The
ancient Egyptian Face hieroglyph,
Gardiner sign listed no. D2 is a portrayal of the ''human face, frontal view.''
It is an
Egyptian language
The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead language, dead Afroasiatic languages, Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large Text corpus, corpus of surviving texts which were made acces ...
biliteral with the value ''hr'', αΈ₯r. The sign is also an
ideogram
An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek "idea" and "to write") is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept, independent of any particular language, and specific words or phrases. Some ideograms are comprehensible only by familiarit ...
for 'face', and related words.
Preposition usage
The Face hieroglyph is used as a
preposition
Prepositions and postpositions, together called adpositions (or broadly, in traditional grammar, simply prepositions), are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (''in'', ''under'', ''towards'', ''before'') or mark various ...
, and in preposition constructs. The common meanings for the single face are: in, at, upon, on, by, etc.
[Budge, 1991. ''A Hieroglyphic Dictionary to the ]Book of the Dead
The ''Book of the Dead'' ( egy, ππ€πππππ€ππππ»π
πππ
±π³π€, ''rw n(y)w prt m hrw(w)'') is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom ...
,'' p. 268.
See also
*
Gardiner's Sign List#D. Parts of the Human Body
*
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 ...
File:Hatshepsut temple10.JPG, Face hieroglyph (detailed closeup view)
File:GD-EG-Alex-MusΓ©eNat046.JPG, relief
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 ...
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, 1991. ''A Hieroglyphic Dictionary to the
Book of the Dead
The ''Book of the Dead'' ( egy, ππ€πππππ€ππππ»π
πππ
±π³π€, ''rw n(y)w prt m hrw(w)'') is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom ...
,''
E.A.Wallace Budge, Dover edition, 1991; Original: c 1911 as: ''A Hieroglyphic Vocabulary to the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead with an Index to All the English Equivalents of the Egyptian Words'', (Kegan Paul, etc. Ltd, London, publisher). Dover: (softcover, )
*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 ...
'', Ruth Schumann-Antelme, and StΓ©phane Rossini. c 1998, English trans. 2002, Sterling Publishing Co. (Index, Summary lists (tables), selected uniliterals, biliterals, and triliterals.) (softcover, )
Egyptian hieroglyphs: parts of the human body
Face
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