Sun-shining-with-rays (hieroglyph)
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In the Egyptian language
, the sun-with-rays hieroglyph is used as an ideogram
, determinative
, and phoneme
.
In the Egyptian language
, the sun-with-rays hieroglyph is used as an ideogram
, determinative
, and phoneme
.
In the Egyptian language
, the sun-with-rays hieroglyph is used as an ideogram
, determinative
, and phoneme
.
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...
, the sun-with-rays hieroglyph is used as an ideogram
Ideogram
An ideogram or ideograph is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept. Some ideograms are comprehensible only by familiarity with prior convention; others convey their meaning through pictorial resemblance to a physical object, and thus may also be referred to as pictograms.Examples of...
, 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...
, and phoneme
Phoneme
In a language or dialect, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances....
.
Rosetta Stone usage
The ancient Egyptian
Sun-shining-with-rays hieroglyph, Gardiner
sign listed no. N8, is a portrayal of the 'sun, with rays shining down from it'; it commonly is portrayed with 3-rays; older versions may have 4-rays, and an equivalent version is closer in form to the hieroglyph for the faience necklace (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. S16, with elongated 3-rays,S16
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...
Sun-shining-with-rays 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. N8, is a portrayal of the 'sun, with rays shining down from it'; it commonly is portrayed with 3-rays; older versions may have 4-rays, and an equivalent version is closer in form to the hieroglyph for the faience necklace (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. S16, with elongated 3-rays,
In 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...
, the sun-with-rays hieroglyph is used as an ideogram
Ideogram
An ideogram or ideograph is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept. Some ideograms are comprehensible only by familiarity with prior convention; others convey their meaning through pictorial resemblance to a physical object, and thus may also be referred to as pictograms.Examples of...
, 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...
, and phoneme
Phoneme
In a language or dialect, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances....
.
Rosetta Stone usage
The ancient Egyptian
Sun-shining-with-rays hieroglyph, Gardiner
sign listed no. N8, is a portrayal of the 'sun, with rays shining down from it'; it commonly is portrayed with 3-rays; older versions may have 4-rays, and an equivalent version is closer in form to the hieroglyph for the faience necklace (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. S16, with elongated 3-rays,S16
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...
Sun-shining-with-rays 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. N8, is a portrayal of the 'sun, with rays shining down from it'; it commonly is portrayed with 3-rays; older versions may have 4-rays, and an equivalent version is closer in form to the hieroglyph for the faience necklace (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. S16, with elongated 3-rays,
In 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...
, the sun-with-rays hieroglyph is used as an ideogram
Ideogram
An ideogram or ideograph is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept. Some ideograms are comprehensible only by familiarity with prior convention; others convey their meaning through pictorial resemblance to a physical object, and thus may also be referred to as pictograms.Examples of...
, 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...
, and phoneme
Phoneme
In a language or dialect, a phoneme is the smallest segmental unit of sound employed to form meaningful contrasts between utterances....
.
Rosetta Stone usage
One example usage from the 198 BC Rosetta Stone
is from line R10 of the engraved stone and is shown in the photo text. A double crown-(pschent crown) is to be made for the statue of the pharaoh, and a description of how it is to be mounted is given. The end of the specifications are:
The reference is to Egyptian language
, 'hedj' for silver, s-h(dj)-(s-ḥḏ) for "illumineth", using the sun-with-rays as a determinative
in a composition block
.S29-T3-I10:N8 (The photo text shows the hieroglyph appears more like the 'faience necklace hieroglyph').
. A complex iconographic designed ivory
wand has lions, walking and reclining, a crocodile head, a large scarab, a ram-head, wearing a crown, Apep
, and Heket upon her basket
. Also shown a uraeus
, gazelle-headed staffs with knife
, a serpopard
, and a total of 10 knives, one held by the standing Hippopotamus God, one hand on the Sa-protection hieroglyph. The entire iconography
is complex.
