Gardiner G39

A pintail duck (Anas acuta)

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Readings and pronunciation

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

"Son of Re" title: Formula
Royal titulary, fifth name
sꜣ rꜥ
“son of Re”
Introduces the king's birth name inside a cartouche.
[1]

[1]: 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 G39; Sign-list G38; Excursus A
[2]: Unicode Consortium. Unikemet Data for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Unicode 17.0.0 (Unikemet-17.0.0.txt).
Cited for: U+1316D
[3]: Faulkner, Raymond O. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute, 1962.
Cited for: s.v. sꜣ; s.v. sꜣt