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Egyptian hieroglyphic writing does not normally indicate vowels, unlike cuneiform, and for that reason has been labelled by some as an abjad, i.e., an alphabet without vowels. Thus, hieroglyphic writing representing a pintail duck is read in Egyptian as sꜣ, derived from the main consonants of the Egyptian word for this duck: 's', 'ꜣ' and 't'.
The Egyptian hieroglyphic script contained 24 uniliterals (symbols that stood for single consonants, much like English letters) which today we associate with the 26 glyphs listed below. (Note that the glyph associated with w/u also has a hieratic abbreviation.)
Six of the examples are from Tutankhamun, including a white Alabaster Chest-(Cairo JE 61762), with hieroglyphs down the top center and an end text of three vertical columns. Three cartouches and a horizontal register adorn the box's end text .
Gardiner's sign list is a list of common Egyptian hieroglyphs compiled by Sir Alan Gardiner.It is considered a standard reference in the study of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.
The ancient Egyptian Water-jugs-in-stand hieroglyph, is Gardiner sign listed no. W17, W18, within the Gardiner signs for vessels of stone and earthenware.. The hieroglyph is used as an ideogram in (kh)nt-(ḫnt), for 'a stand (for vases)'.
Their work noted that non-hieroglyphic Egyptian scripts seemed to contain signs derived from hieroglyphs. Barthélemy also pointed out the oval rings, later to be known as cartouches, that enclosed small groups of signs in many hieroglyphic texts, and in 1762 he suggested that cartouches contained the names of kings or gods.
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Égyptien de tradition (term is a French terminus technicus), also known as Traditional Egyptian, [1] is a literary and religious hieroglyphic written language artificially cultivated in ancient Egypt from the later New Kingdom until the Greco-Roman Period (14th century BCE - 4th century CE).