Gardiner NL5a

A shield with a rounded top, with two arrows crossed over it, fletching upwards (T62) in front of a whip with a loop at the front (V23A) on top of a half round loaf of bread (X1); on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24)

NL · Nome standards of Lower Egypt

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Readings and pronunciation

n.t-mḥ.yt
LogogramNeith-North, 5th nome of Lower Egypt
[1]
Pronunciation
n.t-mḥ.yt
Note
Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.

Sources

[1]

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

Cited for: U+13225

[2]

Gardiner, Alan H. Egyptian Grammar. 3rd ed. Griffith Institute, 1957.

Origin of the Gardiner sign-list numbering (e.g. A1, D21).