Scribe equipment (hieroglyph)

Scribe equipment in hieroglyphs

The ancient Egyptian Scribe equipment hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. Y3, (or reversed, Y4), portrays the equipment of the scribe. Numerous scribes used the hieroglyph in stating their name, either on papyrus documents, but especially on statuary or tomb reliefs.

The hierolyph contains the 3 major components of a scribe's equipment:

tube case – for holding writing-reeds

leather bag – for holding colored inks, (black, red, canonic colors, mixed with H2O and gum)^[1]

wood scribal palette – with mixing pools; (not always made from wood)

Contents 1 Language usage 2 Gallery 2.1 Equipment, as an artifact 3 See also 4 References

Language usage

The scribe equipment hieroglyph is often used as a determinative for items relating to writing or the scribe. The Egyptian language meaning of the hieroglyph is s(sh), (sš).

As the verb, it is used for:^[2] to write, to draw, to make a design, to do into writing.

For the noun:^[3] writing, inscription, written roll of papyrus, book, copy of a document, & handwriting. In plural usage: writings, letters, books, documents, archives, decrees, handwriting, the columns of a book, papers, title-deeds, registers, & literature. (Note, Budge's dictionary, has a "188 page Index" to these word meanings-(200-300 archaeological documents).^[4]

Preceded by door-bolt -- -- ss (and previous: ss, to breathe)

scribe equipment -- -- s(sh)

Succeeded by nest, home, "swamp" -- -- s(sh)

Gallery

Equipment, as an artifact

See also

• Scribe

References

• 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 pp, and cliv-(154) pp.) (softcover, ISBN 0-486-23615-3)