Stair-single (hieroglyph)

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Stair-(Single)
in hieroglyphs
Relief with offerings to Sobek, showing Stair-Double; (See in Budge, Rdu, the stairs of Sobek). (The offering relief is by Scribe Aa-mer-R-u(coil)-t, (Aa-mer-r-u-t); a meteor (hieroglyph) unlisted replaces the incense-pot.) Aamerout worshiping Sebek-Re E20907.jpg
Relief with offerings to Sobek, showing Stair-Double; (See in Budge, Rdu, the stairs of Sobek). (The offering relief is by Scribe Aa-mer-R-u(coil)-t, (Aa-mer-r-u-t); a meteor (hieroglyph) unlisted replaces the incense-pot.)
The ancient Egyptian Single-Stair hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. O40 is a single staircase in the Gardiner subset for "buildings, parts of buildings, etc." A second full double-staircase is no. O41, [2]
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In the Egyptian language, the single stair hieroglyph is used as a determinative.

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.

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 functionally they resemble classifiers in East Asian and sign languages. For example, Egyptian hieroglyphic determinatives include symbols for divinities, people, parts of the body, animals, plants, and books/abstract ideas, which helped in reading, but none of which were pronounced.

Preceded by
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leg
rd
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single-
stair
(determinative)
rd="stairs"
"staircase"
Succeeded by
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bread-cone
(di)
rdi


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References

  1. Budge, 1978, (1920). An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, p.436B.
  2. Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Double stair, p. 186.
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