Road (hieroglyph)
The Ancient Egyptian Road-with-shrubs hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. N31 for a road, "street", or pathway. It originally was a curving hieroglyph, but became a standardized straight form as well.
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The road hieroglyph is used in Egyptian hieroglyphs as an ideogram or determinative in the word w3t-(uat), for 'road'.[1] It is also a phonogram for hr, from the word hrt, also for 'road'.
Preceded by
Was scepter-(tril.) - w3s |
road-with-shrubs w3t-(uAt) |
Succeeded by
Papyrus stem-(tril.) w3dj-(uatch-uadj) | ||||||
Succeeded by
papyrus stem-(tril.)--harpoon-(bil.) --- w3dj ---- ---- u' --- |
See also
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- Gardiner's Sign List#N. Sky, Earth, Water
References
- Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, "Road", p. 162.
- Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Betrò, Maria Carmela, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, ISBN 0-7892-0232-8)
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