The Three-Fox-Skins (hieroglyph) is
Gardiner's sign list
Gardiner's Sign List is a list of common Egyptian hieroglyphs compiled by Sir Alan Gardiner. It is considered a standard reference in the study of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Gardiner lists only the common forms of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but h ...
ed no. F31, in the series of ''parts of animals''. It consists of 3-fox skins tied at one end, and hanging, creating flowing skins.
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Egyptian hieroglyphs
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 ...
it has the value ''ms''.
[Betrò, 1995. '' Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt,'' p. 128.] The word in Egyptian means ''birth'', and related items: ''to bring forth'', ''produce'', ''fashion'', ''create'', etc.
The 3-fox-skin hieroglyph has its origins in the early dynasties of Ancient Egypt, and can be found in multiple usage on the
Palermo Stone, (creation or inauguration of events).
See also
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Gardiner's Sign List#F. Parts of Mammals
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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
*Betrò, 1995. ''
Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt,'' Betrò, Maria Carmela, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, )
*Budge. ''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: parts of mammals