Sun (hieroglyph)
The Ancient Egyptian Sun hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. N5 for the sun-disc;[1] it is also one of the hieroglyphs that refers to the god Ra.
The sun hieroglyph is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs as a determinative to refer to events of time, for example when referring to '"day xx" (of month yy') . Even the "snap-of-the-finger", a 'moment', or 'instant' of time is represented using a Hippopotamus head (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. F3:
, with the sun-disc:
, as the time determinative in a hieroglyphic composition block.
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In the 24th century BC Palermo Stone, the sun hieroglyph is used on the Palermo Piece-(obverse) of the 7-piece Palermo Stone to identify dates, or specific "day-events", ..."day of ...." A few of the King Year-Register's are dates only for example in Row V (of VI rows):
For: "Month 2,
, Day
23" (number 10, 10, 3).
Some other common hieroglyphs based on the sun hieroglyph, are the Sun-with-rays (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. N8:
, and Sun-rising (hieroglyph)-(Coronations, "Appearance of..."-Palermo Stone), no. N28.
. In the 24th century BC Palermo Stone: "Appearance of the King of the South and Appearance of the King of the North".
Luwian hieroglyph
The Luwian language hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs has 7 varieties for the syllable of 's' and 'a'. For 'sa' number 4 (Sa4).
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See also
- Gardiner's Sign List#N. Sky, Earth, Water
- List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Sun rising-Coronation (hieroglyph)
References
- Collier and Manley, 1998, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, C1, sun-disc, p. 136.
- Collier, Mark, and Manley, Bill, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, c 1998, University of California Press, 179 pp, (with a word Glossary, p 151-61: Title Egyptian-English vocabulary; also an "Answer Key", 'Key to the exercises', p 162-73) (hardcover, ISBN 0-520-21597-4)
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