Pick (hieroglyph)

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).