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Egyptian
Glyph origin
Representing a star in the form of a five-pointed starfish. Older depictions are thicker and have rounded ends, and they sometimes show the center as two concentric circles and give the arms crossbars. In color the glyph reflects the colors of the stars and so can be yellow, gold, red, and, less commonly, blue. The phonogrammatic value of sbꜣ is derived by the rebus principle from its use as a logogram for sbꜣ (“star”).
Symbol
(sbꜣ, dwꜣ)
- Triliteral phonogram for sbꜣ.
- Triliteral phonogram for dwꜣ.
- Logogram for sbꜣ (“star”).
- Logogram for wnwt (“hour”).
- Used in , a logogram for ꜣbd (“month”).
- Determinative for stars and constellations, as in sbꜣ (“star”), msḫtjw (“the Big Dipper, the Plough”).
- Determinative in wnwt (“hour”).
References
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 487
- Betrò, Maria Carmela (1995) Geroglifici: 580 Segni per Capire l'Antico Egitto, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., →ISBN
