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The ancient Egyptian Adze on a Wood Block, or ''Axe in a Block of Wood'' hieroglyph,
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sign listed no. U20, is a portrayal of the adze
An adze (; alternative spelling: adz) is an ancient and versatile cutting tool similar to an axe but with the cutting edge perpendicular to the handle rather than parallel. Adzes have been used since the Stone Age. They are used for smoothing ...
. It is used mostly in the cartouche
In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a line at one end tangent to it, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name. The first examples of the cartouche are associated with pharaohs at the end of the Third Dynasty, but the fe ...
s of pharaonic names especially, or other important names.
The ''adze on block'' has the Egyptian language
The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts which were made accessible to the modern world following the deciphe ...
value of ''stp'' and is the verb ''"choose"''. It is used as a determinative
A determinative, also known as a taxogram or semagram, is an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts which helps to disambiguate interpretation. They have no direct counterpart in spoken language, though they ma ...
in 'stp', "cut into pieces", and as an ideogram
An ideogram or ideograph (from Greek "idea" and "to write") is a graphic symbol that represents an idea or concept, independent of any particular language, and specific words or phrases. Some ideograms are comprehensible only by familiarit ...
Betrò, 1995, p. 229. for 'stp', "choose", "choice".
The adze tool sign, Gardiner nos. U18 and U19, U19 , U20 , portray just the adze, (or ''hand-axe'').
Cartouche usage: ''"chosen of"''
The most common usage of this hieroglyph is for a descriptor with the names in the pharaonic <-ra-wsr-mAat-stp*ra:n-> ''UserMaatRe SetepeNRe'', and is approximately: ''
cartouche
In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a line at one end tangent to it, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name. The first examples of the cartouche are associated with pharaohs at the end of the Third Dynasty, but the fe ...
. An example for Ramesses II
Ramesses II ( egy, rꜥ-ms-sw ''Rīʿa-məsī-sū'', , meaning "Ra is the one who bore him"; ), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Along with Thutmose III he is often regarded a ...
, shows his prenomen as: Maat
Maat or Maʽat ( Egyptian:
mꜣꜥt /ˈmuʀʕat/, Coptic: ⲙⲉⲓ) refers to the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Ma'at was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and re ...
's Power of Ra, (the) Chosen of Ra.'' (i.e. ''Maat's Powerful and Chosen (one) of Ra'')See also
* Gardiner's Sign List#U. Agriculture, Crafts, and Professions *List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sig ...
* Adze#Africa
Osorkon I
Sekhemkheperre Osorkon I was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 22nd Dynasty. Osorkon's territory included much of the Levant.
The Osorkon Bust found at Byblos is one of the five Byblian royal inscriptions.
Biography
The son of Shoshenq I a ...
File:Pectoral Rameses II Louvre E79.jpg, Pectoral (Ancient Egypt)
The pectorals of ancient Egypt were a form of jewelry, often represented as a brooch. These were mostly worn by richer people and the pharaoh.
One type is attached with a nah necklace, meant to be suspended from the neck but to lie upon the bre ...
File:RamessesIX-OstraconPresentingMaat MetropolitanMuseum.png, Goddess Maat
Maat or Maʽat ( Egyptian:
mꜣꜥt /ˈmuʀʕat/, Coptic: ⲙⲉⲓ) refers to the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Ma'at was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and re ...
(hieroglyph) on '' Basket hieroglyph'' being presented by Ramesses IX
Neferkare Setepenre Ramesses IX (also written Ramses) (originally named Amon-her-khepshef Khaemwaset) (ruled 1129–1111 BC) was the eighth pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt. He was the third longest serving king of this Dynasty after Ra ...
File:Karnak titul ramses.JPG, Ramses II
Ramesses II ( egy, wikt:rꜥ-ms-sw, rꜥ-ms-sw ''Rīʿa-məsī-sū'', , meaning "Ra is the one who bore him"; ), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Along with Thutmose III he is oft ...
cartouches at Karnak
The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak (, which was originally derived from ar, خورنق ''Khurnaq'' "fortified village"), comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt. Constru ...
References
*Betrò, 1995. '' Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt'', Maria Carmela Betrò, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, ) *Collier and Manley, 1998. '' How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Yourself'', Mark Collier (Egyptologist), and Bill Manley, c 1998, University of California Press, 179 pp, (with a ''word Glossary'', p 151-61: Title Egyptian-English vocabulary; also an "Answer Key", 'Key to the exercises', p 162–73) (hardcover, ) Egyptian hieroglyphs: agriculture-crafts-and-professions Egyptian hieroglyphs: arts and trades {{hieroglyph-stub