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The ancient Egyptian Hand-with-droplets hieroglyph,
M17-D46A:X1-.-M17-D46:X1-T12 The second spelling uses the bowstring hieroglyph as a M17-D46A-M17-M17-.-M17-D46A-.-D46:N38-(hand-with-pool) The third uses the pool-lake-basin hieroglyph as determinative.
A third noun usage is for the word "dew", Egyptian language ''id''. The single form has many spellings with the determinative usage-(or with alternate determinants), and a plural form in hieroglyphs as: M17-D46A:D46A-D46A:X1 Single forms for "dew" also use the Sky-with-rain (hieroglyph) as the determinative, with multiple spellings. M17-D46-G43-N4-Z3 The noun "dew" is based on the N4-(rain)-.-M17-G1-D46:X1-D46A:N35:N35:N35-(one-example-of-seven)
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sign listed no. D46A is a portrayal of the ''hand, with droplet offerings''. In the Old Kingdom
In ancient Egyptian history, the Old Kingdom is the period spanning c. 2700–2200 BC. It is also known as the "Age of the Pyramids" or the "Age of the Pyramid Builders", as it encompasses the reigns of the great pyramid-builders of the Fourt ...
usage it is found on ivory labels and slab stela
Slab or SLAB may refer to:
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* Stone slab, a flat stone used in construction
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s, presumably with the use of 'aroma' and unguents, or with incense. As the verb usage with 'libation', water or liquids are involved.
Usage
The hand-with-droplets hierogoglyph is used as adeterminative
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 ma ...
for water libations, or the aroma droplets, (or incense) related to unguents. The Egyptian language
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usage of the noun
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* Organism, Living creatures (including people ...
, as "incense" or an "incense offering", is ''id'', or ''id.t'', represented as: 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 ma ...
, presumably for its 'strength', and the 'power of unguent aromas'-(i.e. perfume
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s).
The Egyptian language verb
A verb () is a word ( part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (''bring'', ''read'', ''walk'', ''run'', ''learn''), an occurrence (''happen'', ''become''), or a state of being (''be'', ''exist'', ''stand''). In the usual descr ...
form, "to cense, to pour out a libation", spelled as ''id'', ''idy'', has three hieroglyph spellings in the Budge two-volume dictionary. Coptic language
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' (five entries), and translated as: dew, mist, vapour, rain-storm, moisture, and exudation, listed under Egyptian language, ''iad'',Budge, 1978, (1920), section "i", ''iad'', pg. 27a, Coptic listing, "eiote", pg. 1288. with some spellings of: Gallery
Slab stela
Slab or SLAB may refer to:
Physical materials
* Concrete slab, a flat concrete plate used in construction
* Stone slab, a flat stone used in construction
* Slab (casting), a length of metal
* Slab (geology), that portion of a tectonic plate that i ...
of Nfr.t-Ab.t; as feminine(.t) she is the "Eastern Beauty"-(Ab-Nfr)
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See also
* Gardiner's Sign List#D. Parts of the Human Body *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 sig ...
*Hand (hieroglyph)
The ancient Egyptian Hand hieroglyph is an alphabetic hieroglyph with the meaning of "d"; it is also used in the word for 'hand', and actions that are performed, i.e. by the 'way of one's hands', or actions. (Used as a determinative.)
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References
*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, ) Hand With Droplets {{AncientEgypt-stub