Scribe equipment (hieroglyph)
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The ancient Egyptian
Scribe equipment hieroglyph, Gardiner
sign listed no. Y3, (or reversed, Y4), portrays the equipment of the scribe
. Numerous scribes used the hieroglyph in stating their name, either on papyrus
documents, but especially on statuary or tomb relief
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The hierolyph contains the 3 major components of a scribe's equipment:
for items relating to writing or the scribe. The Egyptian language
meaning of the hieroglyph is s(sh), (sš).
As the verb, it is used for: to write, to draw, to make a design, to do into writing.
For the noun: writing, inscription, written roll of papyrus, book, copy of a document, & handwriting. In plural usage: writings, letters, books, documents, archives, decrees, handwriting, the columns of a book, papers, title-deeds, registers, & literature. (Note, Budge's dictionary, has a "188 page Index" to these word meanings-(200-300 archaeological documents).
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...
Scribe equipment hieroglyph, Gardiner
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....
sign listed no. Y3, (or reversed, Y4), portrays the equipment of the scribe
Scribe
A scribe is a person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession and helps the city keep track of its records. The profession, previously found in all literate cultures in some form, lost most of its importance and status with the advent of printing...
. Numerous scribes used the hieroglyph in stating their name, either on papyrus
Papyrus
Papyrus is a thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt....
documents, but especially on statuary or tomb relief
Relief
Relief is a sculptural technique. The term relief is from the Latin verb levo, to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is thus to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane...
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The hierolyph contains the 3 major components of a scribe's equipment:
- tube case – for holding writing-reeds
- leather bag – for holding colored inks, (black, red, canonic colors, mixed with H2O and gum)
- wood scribal palette – with mixing pools; (not always made from wood)
Language usage
The scribe equipment hieroglyph is often used as a determinativeDeterminative
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 items relating to writing or the scribe. The 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...
meaning of the hieroglyph is s(sh), (sš).
As the verb, it is used for: to write, to draw, to make a design, to do into writing.
For the noun: writing, inscription, written roll of papyrus, book, copy of a document, & handwriting. In plural usage: writings, letters, books, documents, archives, decrees, handwriting, the columns of a book, papers, title-deeds, registers, & literature. (Note, Budge's dictionary, has a "188 page Index" to these word meanings-(200-300 archaeological documents).