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The ancient Egyptian Water-jugs-in-stand hieroglyph, is

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sign listed no. W17, W18, within the Gardiner signs for ''vessels of stone and earthenware.'' The hieroglyph is used as an

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in ''(kh)nt''-(ḫnt), for 'a stand (for vases)'. It is also used

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for (ḫnt).

Egyptian "khenti"

The ''water-jugs-in-stand hieroglyph'' is often written with the complement of three other hieroglyphs, the water ripple, N35, bread bun, X1, and ''two strokes'', Z4, to make the

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word foremost, ''khenti''. The complete composition block is: W17-N35:X1*Z4

As Egyptian "khenti",Budge, 1978, (1920). ''An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary'', 'khenti' , and other " 'Khenti'-Title-constructs", pp. 309-311. foremost is used extensively to refer to gods, often in charge of a region, or position, as ''foremost of xxxx''. Anubis, or

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are often referred to as "Foremost", or "Chief" of the 'western cemetery', (where the sun sets). File:Queen Ashit relief.jpg, Relief from the limestone sarcophagus of Ashayet, 11th Dynasty File:Inscriptions site de gizeh.JPG,

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References

*Betrò, 1995. '' Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt'', Maria Carmela Betrò, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, ) *Budge. ''An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary,''

E. A. Wallis Budge Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 185723 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips ...

, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, 1978. (In two volumes) (softcover, ) Egyptian hieroglyphs: vessels of stone and earthenware {{AncientEgypt-stub

Egyptian "khenti"

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