A windpipe and lungs (F36), in front of a cluster of signs consisting of a tusk of an elephant (F18), above a human hand (D46); above a half round loaf of bread (X1) beside a plan of a crossroads in a village (O49); on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), written on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24) (NL17a)

Readings

Pronunciation: smꜣ-bḥd.t
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+13232
[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 NL17a

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Description: A windpipe and lungs (F36), in front of a cluster of signs consisting of a tusk of an elephant (F18), above a human hand (D46); above a half round loaf of bread (X1) beside a plan of a crossroads in a village (O49); on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), written on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24).
Functions: Logogram (17th nome of Lower Egypt (Diospolis))
Readings (unreviewed): smꜣ-bḥd.t
Core status: Core
Catalogue: NL017A · N-11-046

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