Joint of meat (hieroglyph)
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The ancient Egyptian
Bone-with-meat hieroglyph is one of the Gardiner's sign list
glyphs listed under Parts of Mammals. It is one of many – (52) in the category, as concepts were also presented by the body parts; for example hindquarters, and forequarters, represented things behind something, and alternatively, things at the forefront. The 'bone-with-meat' hieroglyph represented: ancestry, also inherit, (presumably bodies-souls, after death).
The Ancient Egyptian language
usage of the hieroglyph means, isw, iw' (inherit, etc.); a determinative
for the femur
, (iw'); and swt, for the tibia
.
The Old Kingdom
usage on slab stele
s, from the middle of the 3rd millennium BC, shows the proto-type form of the hieroglyph as a 'cut of meat', much like the spare rib
s or beef ribs of the present era. The slab stela shows the bone as a multiple of two curved bones, much like the spare rib.
at the Temple of Edfu
shows a cartouche
with the joint of meat hieroglyph. Another less common hieroglyph pictured within the cartouche is the vertical standing mummy hieroglyph.
addresses the power of ancestry. In the Rosetta Stone, line R5, the joint of meat hieroglyph precedes a 'list of reward "qualifications" for the Pharaoh Ptol. V'.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...
Bone-with-meat hieroglyph is one of the Gardiner's sign list
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....
glyphs listed under Parts of Mammals. It is one of many – (52) in the category, as concepts were also presented by the body parts; for example hindquarters, and forequarters, represented things behind something, and alternatively, things at the forefront. The 'bone-with-meat' hieroglyph represented: ancestry, also inherit, (presumably bodies-souls, after death).
The Ancient Egyptian language
Egyptian language
Egyptian is the oldest known indigenous language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family. Written records of the Egyptian language have been dated from about 3400 BC, making it one of the oldest recorded languages known. Egyptian was spoken until the late 17th century AD in the...
usage of the hieroglyph means, isw, iw' (inherit, etc.); a determinative
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 may derive historically from glyphs for real words, and...
for the femur
Femur
The femur , or thigh bone, is the most proximal bone of the leg in tetrapod vertebrates capable of walking or jumping, such as most land mammals, birds, many reptiles such as lizards, and amphibians such as frogs. In vertebrates with four legs such as dogs and horses, the femur is found only in...
, (iw'); and swt, for the tibia
Tibia
The tibia , shinbone, or shankbone is the larger and stronger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates , and connects the knee with the ankle bones....
.
Old Kingdom
Old Kingdom is the name given to the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egypt attained its first continuous peak of civilization in complexity and achievement – the first of three so-called "Kingdom" periods, which mark the high points of civilization in the lower Nile Valley .The term itself was...
usage on slab stele
Slab stela
The slab stela was an original form of the steles of ancient Egypt, but in a horizontal dimension. Some of the earliest ones from mid- to late-3rd millennium BC were painted Slab Steles...
s, from the middle of the 3rd millennium BC, shows the proto-type form of the hieroglyph as a 'cut of meat', much like the spare rib
Spare Rib
Spare Rib was a second-wave feminist magazine in the United Kingdom that emerged out of the counter culture of the late 1960s as a consequence of meetings involving, amongst others, Rosie Boycott and Marsha Rowe.-Description:...
s or beef ribs of the present era. The slab stela shows the bone as a multiple of two curved bones, much like the spare rib.
Cartouche usage
An example of a wall relief scene from EdfuEdfu
Edfu is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River between Esna and Aswan, with a population of approximately sixty thousand people. For the ancient history of the city, see below...
at the Temple of Edfu
Temple of Edfu
The Temple of Edfu is an ancient Egyptian temple located on the west bank of the Nile in the city of Edfu which was known in Greco-Roman times as Apollonopolis Magna, after the chief god Horus-Apollo. It is one of the best preserved temples in Egypt. The temple, dedicated to the falcon god Horus,...
shows a cartouche
Cartouche
In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an ellipse with a horizontal line at one end, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name, coming into use during the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty under Pharaoh Sneferu, replacing the earlier serekh...
with the joint of meat hieroglyph. Another less common hieroglyph pictured within the cartouche is the vertical standing mummy hieroglyph.
Rosetta Stone usage
The 196 BC usage in the Ptolemy V Rosetta StoneRosetta Stone
The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek...
addresses the power of ancestry. In the Rosetta Stone, line R5, the joint of meat hieroglyph precedes a 'list of reward "qualifications" for the Pharaoh Ptol. V'.
- ".... As a reward-(i.e. ancestral inheritnce), for these things have given him (Ptolemy V) the gods and goddesses: victory, mightBranch (hieroglyph)The ancient Egyptian Branch hieroglyph, also called a Stick, is a member of the trees and plants hieroglyphs.The branch is an Egyptian language biliteral with the value t, -; it is an ideogram-, for wood, tree, and the linear measure...
, lifeAnkhThe ankh , also known as key of life, the key of the Nile or crux ansata, was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character that read "eternal life", a triliteral sign for the consonants ʻ-n-ḫ...
, strength, health, (AUSAnkh wedja senebThe Ancient Egyptian phrase ankh, wedja, seneb meaning "life, prosperity, health" is an epithetic formula which often appears after the names of Egyptian kings or references to their household...
) and everything good to the fullest possible extentSpine with fluid (hieroglyph)The use of the spine with fluid hieroglyph is for words showing "length", as opposed to 'breadth', . Some example words for 'length' are: to be long, length, to extend, extended; and for to expand, to dilate, words like: joy, gladness, pleasure, delight.-See also:*Gardiner's Sign List#F...
of them;..."
External links
- High Res Photo-(click on picture)–(Photo also contains a "Libationer-Priest hieroglyph".)
