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Egyptian
Glyph origin
Representing a boat on water, typically with seat and steering oar. These boats occur with great frequency in archaic graffiti, pottery, and paintings. In Old Kingdom examples the glyph is usually written without the oar,
, and a variant with a high prow and stern,
, is preferred in Old Kingdom titles.
Symbol
- Logogram for jmw (“boat”).
- Logogram for dpt (“ship”) in dpt-nṯr.
- Logogram for ꜥḥꜥ (“boat”) in jmj-r ꜥḥꜥw.
- (rare) Logogram for qꜣqꜣw (“kind of riverboat”).
- Determinative for boats and ships, as in dpt (“ship”) or ḥꜥw (“fleet”).
- Determinative for verbs involving navigation and travel by water, as in nꜥj (“to travel by boat”) or ḫdj (“to go downstream”).
References
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 498
- Henry George Fischer (1988) Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 37
- Betrò, Maria Carmela (1995) Geroglifici: 580 Segni per Capire l'Antico Egitto, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., →ISBN
