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for the color black and also used to indicate conclusion or completion, in Gardiner's sign list km is numbered I6. Its phonetic value is '. The ''

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'' ('Dictionary of the Egyptian Language') lists no less than 24 different compound variants of km including black objects such as black stone, metal, wood, hair, eyes, and animals, and in some instances applied to a person's name. I6 Why the km hieroglyph looks the way it does is unknown. In Gardiner's Sign List it's described as "piece of crocodile-skin with spines" and is in section I under "amphibious animals, reptiles, etc" although other hieroglyphs categorized by Gardiner in this way, like I5, the hieroglyph for crocodile I5 all depict the whole animal and there is no known Egyptian text that organize the hieroglyphs into categories. Rossini and Schumann-Antelme propose that the km hieroglyph (Gardiner: I6) actually depicts crocodile claws coming out of the hide. and that km originally derived from the word 'ikm' meaning 'shield' although typically they were made of cow hide (but later copper or bronze) If it depicts part of a crocodile, hide or foot, its relation to the color black is unknown (although Nile crocodiles may appear dark gray, or loosely "black" in color). In some texts the km hieroglyph means 'coming to an end', terminating, or "an item of completion". The blackness of night, a completion of the day, potentially connects the meanings. Consistent with this meaning some scholars believe the hieroglyph depicts I6 "a piece charcoal burning to its ending", this at the same time, a black colored object.

''Km.t'' (Kemet) I6-G17-X1-O49

Starting around the 11th-12th dynasty

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was referred to as Kemet ( 'km.t' ). Many scholars theorize the word may refer to the fertile black colored soil along the banks of the Nile. In other instances, beginning around this same period, the word Ta-meri (“The Beloved Land”) (tꜣ-mrj)tA:U7:r-i-tr-niwt was also used to refer to Egypt. The determinative O49 O49 used in both words is the hieroglyph for 'country, inhabited/cultivated land' and called the niw.t (a political designate) It is believed to represent a 'town intersection' of roads.

Kemet (km.t) and the Kmi Demotic place names in the Rosetta Stone

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of 198 BC includes the 'km.t' three times and of 22 Kmi place names for ancient Egypt, 7 use the hieroglyph iAt-M17-G1-X1:., signifying the soil of Egypt, N30: X1*Z2-N30:N23-X1:Z1, which is the Greek form of "Egypt", signifying it as "the (divine) place of the mound (of creation)" and the fertile black soil of the land after the Inundation. The doubled hieroglyph, N23, Gardiner N23, is used as the ''Two Lands'', (Upper Egypt, and Lower Egypt), and the common use of "Ta-Mer-t", and additionally uses of '' 'Horus of the Two Lands' ''.) In the

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text of the Rosetta Stone, the demotic for Egypt is '' 'Kmi' ''. There are three uses of the actual Kmi, but seven others referenced as Kmi refer to iAt in the hieroglyphs. Other euphemistic references to Egypt in the Rosetta Stone include "Ta-Mer-t", which has the meaning of the 'full/fruitful/cultivated land', hr-tAwy, the 'lands of Horus', and tAwy, the "Two Lands." :'' ''Kmi''—spelling-"Egypt" ''—(22 places, synchronized, Demotic–Hieroglyphs) :*''demotic''—''hieroglyphs'' *#–Kmi—Ta-Mer-t *#–Kmi—Ta-Mer-t *#–Kmi—rsy.t + mHt
(i.e. South and North)(''lands'') *#–Kmi—" Hr tAwy" *#–Kmi—''kmt''-(restored) *#–Kmi—Ta-Mer-t *#–Kmi—Ta-Mer-t *#–Kmi—iAt *#–Kmi—''kmt'' *#–Kmi—" Hr tAwy" *#–Kmi—Ta-Mer-t *#–Kmi—iAt *#–Kmi—iAt *''demotic''—''hieroglyphs'' *14.–Kmi—XXXXXX-(omitted from text) *15.–Kmi—rsy.t + mHt
(i.e. South and North)(''lands'') *16.–''Bki''—iAt *17.–''Kmi''—''kmt'' *18.–Kmi—iAt *19.–Kmi—tAwy *20.–Kmi—iAt *21.–Kmi—iAt *22.–Kmi—Ta-Mer-t *-- *-- *--

Egyptian word examples, ''conclusion, completion'', kmt, km iri

Coming to a conclusion, or completion is one use of the km hieroglyph in the words kmt and km iri ('to make an end'). The discussion of the biliteral states: ''The conclusion of a document, written in black ink, ending the work, has the same semantic connotation.''Schumann-Antelme, Rossini, p. 140. (as km for 'concluding') The Rossini, Schumann-Antelme write-up states that initially the word comes from "shield", ikm, and thus the original association with the crocodile.

