Scribe equipment (hieroglyph)

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Seal ring. (Note also, hieroglyphs: bread bun (T), and jar stand (G). Starting with 'sedge'-("king"), Column 2-(on right): "(The) King's Scribe", Column 1-(left): "Overseer of the Harem, AhMose ". the central figure: "seated man with flail", is a determinative for "(seated)-Man-noble".) (i.e. "Ah-Mes , (The)-Noble Man") Seal ring N2082 mp3h8736.jpg
Seal ring. (Note also, hieroglyphs: bread bun (T), and jar stand (G). Starting with 'sedge'-("king"), Column 2-(on right):
"(The) King's Scribe",
Column 1-(left): "Overseer of the Harem, AhMose ".
the central figure: "seated man with flail", is a determinative for "(seated)-Man-noble".)
(i.e. "Ah-Mes , (The)-Noble Man")

The ancient Egyptian Scribe equipment hieroglyph 𓏞 (Gardiner no. Y3), or its reversed form 𓏟 (Gardiner no. 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 reliefs.

Ancient Egypt ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa

Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient North Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under Menes. The history of ancient Egypt occurred as a series of stable kingdoms, separated by periods of relative instability known as Intermediate Periods: the Old Kingdom of the Early Bronze Age, the Middle Kingdom of the Middle Bronze Age and the New Kingdom of the Late Bronze Age.

Scribe person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession

A scribe is a person who serves as a professional copyist, especially one who made copies of manuscripts before the invention of automatic printing.

Papyrus writing and painting implement

Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. Papyrus can also refer to a document written on sheets of such material, joined together side by side and rolled up into a scroll, an early form of a book.

Contents

The hieroglyph depicts the 3 major components of a scribe's equipment:

  1. tube case – for holding writing-reeds
  2. leather bag – for holding colored inks (the canonical colors, black and red, mixed with water and gum) [1]
  3. wood scribal palette– with mixing pools; (not always made from wood)

Language usage

The scribe equipment hieroglyph is often used as a determinative for items relating to writing or the scribe. Combined with the determinative for person 𓀀 (Gardiner no. A1), the hieroglyph is read as zẖ U-A723 LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF.gif w (zẖꜣw), probably pronounced [θaçʀaw] [2] or [θiçɫu] [3] in Old Egyptian, and [saçʔaw] or [saçʔu] following the changes in pronunciation of z in Middle Egyptian and of U-A723 LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF.gif (ꜣ) in Late Egyptian. By the Coptic stage of the language, this had lost its glottal stop and ending, reducing to CopteCCmin.png CopteAmin.png CopteKHmin.png [sax] (pl. CopteCCmin.png CopteKHmin.png CopteOmin.png CopteUmin.png CopteImin.png [sxwi]). [4]

Often the transliteration "sesh" appears, derived from the mistaken reading sš propagated in the dictionary and books of E. A. W. Budge. This reading is found as a phonetic complement using the signs for z and š, leading to the misunderstanding. However, Old Kingdom Egyptian lacked a distinct sign for the ẖ sound and the Coptic descendant shows that the original second consonant was indeed the palatalized fricative ẖ not the (alveolo-)palatal sibilant š, [5] (š being the pool-lake-basin (hieroglyph) in the Egyptian language).

Egyptian language language spoken in ancient Egypt, branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages

The Egyptian language was spoken in ancient Egypt and was a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Its attestation stretches over an extraordinarily long time, from the Old Egyptian stage. Its earliest known complete written sentence has been dated to about 2690 BC, which makes it one of the oldest recorded languages known, along with Sumerian.

When used as the verb zẖ U-A723 LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF.gif (zẖꜣ), the hieroglyph has a variety of related meanings: to write, to draw, to make a design, to do into writing. As the noun zẖ U-A723 LATIN SMALL LETTER EGYPTOLOGICAL ALEF.gif (zẖꜣ), it means: [6] 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, and literature. [7]
Block statue type of memorial sculpted statue

The block statue is a type of memorial statue that first emerged in the Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt. The block statue grew in popularity in the New Kingdom and the Third Intermediate Period, and by the Late Period, this type of statue was the most common. These statues were used in temples typically as funerary monuments of non-royal yet important individuals. According to primary sources from the New Kingdom, the posture of the statue was possibly intended to resemble a guardian seated in the gateway of a temple. In addition, their simple shape provided ample flat surfaces for inscriptions of offerings and invocations.

Equipment, as an artifact


See also

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References

  1. ↑ Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Scribe's Palette, p. 238.
  2. ↑ Loprieno (1995) p. 58
  3. ↑ Allen (2013) p. 53
  4. ↑ Bohairic-English Dictionary http://www.suscopts.org/deacons/coptic/coptdict.pdf
  5. ↑ Egyptologist James Allen on AEgyptian-L http://www.rostau.org.uk/aegyptian-l/archives/week608.txt
  6. ↑ Budge, p. 619.
  7. ↑ Budge, pp. 1067-1255.
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