The
ancient Egyptian Single-Stair hieroglyph,
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sign listed no. O40 is a single
staircase in the Gardiner subset for "buildings, parts of buildings, etc." A second full double-staircase is no. O41,
[Betrò, 1995. ''Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt'', Double stair, p. 186.] O41
In the
Egyptian language
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, the ''single stair hieroglyph'' 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 ...
.
See also
*
Gardiner's Sign List#O. Buildings, Parts of Buildings, etc.
*
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, 1978, (1920). ''An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary,''
E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, c 1978; cliv-(154) and 1314 pp. (In two volumes) (softcover, {{ISBN, 0-486-23615-3)
Egyptian hieroglyphs: buildings and parts-of-buildings-etc