Road (hieroglyph)

The Ancient Egyptian Road-with-shrubs hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. N31 for a road, "street", or pathway. It originally was a curving hieroglyph, but became a standardized straight form as well.

Road-
-with-shrubs
in hieroglyphs

The Road hieroglyph is used in Egyptian hieroglyphs as an ideogram or determinative in the word w3t-(uat), for 'road'.[1] It is also a phonogram for hr, from the word hrt, also for 'road'.

Preceded by

Was scepter-(tril.) - w3s

road-with-shrubs
w3t-(uAt)
Succeeded by

Papyrus stem-(tril.)
w3dj-(uatch-uadj)
Succeeded by
,

papyrus stem-(tril.)--harpoon-(bil.)
--- w3dj ---- ---- u' ---


See also

References

  1. Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, "Road", p. 162.
  • Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Betrò, Maria Carmela, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, ISBN 0-7892-0232-8)


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