Newborn Hartebeest (hieroglyph)
The Newborn calf (hieroglyph) is Gardiner's sign listed no. E9, in the series of ''mammals''. The hieroglyph represents ''any newborn animal'', and specifically the calf as the hieroglyph. In Egyptian hieroglyphs, the hieroglyph is used for the phonetic value of ''iu'', as well as a determinative. Budge's vocabulary dictionary for the Book of the Dead has about thirty entriesBudge, 1991. ''A Hieroglyphic Dictionary to the Book of the Dead,'' pp. 17-21. that start with ''newborn calf'', "iu". They relate to ''conceiving, crying-out (as young creatures do), and other related items''. When used with the "bone-with-meat" hieroglyph E9-F44, the reference is to ''heir''. Palermo Stone In the 2390 BC Palermo Stone, the first row of year-registers (Row I of VI, on the Palermo piece of the 7–piece stone), only contains names of the first kings of the Predynastic period of the north (Nile Delta Egypt). Below each king's name is the symbol for ''"Pharaoh w/ (Red Crown)"'' A46, t ...
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Reliefs In Edfu Temple 0168 D6
Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane. When a relief is carved into a flat surface of stone (relief sculpture) or wood (relief carving), the field is actually lowered, leaving the unsculpted areas seeming higher. The approach requires a lot of chiselling away of the background, which takes a long time. On the other hand, a relief saves forming the rear of a subject, and is less fragile and more securely fixed than a sculpture in the round, especially one of a standing figure where the ankles are a potential weak point, particularly in stone. In other materials such as metal, clay, plaster stucco, ceramics or papier-mâché the form can be simply added to or raised up from the background. Monumental bronze reliefs ar ...
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