Davies, Norman de Garis; Davies, Norman de Garis [Hrsg.]: The Mastaba of Ptahhetep and Akhethetep at Saqqareh (Band 1): The chapel of Ptahhetep and the hieroglyphs (London, 1900)

THE HIEEOG-LYPHS.

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190,

(cf. II. II., iii., fig. 28); vino on props:
fig. 166, Pth., xxxiii. 6—props reel, vine green,
with dull maroon longitudinal stripes, bunches
of fruit blue ; fig. 173, ib., xxxiii. 5, coloured
in fig. 405. In offerings word-sign for ( ,

"wine." Det. of yrr't, "vine," k^n, "garden,"
and of names of many garden fruit-trees,
especially in hieratic.

\TX (Hier., p. 26); herb: fig. 163, Pth.,
xxxv. 6. Det. of a plant-name, stf, used as a
proper name. In Akht. det. of ?/7?,/>-plant in
proper name. In Pth., xxxii. 3, the injured
////-plant sign (sec " Corrections," p. 42) is of the
same type as in Medum, pi. xv.

jf lotus-leaf: fig. 165, Pth., xxxviii., below
table ; green with brown stem. Word-sign for
h\ "leaf," of lotus and melon (Pap. Eb. and
Sign Pap.). Phon. for h\

'W (flier., p. 2<S); clump of three papyrus
stems : fig. 165, Pth., xxxi. 2. Det. and later
word-sign for lu-rn,h, the "North-Land," where
papyrus was chiefly grown, and for mh,
" North." Word-sign for h% " behind," in Pth.,
xli, 20.

«\

clump of papyrus with buds bent down :
figT 162, AIM.; fig. 169, Pth., xxxiv. 1.
Word-sign for y'h, "be verdant" (Pth., I.e.);
later written w'h, and then w*rh. Det. "papy-
rus-marsh (?)," zt. In Akht. frequent in group

oo<

¥ = " North," or " papyrus-marsh."

(Hier., p. 28); stem of papyrus : fig. 172,
Pth., xli. 12.

\ (Hier., p. 28); conventionalized rush(?)
(on N. wall Ptahhetcp, coloured green with blue
tips); fig. 170, Pth., xxxii. 3.

(Hier., p. 29); royal plant of South-Land :
fig. 185, Pth., xxxiii., col. 8.

if

(Hier., p. 29); sedge in flower (?); fig. 176,
/'///., xxxv., col. 1; fig. 182, ib., xxxi. 2—green,
flowers and roots red (?), base blue.

4* same plant as last, but with n = 10 sub-
stituted for base : fig. 180, Pth., xxxix., right 2.
Compound word-sign for mz't(?) qmc, "tens of
the South," in a title the plural of which is
written "^^ -4^ n V^ (Wazir inscr. in Tomb
Amenemapt, ed. Newberry, 1. 2).

three reed-flower heads, with lines of

i_____________________i

somewhat uncertain meaning connecting and

© O

between them : fig. 189, Akht. Word-sign for
sh't, "meadow-land," and sm, "herbage."

(Hier., p. 27); reed-head in flower, the
feathery head treated like the true feather j;
fig. 164, Akht.

Class VIII. Earth, Water, and Sky.
Pl. XL

O (Hier., p. 30); disk of the Sun: fig. 214,
Pth., xxxiii., col. 7.

£ disk on g\ (//./•. Hier., p. 63): fig. 221,
Akht., coloured, fig. 403. Compound word-sign
for hr't 11
day."

nv, " that which belongeth to the

^^ crescent moon : fig. 200, Pth., xxxiii.,
col. 3; fig. 201, ib., xli. 18; in the first
instance, value yh, in the second wch. Occa-
sionally det. and word-sign for ych, "moon"
(Pyr. P., 279), but in that case usually taking
a less conventionalized form or position, e.g.
), Qz$. Probably -^^^^ the word-sign for wch,
h/rc, the name of a kind of grain, is the same
sign. In Merab, L., P., ii. 19, as the month-
sign it is coloured white; the wch is half
black, half yellow, in L., P., ii. 70, and, as
Mr, Newberry informs me, yellow in the tomb