Hill-country (hieroglyph)

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Hill-country hieroglyph
N25
3-Hills
" hilly-country "
in hieroglyphs

The

black farming land adjacent to the river proper. It is coded N25 in Gardiner's sign list, and U+13209 in Unicode. It is a determinative hieroglyph, simply conveying a meaning, and has no phonetic value.[1]

Various colors, and patterning,[2] may adorn the rest of the hieroglyph when the bottom is green.

Three major uses

n, and two
-determ.

The ancient language hilly land hieroglyph has three major uses:

1 – hill country, or hills
2 – a reference to arid, desert land
3 – Determinative, for foreign lands

The language meaning of the hieroglyph is as an ideogram or a determinative in the word khast (khaset), and is often translated as hilly land, desert, foreign land, or district.[3][4]

Use as determinative

Hatti in hieroglyphs. (from Merneptah Stele
)

One major use of the hill-country hieroglyph is as the determinative for land, but especially the names of foreign lands. For example in the

Hatti
.

Partial list with land determinative

List of uses of the foreign land determinative:

The Nine bows (foreigners or rebels)

N25
t		 Z1 Z1 Z1 Z1 Z1
Z1 Z1 Z1 Z1
the Nine foreign lands
in hieroglyphs

One spelling of the foreign peoples, the Nine bows, is represented by the Hill country hieroglyph, "t", and nine single strokes.[8][9] The nine foreign lands used for the Nine Bows are also iconographically shown inside of cartouches, with their names. The cartouches are the 'bodies' of the "prisoner", or "captive", arms tied behind the back, the name of the land/city inside the cartouche.

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hilly country (hieroglyph).

References

  1. ^ "Like many Egyptian words in hieroglyphics, the word β€œIsrael” includes an additional sign that lacks any phonetic value. Scholars call such signs determinatives because they indicate the kind of word to which they are attached."Bible Review. Biblical Archaeology Society. 1997. p. 38.
  2. ^ BetrΓ², pg 158
  3. ^ Budge, An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, "kh", 'khast', pg 533b
  4. ^ BetrΓ², "Hilly Terrain", pg 158
  5. ^ "Susa, Statue of Darius - Livius". www.livius.org.
  6. ISBN 9780933273955
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  8. ^ Budge, pg 533b
  9. Kurt Heinrich Sethe
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