Stool-or-mat (hieroglyph)

Mat
(for stool)
Stool
in hieroglyphs

The Ancient Egyptian Mat hieroglyph, (originally for a stool), and later the Stool hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. Q3 originally was the stool's rectangular mat; later it became the representaion for the stool itself.[1]

The Mat or Stool hieroglyph is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs for the alphabetic consonant letter p.

The Egyptian hieroglyph alphabetic letters

The following two tables show the Egyptian uniliteral signs. (24 letters, but multiple use hieroglyphs)

a
i
y
'
(w,u)
B
P
F
M
N
R
H1
H2
Kh1
Kh2
S
(Sh)=Š
Q/K2
K
G
T
ChTj
D
Dj
L/(R)
(special)
(Ptolemaic,
etc)
-- -- -- -- --
a i
(ee)
y
ii
'
ah, (aïn)
w, (u)
(oo)
B
P F M N R H1
H2 (Kh)1 (Kh)2 S Sh
(Sh)
K
emphatic
K G T Tj
Ch
Tsh
D Dj
(additionally 4
for vert/horiz)
-- -- -- -- --
M
(horiz)
M2-Plinth
N
(vert)
(see:
N (red crown))
S
(vert)
S (folded
cloth)
M
(3rd-M
-2nd-vert)
M3-Baker's tool
(additionally 3
for equivalents)
-- -- -- -- --

is—
y2-Two strokes

is—
letter w, u
(see w2-Coil)
T
(no. 2)
T2-Pestle

During the past few years we have discovered the mat and stool to represent the god Pluto.

See also

References

  1. ^ Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998. Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook, uniliteral: U18, p. 52-53.