In: ''An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary'' by E.A. Wallace Budge, Volume 2, 1920

on page 787B and 788A in the "K"-section km is rendered as "kam" and related variations follow The first 5 entries, kam, kam-t, or kamkam relate to the meaning "to end, to bring to an end, to finish, to complete" (Entry four is untranslated and is from Papyrus 3024, Lepsius, ''Denkmaler''-(papyrus).) The references for the others in the first five are: Peasant, ''Die Klagen des Bauern'', 1908., Thes.-(''Thesaurus Inscriptionum Aegyptiacarum'', Brugsch);. A. Z.-(twice); '' Shipwreck.'', 118-(''Tale of the shipwrecked sailor''); Amen.-(author: Amen-em-apt); and Thes. (again). Entries 6,7 and 8 describe being black and black-colored things. also referring to Coptic refer to coptic "KAME", for 6 and 8; entry 7 to coptic "KMOM", "KMEM". For entry 7, ''to be black'', Budge also references Revue-(Rev.); for entry 8, black items, Budge also references T.-(King Teta); and N.-(

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-(King Nefer-ka-Ra). 9, "Kammau" as ''Egyptian'', 10 "kami-t" as ^ :, books of the black land, 11 the same word "kami-t" also as "black cow" or "black cattle". 12 "Kam-ur" is defined as "The Red Sea" Variations that follow include various animals, gods, goddesses and a couple of lakes 21 and 22, describe a "buckler", or "shield", and "black wood". The last of the 27 entries describe black stones, or powders and black plants, or seeds; (all small multiple, plural, grains-of, items). Entry 26 is an ''image'', or ''statue'', using the vertical mummy hieroglyph gardiner A53, ("in the form of", "the custom of"). These last six entries are unreferenced. The 1920 Budge dictionary is a compilation of 200 referenced works by 120 authors. During Budge's own lifetime and today some scholars have disputed its interpretation of hieroglyphs and texts. Budge's transliteration system was unique to Budge. Most Egyptologists then (and today) use the transcription and transliteration system developed by the Berlin School which issued the master compendium of Egyptian hieroglyphic language in 1926, ''Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache'' (7 Vols.), and which is detailed in the publication by A. H. Gardiner, ''Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs'' (1957)).

Shield

"Shield", ikm and another word with an approximate ''km'' cognate, '' 'khm'' starting with the vowel ( ' ), 'khm, meaning ''to put to an end'' are the possible words related to the origins of the crocodile skin, and the 'verb of action', of items coming to an end. The second word '' 'khm'' has nine entries in the Budge dictionary, shield, ''ikam'', has two entries.Budge, Ibid., p. 94A. File:The name of Egypt name in ancient egyptian and arabic.png, The name of Egypt name in ancient egyptian and arabic File:Paris Concorde obélisque kmt.jpg, from the Luxor Obelisk on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, originally erected by Ramses II in Egypt File:The black siltstone obelisk of Pharaoh Nectanebo II, c.350 BCE. From Cairo, Egypt. British Museum.jpg, Obelisk of

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kmt hieroglyph on lower left File:Statue of Darius the Great, subject L08, kmt (OE. Kemet = Egypt).jpg, Susa, Statue of Darius I, king of Peria, carved in Egypt from greywacke from the quarries of the Wadi Hammamat, but was later erected near the Great Gate of the royal palace in Susa.

''Km''I6

''Km.t'' (Kemet) I6-G17-X1-O49

Kemet (km.t) and the Kmi Demotic place names in the Rosetta Stone

Egyptian word examples, ''conclusion, completion'', kmt, km iri

In: ''An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary'' by E.A. Wallace Budge, Volume 2, 1920

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