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The F39 -(referring to 'dignity', or 'to be revered').
The ''Spine with fluid'' hieroglyph is used in Egyptian G1 and w, the quail chick, Gardiner G43, G43
The use of the ''Spine with fluid'' hieroglyph is for words showing "length", as opposed to 'breadth', (Egyptian ''usekh''-(breadth, width)-for example, the
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sign listed no. F40 for the ''animal spine, fluid falling from each end''. Another hieroglyph, Gardiner F39 shows only half of the spine, hieroglyph
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs ( ) were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined ideographic, logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 1,000 distinct characters. ...
s as a biliteral with the language value of Aw-(''Au'') and consists of the Egyptian vowel uniliterals of a, the vulture
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, Gardiner G1-(birds), Usekh collar
As early as the Old Kingdom (c. 2670–2195 B.C.), Egyptian artisans fashioned images of deities, kings, and mortals wearing broad collars made of molded tubular and teardrop beads. The Usekh or Wesekh is a personal ornament, a type of broad Co ...
). Some example words for 'length' are: ''to be long, length, to extend, extended''; and for ''to expand, to dilate'', words like: ''joy, gladness, pleasure, delight''.Budge. ''An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary'', ''au'', p. 2 (of 464 pp.)
See also
* Gardiner's Sign List#F. Parts of Mammals *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 sign ...
References
*Betrò, 1995. '' Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt,'' Betrò, Maria Carmela, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, ) *Budge. ''An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary,'' E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, 1978. (In two volumes) (softcover, ) Egyptian hieroglyphs: parts of mammals {{AncientEgypt-stub