Gardiner NL8

An one-barbed harpoon, with handle, written horizontally (T21), on top of a crescent moon shape, connected by three lines, in front of a spear made into a standard, with a circle on either side of the spear tip, with a loop over the standard (Jsesh/Gardiner R15); on top of a standard used for carrying religious symbols (R12), written on top of a parcel of land with irrigation ditches (N24)

NL · Nome standards of Lower Egypt

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Readings and pronunciation

wꜥ-m-ḥww-ꞽꜣb.ty
Logogram8th nome of Lower Egypt
[1]
Pronunciation
wꜥ-m-ḥww-ꞽꜣb.ty
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+13228

[2]

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

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