The Egyptian hieroglyph for ten is Compare the Greek [--] and Latin Decem.
This is mused forth as a general gnome, and may mean anything or nothing: the writer of the letterpress under the hieroglyph in Old Moore's Almanac could not be more guarded; but I think I know what it does mean.
A convention was converted into a fetish, and now that its worthlessness as a fetish is being generally felt, its great value as a hieroglyphor convention is in danger of being lost sight of.
I have interpreted wrongly the fourth hieroglyph of the fifth perpendicular line in which is the spell of serpents.
Petamounoph's daughter, encouraged by these hospitable words, entered the house, which justified the hieroglyphof welcome inscribed upon the gate.
The spaces are not strictly rectangles, as each is divided vertically from the next by the Egyptian hieroglyph for "year".
The god was never a symbol or hieroglyph representing the sun.
With the exception of the sun himself the hieroglyph of the cross has been more generally adored than any other object in nature.
A compound hieroglyph could be placed among simple ones agreeing with any one of its components, and so on.
In this case the hieroglyph 2020 is well preserved (see the right-hand side of Plate LVI, Fig.
The twisted cords which form the bottom of this ornament are in the hieroglyph No.
The numbers of hieroglyphs which resembled the one in question could be written on the right half of the card, and the numbers corresponding to different recurrences of this hieroglyph occupied the left half.
In passing, it may be said that the upper left-hand hieroglyph of Plate XIII most probably repeats this name.
And we have found a meaning for every part of the hieroglyph 2020 save only one, viz, the left-hand one-third, consisting of concentric half ellipses or circles.
The only new hieroglyph is the pylon, rendered An in the cartouche.
With two small thrones inside, as seen here, the hieroglyph probably represents the interior of a palace; and is the ideograph for the festival called triakonteris, because celebrated every thirty years.
This hieroglyph is thought by some to be a part of a dress.
Thus, in the name Kleopatra, the first hieroglyph is a knee, called in Coptic kne, and this sign stands for the letter k, the first letter in Kleopatra.
Representational, iconographic, or mimic hieroglyphs, in which case each hieroglyph is a picture of the object referred to.
The top of this hieroglyph resembles papyrus flower, and ought therefore to be distinguished from the simple twisted cord.
PYLON or gateway, is a hieroglyph that stands for An or On, the Greek Heliopolis.
The same hieroglyph appears several times in both the central and lateral columns.
Champollion further announced that the phonetic hieroglyph stood for the initial letter of the name of the object represented.
This hieroglyph represents the top or cap of the obelisk, and is a determinative to capped.
In each case this hieroglyph may be rendered by the word powerful.
The sign is a clever adaptation of the sulphur hieroglyph and is identical with the registry mark of the third degree of the Grand Lodge Indissolubilis.
This was no other than the “crux ansata,” or handled cross, so common on Egyptian monuments as the hieroglyph of Life out of death.
The very idea of the transformation is shown, by the hieroglyph of the scarab for the word Kheper, i.
Matter was transformed,--this is explained to us through the symbolism of the scarab, the hieroglyph of the word Kheper, i.
They are, following the commands in the Book of the Dead, frequently set in gold, sometimes in bronze, and sometimes are incised with the shape of the hieroglyph for the heart.
It is one of the twelve signs of the Zodiac, commonly called Sagittarius, otherwise Arcitenens, and marked by the hieroglyph [Symbol].
It frequently figures in heraldry as a convenient hieroglyph to commemorate some service in Egypt.
Thus we find that by the Mexicans and Maya the abode of the god of death was considered to be the north, and that among the latter people the hieroglyph for the north is a human bone placed before the head of the death-god.
The determinative of his hieroglyph is either the figure of an animal or a stone, which latter seems to symbolize the stony or desert country on either side of the Nile.
The paddling is certainly the older practice, for the hieroglyph chen depicts two arms grasping an oar in the attitude of paddling, and the hieroglyphs were invented in the earliest ages.
Egyptian artists mechanically followed the turn of the hieroglyph to which their hands were accustomed.
With it I shall seal this letter, that you may see its designs in the hieroglyph representation.
Over the doors of many houses are handsome shields or tablets, charged with the hieroglyph of the master, inscribed with some sentence.
The numerals refer to the pages of the book where the hieroglyph occurs.
The abrasion caused by the sand of the Libyan desert has effaced almost every hieroglyph on this side of the obelisk.
Men planted a stone upright, it was a letter, and each letter was a hieroglyph, and upon each hieroglyph rested a group of ideas, like the capital on the column.
The hieroglyph deserts the cathedral, and betakes itself to blazoning the donjon keep, in order to lend prestige to feudalism.
Looking up my Rhyming Dictionary I see they are:-- cliff hieroglyph hippogriff skiff sniff stiff tiff whiff Of these one may reject hippogriff at once, as it is in the wrong metre.
Five, the emblem of marriage; Juno's hieroglyphwas five, 634-u.
They were the columns of the intellectual and moral world, the monumental hieroglyph of the antinomy necessary to the grand law of creation.
The name was nothing, if not a symbol and representative hieroglyph of his nature and attributes.
True variations are not found, the hieroglyph being perfectly alike in all the manuscripts.
The symbol or hieroglyph of the deity named "Ekchuah" by the Mayas and considered the patron and protector of peddlers or traveling merchants (Fig.
