Bone-with-meat (hieroglyph)

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The ancient Egyptian Bone-with-meat hieroglyph (Gardiner F44) represented: "ancestry, inherit",[1] and phonetic isw, iw' (inherit, etc.);[2] a determinative for the femur, (iw');[3] and swt, for the tibia.[4]

spare rib
-2 curved bones)

The

Old Kingdom usage on slab steles, from the middle of the 3rd millennium BC, shows the proto-type form of the hieroglyph as a 'cut of meat', much like the spare ribs
or beef ribs of the present era. The slab stela shows the bone as a multiple of two curved bones, much like the spare rib.

Cartouche relief, Temple of Edfu.

An example of a wall relief scene from Edfu at the Temple of Edfu shows a cartouche with the joint of meat hieroglyph. Another less common hieroglyph pictured within the cartouche is the vertical standing mummy hieroglyph.

See also

References

  1. ^ Kamrin, 2004. Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide, (Gardiner) F44, p. 238.
  2. ^ Kamrin, 2004. (Gardiner) F44, p. 238.
  3. ^ Kamrin, 2004. F44, p. 238.
  4. ^ Kamrin, 2004. F44, p. 238.
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