hieroglyph
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A vulture is used as the hieroglyph for mother, mut being the word for them both, and for the mother goddess of Thebes.
From Salon • May 11, 2025
“Not by chance, this hieroglyph is the first character of the divine component of Tutankhamun’s name, ‘-amun,’ in all standard writings.”
From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2022
Some other holes were tagged with the Nefer hieroglyph, the symbol for “good”; perhaps some benefit accrued to pieces that landed there, Carter speculated.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 26, 2019
The Egyptians had a hieroglyph fashioned after the barn owl.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 30, 2015
A symbol to go with Aida was a bit of a problem, but finally Melanie picked the bird hieroglyph because it stood for the letter A in the real Egyptian alphabet.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Vocabulary lists containing hieroglyph
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