For example, the façades of the Great and Small temples are carved to represent pylons – the monumental trapezoidal gates representative of the Egyptian hieroglyph for horizon characteristic of all Egyptian temples.

Hatnub

The pottery, hieroglyph inscriptions and hieratic graffiti at the site show that it was in use intermittently from at least as early as the reign of Khufu until the Roman period (c. 2589 BC–AD 300).

Jabiru

In particular, Gardiner's Egyptian hieroglyph G29, believed to depict an E. senegalensis, is sometimes labeled "Jabiru" in hieroglyph lists.

Michigan relics

In 1890, James Scotford of Edmore, Michigan, claimed that he had found a number of artifacts, including a clay cup with strange symbols and carved tablets, with symbols that looked vaguely hieroglyphic.

Painted enigma

This differed from similar visual riddles such as the emblem or hieroglyph (Horapollo's "Hieroglyphica" for instance)which were simpler in design and intended to represent moral precepts.

Rachel Jordan

She describes these abstracts as suggestive of "cellular life", citing influences from Paul Klee and Edward Hopper, as well as Roman mosaics, Islamic patterns, Egyptian hieroglyphics and the shapes revealed in aerial photography.

Saddle-billed Stork

The Third Dynasty pharaoh Khaba incorporated this hieroglyph in his name (Jiménez Serrano 2002).

Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur

The first volume appeared in 1974, with a set of guidelines appearing under a stylised representation of the s3k crocodile hieroglyph sketched by Professor Wildung.

Tanis

Many of the stones used to build the various temples at Tanis came from the old Ramesside town of Qantir (ancient Pi-Ramesses/Per-Ramesses), which caused many former generations of Egyptologists to believe that Tanis was, in fact, Per-Ramesses.


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