The Polychrome Hieroglyph Research Project

Université Libre de Bruxelles - Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales

This page displays a list of all occurrences from a selected Monument. Occurrences with no image can still have a full description. Exemplars are indicated by a solid border. Click on the exemplar image to access the details.

Wer-bauw - Saqqara - Dynasty V

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A108* singer, with upturned palm, arm outstretched and with long lock of hair (glyph copied from Smith)
flesh red, hair and beard black, kilt white
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D21 mouth
red
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D28 arms extended so as to embrace?
red
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D36 forearm
red
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F39 backbone with spinal cord issuing from it
red
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G29 jabiru
beak and legs red, head and wing blue, outline red
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G36 swallow or martin (swallow tail)
head and wing blue, white breast, red legs and beak
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M16 clump of papyrus
green plant, yellow tips to flowers
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M23 plant regarded as typical of Upper Egypt (M26?)
green
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O29 wooden column (also written vertically)
red
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R8 cloth wound on a pole, emblem of divinity
lower part of pole green, upper part red lines on white
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S29 folded cloth
red
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U1 sickle
green
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V30 wickerwork basket
green
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W17 water-pots in a rack (XII-XVIII dyn.)
red
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X1 bread
blue
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X2 loaf
red
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Aa1 kind of sieve? Or maybe a placenta?
yellow with red outline and red lines
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Aa1 kind of sieve? Or maybe a placenta?
green
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Aa1 kind of sieve? Or maybe a placenta?
blue