Gardiner S40
A sceptre with a straight shaft, a forked base, topped with the head of the Seth animal
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- Description
- A sceptre with a straight shaft, a forked base, topped with the head of the Seth animal
- Category
- S
- Shape family
- S-23
- Unicode
- U+13300 · EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH S040
- Readings
- wꜣs
- Functions
- phonogram
Readings
- wꜣs
- Aggregated from sources · not yet reviewed
- Pronunciation
- wꜣs
- Note
- Vowels are not attested in Egyptian writing; the transliteration is a modern scholarly convention, not a reconstructed pronunciation.
Functions
- Phonogram · triliteral
Words
No example words recorded for this sign yet.
Attestations
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Sources
- [1]
Unicode Consortium. Unikemet Data for Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Unicode 17.0.0 (Unikemet-17.0.0.txt).
Cited for: U+13300
- [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 S40
External data
From Unikemet 18.0.0, Unicode, Inc. Not reviewed by this archive; sources vary. Licence · Source
- Description
- A sceptre with a straight shaft, a forked base, topped with the head of the Seth animal.
- Functions
- Phonemogram
- Readings (unreviewed)
- wꜣs
- Core status
- Core
- Catalogue
- S040 · S-23-001
Unicode License v3 (Unicode terms of use). Retrieved 2026-05-19.
History
Direct edit
Changed sign S40
- Common rank
- — → 169
Edited by Archive maintainers