Pick (hieroglyph)
The ancient Egyptian Pick hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed nos. U17, U18 is a portrayal of a 'pick upon the side view of a block'; it is in the Gardiner subset for agriculture, crafts, and professions.
In the Egyptian language, the pick hieroglyph is used as an ideogram or determinative for grg, the verb "to pick through",[1] or for other related words.
Verb: to settle, found, establish
Though the
pick hieroglyph shows: 'use of a pick, upon a surface', the verb "to choose" is not implied. The
Egyptian language verb for 'to pick or select' is used by "to choose", the commonly used
stp hieroglyph, an adze, or specifically the '
adze-on-block (hieroglyph)', Gardiner no. U21, , also in the Gardiner subset of
agriculture, crafts, and professions.
The pick hieroglyph in Budge's two volume dictionary has twelve entries, the final three dealing with "lies" and using the
determinative of the sparrow (hieroglyph), for 'bad', 'evil', Gardiner no. G37 , (and
not a swallow hieroglyph, virtually identical). The main definition of the
pick hieroglyph seems to be to
to pick at (earth), implying use of the pick as a tool for creating a townsite, and 'constructing'; it translates as a
verb,
to found, establish, settle; also
to make ready to be habitable, equip, furnish, and
prepare.
[2] Budge's dictionary sources are ca. 150 authors, and ca. 200 sources:
papyri,
steles, literature,
reliefs, etc. For
grg, "to settle", "to establish", etc. he uses: 1. funerary texts of
Pepi I, (and 2. texts of
Pepi II), 3. texts of King Teta, 4.
Gaston Maspero's 1880
Receuil..., vol 1. (in progress), 5. an
El-Bersheh, London document-(undated), 6. and "A. Z.", German
Zeitschrift fur..., 1863, vol. 1, (a work in progress).
Preceded by
"Nightfall"
grh
(grḥ) |
pick
grg |
Succeeded by
1. "one-half"-2. Dual
1. gs--2. gs
(End of g) |
See also
References
- ^ Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Pick, p. 241.
- ^ Budge, 1978, (1920). An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, gerg, p. 811-812.
- Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Betrò, Maria Carmela, c. 1995, 1996-(English), Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris (hardcover, ISBN 0-7892-0232-8)
- Budge. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, 1978. (In two volumes, 1314 and cliv-(154) pp.) (softcover, ISBN 0-486-23615-3)