The
Egyptian hieroglyph
Egyptian hieroglyphs (, ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt, used for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with some 1,000 distinct characters.There were about 1,00 ...
representing a
honey bee
A honey bee (also spelled honeybee) is a eusocial flying insect within the genus ''Apis'' of the bee clade, all native to Afro-Eurasia. After bees spread naturally throughout Africa and Eurasia, humans became responsible for the current co ...
(
π€ Gardiner L2). It is used as an ideogram for "bee" (''bjt''),
[BetrΓ², 1995. '' Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt,'' p. 117.]
but most frequently as part of the title of the
King of Upper and Lower Egypt, rendered ''nswt-bjtj'' (interpreted as "He of the Sedge and the Bee").
See also
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Gardiner's Sign List#L. Invertebrates and lesser animals
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Egyptian biliteral signs
The biliteral Egyptian hieroglyphs are hieroglyphs which represent a specific sequence of two consonants. The listed hieroglyphs focus on the consonant combinations rather than the meanings behind the hieroglyphs.
See also
*Transliteration of an ...
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Nswt-bjtj
The prenomen, also called cartouche name or throne name ( egy, π₯ wikt:nswt-bjtj, nswt-bjtj "of the Upper and Lower Egypt, Sedge and Bee") of ancient Egypt, was one of the ancient Egyptian royal titulary, five royal names of pharaohs. The first p ...
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List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign ...
References
*BetrΓ², 1995. ''
Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt,'' BetrΓ², Maria Carmela, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, )
*Budge, (1920), 1978. ''An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary,''
E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, 1978. (In two volumes, 1314 pp. and cliv-(154) pp.) (softcover, {{ISBN, 0-486-23615-3)
Egyptian hieroglyphs: invertebrates and lesser animals