Rosetta 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...
is from line R10 of the engraved stone and is shown in the photo text. A double crown-(pschent crown) is to be made for the statue of the pharaoh, and a description of how it is to be mounted is given. The end of the specifications are:
- "...an uraeusUraeusThe Uraeus is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian spitting cobra , used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity, and divine authority in ancient Egypt.The Uraeus is a symbol for the goddess Wadjet, who was one of the earliest Egyptian deities and who...
likewise on a basket [and] a papyrus cluster under her on her angle(=corner) left, the meaning whereof is, The Lord of the Two CrownsPschentThe Pschent was the name of the Double Crown of Ancient Egypt. The Ancient Egyptians generally referred to it as sekhemti , the Two Powerful Ones. It combined the Red Deshret Crown of Lower Egypt and the White Hedjet Crown of Upper Egypt....
illumineth the Two Lands-(Egypt)..Inasmuch as..."
The reference is to 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...
, 'hedj' for silver, s-h(dj)-(s-ḥḏ) for "illumineth", using the sun-with-rays as 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...
in a composition block
Quadrat (hieroglyph block)
A quadrat block is a virtual rectangle or square in Egyptian hieroglyphic text.The glyphs can be variable in number within the virtual block, though they are often proportioned according to variable standardized rules of scribal methods.The definition for the block in Illustrated Hieroglyphics...
.
3rd millennium BC, ivory wands
Magical Egyptian ivory wands from the 3rd millennium BC, and specifically by 2100 BC show magical protective animals, gods, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. One common god is BesBes
Bes was an Egyptian deity worshipped in the later periods of dynastic history as a protector of households and in particular mothers and children. In time he would be regarded as the defender of everything good and the enemy of all that is bad...
. A complex iconographic designed ivory
Ivory
Ivory is a term for dentine, which constitutes the bulk of the teeth and tusks of animals, when used as a material for art or manufacturing. Ivory has been important since ancient times for making a range of items, from ivory carvings to false teeth, fans, dominoes, joint tubes, piano keys and...
wand has lions, walking and reclining, a crocodile head, a large scarab, a ram-head, wearing a crown, Apep
Apep
In Egyptian mythology, Apep was an evil god, the deification of darkness and chaos , and thus opponent of light and Ma'at , whose existence was believed from the 8th Dynasty onwards...
, and Heket upon her basket
Basket (hieroglyph)
-List of epithet uses:-Pharaonic uses:The pharaoh is often shown in reliefs or in cartouche-related statements as Lord of the Two Lands. The basket hieroglyph is used as 'lord', or 'king'. Queens, or goddesses use the 'lordess' form, the feminine implied from the "t" hieroglyph but not needed for...
. Also shown a uraeus
Uraeus
The Uraeus is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian spitting cobra , used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity, and divine authority in ancient Egypt.The Uraeus is a symbol for the goddess Wadjet, who was one of the earliest Egyptian deities and who...
, gazelle-headed staffs with knife
Knife
A knife is a cutting tool with an exposed cutting edge or blade, hand-held or otherwise, with or without a handle. Knives were used at least two-and-a-half million years ago, as evidenced by the Oldowan tools...
, a serpopard
Serpopard
The serpopard is a term applied by some modern researchers to what is described as a mythical animal known from Ancient Egyptian depictions. This term is not used in any original texts, and is an interpretation made only recently. The image is featured specifically on decorated cosmetic palettes...
, and a total of 10 knives, one held by the standing Hippopotamus God, one hand on the Sa-protection hieroglyph. The entire iconography
Iconography
Iconography is the branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images. The word iconography literally means "image writing", and comes from the Greek "image" and "to write". A secondary meaning is the painting of icons in the...
is complex.
The sun-shining-with-rays hieroglyph is shown once, in front of the crown, upon the Ram-head. It is faience-like, is like the sun hieroglyph
, no. N5, with its central dot,N5 , and has 4 vertical, and undulating rays of light.
Sun (hieroglyph)
The Ancient Egyptian Sun hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. N5 for the sun-disc; it is also one of the hieroglyphs that refers to the god Ra.-Luwian hieroglyhs, Sa-sub4:...
, no. N5, with its central dot,
See also
- Gardiner's Sign List#N. Sky, Earth, Water
