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The ancient Egyptian hieroglyph of a Spine issuing fluid is F39 -(referring to 'dignity', or 'to be revered').
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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, 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 hieroglyph
A hieroglyph (Greek for "sacred carvings") was a character of the ancient Egyptian writing system. Logographic scripts that are pictographic in form in a way reminiscent of ancient Egyptian are also sometimes called "hieroglyphs". In Neoplatonis ...
s as a biliteral with the language value of Aw-(''Au'') and consists of the Egyptian vowel uniliterals of a, the vulture
A vulture is a bird of prey that scavenges on carrion. There are 23 extant species of vulture (including Condors). Old World vultures include 16 living species native to Europe, Africa, and Asia; New World vultures are restricted to North a ...
, Gardiner G1-(birds), Usekh collar
As early as the Old Kingdom (circa 2670–2195 B.C.), Egyptian artisans fashioned images of gods, 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 coll ...
). 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 sig ...
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