The Land, irrigated hieroglyph ("sectioned land",
Gardiner N24)
represents
"district, nome" (phonetic value ''sp3t''). It is a
determinative
A determinative, also known as a taxogram or semagram, is an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts which helps to disambiguate interpretation. They have no direct counterpart in spoken language, though they may ...
in the name of provinces and regions in the noun ''ḥsp'', for "garden", "vegetable garden", and "orchard".
[Betrò, 1995, 157.]
See also
*
Gardiner's Sign List#N. Sky, Earth, Water
*
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 ...
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Arm, cubit symbol (hieroglyph)
The Arm, palm down or cubit hieroglyph ( Gardiner D42) has the phonetic value ''mḥ''. A variant with the upper arm "slanted" is D41.
It represents the Egyptian cubit (about 20 inches).
See also
* Gardiner's Sign List#D. Parts of the Human Bod ...
References
*Betrò, 1995. ''
Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt,'' Betrò, 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: sky-earth-water