The
ancient Egyptian Night hieroglyph,
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sign listed nos. N3 is a portrayal of the ''sky with the
'was' scepter hanging from it''; it is in the Gardiner subset for "sky, earth, and water".
In the
Egyptian language, the ''night hieroglyph'' is used as a
determinative for words relating to 'obscurity'. In the language it is used for ''grh''-(grḥ), and ''w(kh)''-(uḫ) for night, and ''kkw''-(kku) for dark, and a determinative for other related words.
[Betrò, 1995. ''Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt'', Sky, p. 150.]
See also
*
Sky (hieroglyph)
*
Gardiner's Sign List#N. Sky, Earth, and Water
*
List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
References
*Betrò, 1995. ''
Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt,'' Betrò, Maria Carmela, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, )
Egyptian hieroglyphs: sky-earth-water
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