The vertical
carob
The carob ( ; ''Ceratonia siliqua'') is a flowering evergreen tree or shrub in the Caesalpinioideae sub-family of the legume family, Fabaceae. It is widely cultivated for its edible fruit pods, and as an ornamental tree in gardens and landscap ...
M29 (Gardiner M29) and the vertical date
M30 (Gardiner M30) have identical meanings in the
Egyptian hieroglyphic
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 ...
language of "sweet", and related words. The carob (hieroglyph) is a ''ripe carob pod w/seeds'', and its meaning of "sweet" extends to items of taste, smell, and touch.
[Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998. '']Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook
The ''Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook'' is part of a new genre of books focused on Egyptian hieroglyphs. The book is a graphics based book with four to seven word examples of each Egyptian hieroglyph; the words are graphically explained for e ...
'', triliteral T13, pp. 268-69.
In Budge's compendium dictionary, there are fifteen entries with ', and related words. Six of them are a doubling of the word, ' related to passion, concubines, etc.
See also
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Gardiner's Sign List#M. Trees and Plants
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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
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Egyptian hieroglyphs: trees and plants