Gardiner M23

A sedge

M ยท Trees and plants

Aggregated from sources ยท not yet reviewed

Curated notes on this page are not yet reviewed against the cited works.

Readings and pronunciation

sw
Phonogram ยท biliteral
[1]
nswt
Logogramking (of Upper Egypt)
[1][2]
Pronunciation
n(.y)-sw.t
Note
Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Example words

nswt
๐“‡“
๐“
๐“ˆ–
Spelled with M23, X1, N35

king

Role: Logogram

The sedge is written first out of respect, though n and t are read around it.

[3]
nswt-b๊žฝty
๐“‡“
๐“†ค
๐“
๐“
Spelled with M23, L2, X1, X1

king of Upper and Lower Egypt

Role: Logogram

[3]

Attestations

The offering formula
Formula

Funerary stelae and false doors, Old Kingdom onward

แธฅtp-d๊žฝ-nswt

โ€œan offering which the king givesโ€

The sedge for nswt is written first, before the offering table and the loaf.

[1]

Sources

[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 M23; Sign-list L2; Excursus B

[2]

Unicode Consortium. Unikemet Data for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Unicode 17.0.0 (Unikemet-17.0.0.txt).

Cited for: U+131D3

[3]

Faulkner, Raymond O. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Griffith Institute, 1962.

Cited for: s.v. nswt; s.v. nswt-b๊žฝty