The Polychrome Hieroglyph Research Project

Université Libre de Bruxelles - Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales

This page displays a list of all signs in a Gardiner group. Usage abbreviations are "I" (Ideogram), "D" (Determinative) and "P" (Phoneme). Click on a Hieroglyph to list all occurrences of the sign.

Signs in Group O : Buildings, Parts of Buildings, etc.

O1 house

Usage: I, D 'house, building, seat, horizon'; P Phonetic value(s): pr

O1* two houses O1 joined together

Usage: I, D 'houses, buildings'; P Phonetic value(s): pr.wy

O2 combination of house O1 and mace T3

Usage: I 'treasury=white house' Phonetic value(s): pr-HD

O2* combination of house O1 and heart and windpipe F35

Usage: I 'house of embalming' Phonetic value(s): pr-nfr

O3 combination of house O1, oar P8 and vessels X3 and W22

Usage: I 'invocation offerings' Phonetic value(s): prt-xrw

O4 reed shelter in fields

Usage: I 'room'; P Phonetic value(s): h

O5 winding wall

Usage: D 'street, traverse, lowing' Phonetic value(s): mr, nm

O6 rectangular enclosure seen in plan

Usage: I 'castle' Phonetic value(s): Hwt

O7 rectangular enclosure - alternative form of O6 (XVIII dyn.)

Usage: I 'castle' Phonetic value(s): Hwt

O7* Enclosure O 7 repeated twice

Usage: I, D 'temples' Phonetic value(s): Hwt wrt

O8 combination of enclosure O7 and column O29

Usage: I 'temple' Phonetic value(s): Hwt-aAt

O9 combination of enclosure O7 and basket V30

Usage: I 'Nephthys' Phonetic value(s): nbt-Hyt

O10 combination of enclosure O6 and falcon G5

Usage: I 'Hathor' Phonetic value(s): Ht-Hr

O11 palace with battlements

Usage: I 'palace' Phonetic value(s): aH

O12 combination of palace O11 and arm D36

Usage: I 'palace' Phonetic value(s): aH

O13 battlement enclosure

Usage: D 'gateway, enclose' Phonetic value(s):

O14 portion and alternative of enclosure O13

Usage: D 'gateway, enclose' Phonetic value(s):

O15 walled enclosure with buttresses and with the signs W10 and X1

Usage: I 'hall (in palace or temple)' Phonetic value(s): wsxt

O16 gateway(?) surmounted by protecting serpents

Usage: I, D 'curtain(?), vizir' Phonetic value(s): TA, Taty

O17 gateway O16 (O.K. form)

Usage: I, D 'curtain(?), vizir' Phonetic value(s): TA, Taty

O18 shrine seen from side

Usage: I, D 'chapel, shrine' Phonetic value(s): kA(r)i

O19 primitive shrine

Usage: D 'Great House= shrine at Nekhen' Phonetic value(s):

O20 shrine

Usage: D 'sanctuary, shrine' Phonetic value(s):

O21

Usage: I, D 'the Divine Booth' Phonetic value(s):

O22 open booth supported by a pole

Usage: I, D 'booth'; P Phonetic value(s):

O23 hall used in the Sed-festival

Usage: I, D 'Sed-festival' Phonetic value(s): Hb-sd

O24 pyramid with side of surrounding wall

Usage: D 'pyramid' Phonetic value(s):

O25 obelisk

Usage: I, D 'obelisk' Phonetic value(s): txn

O26 stela

Usage: I, D 'stela' Phonetic value(s): wD

O27 hall of columns

Usage: D 'hall of columns'; P Phonetic value(s): xA

O28 column with tenon on top

Usage: I 'column'; P Phonetic value(s): iwn

O29 wooden column (also written vertically)

Usage: P Phonetic value(s): aA

O30 supporting pole

Usage: I, D 'support (of heaven)' Phonetic value(s): sxnt

O31 door

Usage: I, D 'door, open' Phonetic value(s): aA

O32 gateway

Usage: I, D 'door, gateway' Phonetic value(s): sbA

O33

Usage: D 'banner (for Horus-name)' Phonetic value(s):

O34 bolt

Usage: I 'bolt'; P Phonetic value(s): s

O35 combination of bolt O34 and legs walking D54

Usage: D 'walking, go, bring, motion with radical s' Phonetic value(s):

O36 wall (occasionally written horizontaly)

Usage: I, D 'wall' Phonetic value(s): inb

O37 falling wall

Usage: D 'overthrow, demolish, slanting' Phonetic value(s):

O38 corner of wall

Usage: D 'corner, angle, gate, magistrates' Phonetic value(s):

O39 stone slab or brick

Usage: D 'stone, brick, deben (weight)' Phonetic value(s):

O40 stairway

Usage: D 'stairway, terrace' Phonetic value(s):

O41 double stairway

Usage: D 'stairway, ascent, high place' Phonetic value(s):

O42 fence outside primitive shrine

Usage: P Phonetic value(s): Ssp (sSp)

O43 O.K. form of fence O42

Usage: P Phonetic value(s): Ssp (sSp)

O44 emblem erected outside the temple of Min

Usage: I, D 'office, rank' Phonetic value(s): iAt

O45 domed building

Usage: I, D 'harim' Phonetic value(s): ipt

O46 older form of domed building O45

Usage: I, D 'harim' Phonetic value(s): ipt

O47 a prehistoric building at Hieraconpolis (Nekhen) (XVIII dyn.)

Usage: I 'Nekhen' Phonetic value(s):

O48 building at Nekhen (alternative form of O47)

Usage: I 'Nekhen' Phonetic value(s):

O49 village with crossroads

Usage: I, D 'village, town' Phonetic value(s): niwt

O50 circular threshing-floor covered with grain

Usage: D 'threshing-floor'; P Phonetic value(s): sp

O51 heap of grain on a raised mud floor

Usage: I, D 'granary' Phonetic value(s): Snwt

O157* divine emblem in booth (tent)

Usage: I, D 'divine booth' Phonetic value(s):