Gardiner E19

A jackal, standing, tail down (E17), on top of a standard used for the carrying of religious symbols, with an uraeus and šdšd-protuberance at the front of the standard, with a mace (T3) written horizontally over the vertical pole of the standard

Description: A jackal, standing, tail down (E17), on top of a standard used for the carrying of religious symbols, with an uraeus and šdšd-protuberance at the front of the standard, with a mace (T3) written horizontally over the vertical pole of the standard
Category: E
Shape family: E-06
Unicode: U+130E8 · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH E019
Readings: wp-wꜣ.wt
Functions: classifier

Readings

Pronunciation: wp-wꜣ.wt
Note: Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

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[1]: Unicode Consortium. Unikemet Data for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Unicode 17.0.0 (Unikemet-17.0.0.txt).
Cited for: U+130E8
[2]: Gardiner, Alan H. Egyptian Grammar. 3rd ed. Griffith Institute, 1957.
Origin of the Gardiner sign-list numbering (e.g. A1, D21).
Cited for: Sign-list E19

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Description: A jackal, standing, tail down (E17), on top of a standard used for the carrying of religious symbols, with an uraeus and šdšd-protuberance at the front of the standard, with a mace (T3) written horizontally over the vertical pole of the standard.
Functions: Classifier Wepwawet
Readings (unreviewed): wp-wꜣ.wt
Core status: Core
Catalogue: E019 · E-06-022

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