Sun (hieroglyph)

Sun
"sun-disc"
in hieroglyphs

The

Gardiner sign listed no. N5 for the sun-disc;^[1] it is also one of the hieroglyphs that refers to the god Ra

snap-of-the-finger", a 'moment', or 'instant' of time is represented using a Hippopotamus head (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. F3:

, with the sun-disc:

, as the time determinative in a hieroglyphic composition block

.

("instant")("moment"of"time")

In the 24th century BC

Register

's are dates only for example in Row V (of VI rows):

For: "

10

, 3).

Some other common hieroglyphs based on the sun hieroglyph, are the Sun-with-rays (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. N8:

, and Sun-rising (hieroglyph)-(Coronations, "Appearance of..."-Palermo Stone), no. N28.

. In the 24th century BC Palermo Stone: "Appearance of the King of the South and Appearance of the King of the North".

Ra, the Sun-god is Gardiner listed no. C1, of the listed: Anthropomorphic Deities–(more than 20 listed, and other Gardiner unlisted forms used in Ancient Egypt). The God Ra is shown with a sun-disc upon his head – or another common form with the Sun disc, encircled with Uraeus, (the cobra):

Luwian hieroglyph

The

Luwian hieroglyphs

has 7 varieties for the syllable of 's' and 'a'. For 'sa' number 4 (Sa₄).

References

^ Collier and Manley, 1998, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, C1, sun-disc, p. 136.

ISBN 0-520-21597-4
)

[1] Collier and Manley, 1998, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, C1, sun-disc, p. 136.

[1]

Luwian hieroglyph

See also

References