The ancient Egyptian Sun hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. N5 for the ''sun-disc'';Collier and Manley, 1998, ''How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs'', C1, sun-disc, p. 136. it is also one of the hieroglyphs that refers to the god Ra.

The sun hieroglyph is used in the

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s as a

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to refer to events of time, for example when referring to '' '"day xx" (of month yy') ''. Even the " snap-of-the-finger", a 'moment', or 'instant' of time is represented using a

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, Gardiner no. F3: F3, with the sun-disc: N5, as the time determinative in a hieroglyphic composition block.F3-N5:Z1.("instant")("moment"of"time")

In the 24th century BC Palermo Stone, the ''sun hieroglyph'' is used on the ''Palermo Piece''-(obverse) of the 7-piece Palermo Stone to identify dates, or specific "day-events", ..."day of ...." A few of the King Year-

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's are dates only for example in Row V (of VI rows): N11:N11:N5 ! V20:V20:Z2ss !!

For: " Month 2, N11:N11, Day N5 23" ( number 10, 10, 3).

Some other common hieroglyphs based on the ''sun hieroglyph'', are the Sun-with-rays (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. N8: N8, and Sun-rising (hieroglyph)-(''Coronations'', "Appearance of..."- Palermo Stone), no. N28. N28. In the 24th century BC Palermo Stone: ''"

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of the King of the South and

of the King of the North"''.

Ra, the Sun-god is Gardiner listed no. C1, of the listed: ''Anthropomorphic Deities''–(more than 20 listed, and other Gardiner unlisted forms used in Ancient Egypt). The God Ra is shown with a ''sun-disc'' upon his head – or another common form with the ''Sun disc, encircled with

Uraeus The Uraeus (), or Ouraeus (Ancient Greek: , ; Egyptian: ', "rearing cobra"), ''(plural: Uraei)'' is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian cobra, used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity and divine authority in ancient Egypt. Sym ...

'', (the cobra): C1

Luwian hieroglyph

The

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hieroglyphs,

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has 7 varieties for the syllable of 's' and 'a'. For 'sa' number 4 (Sa₄).

References

* Collier, Mark, and Manley, Bill, ''

How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs ''How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs'' is a primer on understanding Egyptian hieroglyphs. The text was written by Mark Collier (Egyptologist), and Bill Manley, c. 1998. The standard version of analytic Egyptian hieroglyphs is based upon the 26 c ...

'', c 1998, University of California Press, 179 pp, (with a ''word Glossary'', p 151-61: Title Egyptian-English vocabulary; also an "Answer Key", 'Key to the exercises', p 162-73) (hardcover, {{ISBN, 0-520-21597-4) Egyptian hieroglyphs: sky-earth-water

Luwian hieroglyph

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