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    The Hippopotamus hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. E25, in the category of mammals. It is used in Egyptian hieroglyphs as a determinative in words...
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  • refer to: Hippopotamus (album), a 2017 album by Sparks Hippopotamus (genus) Hippopotamus (hieroglyph), an Egyptian hieroglyph Hippopotamus (restaurant)...
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  • or photo examples, elucidating the hieroglyphs usage. The hippopotamus, Gardiner E25, shows a "Faience hippopotamus, Meir, 12th Dynasty." The photo is...
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  • Egyptian Hieroglyphic text. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The total...
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    represented using a Hippopotamus head (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. F3: , with the sun-disc: , as the time determinative in a hieroglyphic composition block...
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    other common hieroglyph used to represent Set is a seated god with the head of the Set animal.(C7) The linguistic use of these hieroglyphs in the Egyptian...
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    Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary s. p. 47. Budge (2010). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary. p. 48. Budge (2010). An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary...
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    Seth-Peribsen used the Set animal to write his serekh name in place of the falcon hieroglyph representing Horus. His successor Khasekhemwy used both Horus and Set...
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  • Priest of Ra High steward (Ancient Egypt) Hill-country (hieroglyph) Hippopotamus (hieroglyph) History of Alexandria History of ancient Egypt History of...
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    Taweret (category Hippopotamuses)
    dangerous deities. The deity is typically depicted as a bipedal female hippopotamus with feline attributes, pendulous female human breasts, the limbs and...
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  • with the hieroglyph for "crook-staff"-- (1/4 of palette face). Bird - (non-typical, sitting Goose-(duck)) Fish-(Dolphin-shape) Hippopotamus Turtle Battlefield...
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    goddess[clarification needed] with the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a hippopotamus, and the head of a crocodile—the three largest "man-eating" animals known...
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    Lower Egypt, symbolically binding the two halves of the country around a hieroglyph meaning "union". This symbolic representation was often carved at the...
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  • 1960s, Mertz authored two books on ancient Egypt: Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs, a popular history of ancient Egypt; and Red Land, Black Land, which...
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    queen). The Pyramid Texts were written in an unusual hieroglyphic style; many of the hieroglyphs representing humans or animals were left incomplete or...
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    a hieroglyph represented to the right of the lioness. The reverse of the cosmetic palette has iconography that became hieroglyphs for the: clenched...
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    is shown inspecting a fleet, killing a hippopotamus in Hefat during festivities and offering the hippopotamus to Hemen. A round-topped stela from the...
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  • Dynastic period of Ancient Egypt. It depicts a man on a boat alongside a hippopotamus and a crocodile Damaged basalt head of a foreigner, from a door socket...
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    pronounced *sūtiẖ [ˈsuw.tixʲ] based on spellings of his name in Egyptian hieroglyphs as stẖ and swtẖ. The Late Egyptian spelling stš reflects the palatalization...
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    be fed to a monster, Ammit, that was believed to be part lion, part hippopotamus, and part crocodile. Shaw and Nicholson, p. 59 Spencer, p. 115 David...
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  • Ȧpit, Apt, Apet, Aptu, Epet, Opet, or Ȧpȧpit in outdated literature, a hippopotamus goddess commonly identified with Taweret. Budge 1920, p. 42 Erman, Adolf;...
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    wife was Ma'at. He was the god of the Moon, wisdom, knowledge, writing, hieroglyphs, science, magic, art and judgment. Thoth's chief temple was located in...
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    phoenix and winged serpent, and gives inaccurate descriptions of the hippopotamus and horned viper. Herodotus was quite critical about the stories he heard...
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    hymn dedicated to Re-Harakhti was found. Intef is depicted spearing hippopotamus and in another scene he is shown fishing and fowling. List of Theban...
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    wall tiles, which were mostly used for temples. The well-known blue hippopotamus figurines, placed in the tombs of officials, can be up to 20 cm (7.9 in)...
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    taking the role of Horus, and a wild hippopotamus embodying Seth. The king's successful slaughter of the hippopotamus thus connected his martial prowess...
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    numbering using hieroglyphs. Prior to this, important year events were merely depicted in signs and miniatures, sometimes guided by the hieroglyphic sign rnpt...
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  • automated sentry guns. At daybreak, they explore the city and surmise from hieroglyphs that the inhabitants bred the gray gorillas to guard the mine. At the...
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    might rest in it". It may be that the Royal Wadi's resemblance to the hieroglyph for horizon showed that this was the place to found the city. The city...
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    in Egypt. The Minoans developed two writing systems known as Cretan hieroglyphs and Linear A. Because neither script has been fully deciphered, the identity...
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