Basket (hieroglyph)

Basket
nb
in hieroglyphs
The Ancient Egyptian Basket hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. V30 for a semicircular-shaped, shallow basket. It is an Egyptian language biliteral for nb.[1] The Egyptian uniliterall k, a basket-with-handle, Gardiner no. V31, , is constructed from the basket hieroglyph.

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Basket hieroglyph: list of uses

List of epithet uses

*Lord of the Two Lands,
*Lord of Coronations,
*Lady of the House, , Nephthys.
*Lord of Heaven
(Lord of (the) Sky), nb pt

Pharaonic uses

The pharaoh is often shown in reliefs or in cartouche-related statements as Lord of the Two Lands. The basket hieroglyph is used as 'lord', or 'king'. Queens, or goddesses use the 'lordess' form, the feminine implied from the "t" hieroglyph but not needed for the basket. The basket is used for either.

Rosetta Stone use

A distinctive use of the basket hieroglyph, for nb is in the composition block for the word "everything". One common portrayal is with sieve, 't', basket, , for "everything", or "all things".[2] The Rosetta Stone also uses just the basket, , for "every", "all", "everything", as well as multiple uses for just the word "lord".
Preceded by

"waters"-(ripples) - nut
(or crossroads (hieroglyph)=nut)
basket
nb		 Succeeded by

sail
(th)au/tshau, (nef)
Succeeded by

"stomach + windpipe"
nfr - (tril.)

Gallery: Lord of the Two Lands-(Neb Taui)

Gallery: (basket lines, squares)

See also

References

  1. ^ Wilkinson, 1992. Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture, "Basket", nebet, V30, p. 198-199.
  2. ^ Budge, 1989, (1929), The Rosetta Stone, p. 152.