The
ancient Egyptian b-hieroglyph (
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D58) represents a foot or lower leg.
[Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998. ''Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook'', uniliteral: U3, p. 22-23.]
Gallery
File:Egypt Medicine2.jpg, Relief
(also shows 3rd "m"
vertical Baker's tool (hieroglyph)
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 si ...
(mostly used as preposition
Prepositions and postpositions, together called adpositions (or broadly, in traditional grammar, simply prepositions), are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (''in'', ''under'', ''towards'', ''before'') or mark various ...
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File:Geroglifici Hatshepsut.JPG, External wall relief; (foot and leg hieroglyphs)
FIle:Abousir Sahoure 07.jpg, Column relief
See also
*
Gardiner's Sign List#D. Parts of the Human Body
*
List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
References
*Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998. ''
Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook'', Ruth Schumann-Antelme, and Stéphane Rossini. c 1998, English trans. 2002, Sterling Publishing Co. (Index, Summary lists (tables), selected uniliterals, biliterals, and triliterals.) (softcover, {{ISBN, 1-4027-0025-3)
Egyptian hieroglyphs: parts of the human body