Gardiner G16
A griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), on top of a wickerwork basket (V30), in front of a cobra (Naja haje), standing up, with expanded hood (uraeus), with a coiled tail (I12), upon a wickerwork basket (V30)
Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed- Description
- A griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), on top of a wickerwork basket (V30), in front of a cobra (Naja haje), standing up, with expanded hood (uraeus), with a coiled tail (I12), upon a wickerwork basket (V30)
- Category
- G
- Shape family
- G-24
- Unicode
- U+13152 · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH G016
- Readings
- nb.ty
- Functions
- logogram
Readings
- nb.ty
- Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
- Pronunciation
- nb.ty
- Note
- Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.
Functions
- Logogram
Words
No example words recorded for this sign yet.
Attestations
No attestations recorded for this sign yet.
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Sources
- [1]
Unicode Consortium. Unikemet Data for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Unicode 17.0.0 (Unikemet-17.0.0.txt).
Cited for: U+13152
- [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 G16
External data
From Unikemet 18.0.0, Unicode, Inc. Not reviewed by this archive; sources vary. Licence · Source
- Description
- A griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), on top of a wickerwork basket (V30), in front of a cobra (Naja haje), standing up, with expanded hood (uraeus), with a coiled tail (I12), upon a wickerwork basket (V30).
- Functions
- Logogram (the two ladies (i.e. Nekhbet and Wadjet)
- Readings (unreviewed)
- nb.ty
- Core status
- Legacy
- Catalogue
- G016 · G-24-029
Unicode License v3 (Unicode terms of use). Retrieved 2026-05-19.
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