Two whips with shen ring (hieroglyph)
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The
Gardiner sign listed no. S23 is a portrayal of the Shen ring with two Egyptian flails-(Crook and flail
); it is a member of the Gardiner subset for "crowns, dress, staves, etc".
In the Egyptian language, the hieroglyph is used as an ideogram or determinative for words meaning to unite. In the language it is used for dm(dj)-(dmḏ).[1]
A second form of the hieroglyph uses only one whip and shen ring, and implies 'opposite', the opposite of "to unite".
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Knotted strips (hieroglyph).
- Gardiner's Sign List#S. Crowns, Dress, Staves, etc.
- List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
- Shen ring
References
- ^ Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Two whips with the šnw-ring, p. 215.
- Betrò, 1995. ISBN 0-7892-0232-8)
- Budge, 1991. A Hieroglyphic Dictionary to the ISBN 978-0-486-26724-1)
- Budge. The Rosetta Stone, E. A. Wallis Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1929, Dover edition(unabridged), 1989. (softcover, ISBN 0-486-26163-8)
- Budge, 1978, (1920). An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, E. A. Wallis Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, c 1978; cliv-(154) and 1314 pp. (In two volumes) (softcover, ISBN 0-486-23615-3)