Baker's tool (hieroglyph)

Hetepet's slab stela, painted limestone.
(seen left of center, in long row of hieroglyphs,
U31
)
Baker's tool
in hieroglyphs
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The Ancient Egyptian Baker's tool hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. U31 for a 'bread-baking oven tool'.

When the 'baker's tool hieroglyph' is used in the vertical, the hieroglyph represents in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs a second form of the alphabetic consonant letter m,[1] The other, older, and more common vertical m is the owl hieroglyph, Gardiner no. G17.
G17
The common form of the horizontal m is a plinth shaped hieroglyph, no. Aa15.
Aa15

The Egyptian hieroglyph alphabetic letters

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

a
G1
i
M17
y
M17 M17
'
D36
(w,u)
G43
B
b
P
p
F
f
M
G17
N
N35
R
D21
H1
h
H2
H
Kh1
Aa1
Kh2
F32
S
O34
(Sh)=Š
N37
Q/K2
N29
K
k
G
g
T
t
ChTj
V13
D
d
Dj
I10
L/(R)
(special)
(Ptolemaic,
etc.)
E23
-- -- -- -- --
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)
-- -- -- -- --
Aa15

M
(horiz)
M2-Plinth
S3

N
(vert)
(see:
N (red crown))
S29

S
(vert)
S (folded)
cloth)

M
(3rd-M
-2nd-vert)
M3-Baker's tool
(vertical)
(additionally 3
for equivalents)
-- -- -- -- --
M17 M17 (2 reeds)

is
Z4 (2 strokes)

y2-Two strokes
G43 (quail)

is
Z7 (coil)

letter w, u
(see w2-Coil)
U33

T
(no. 2)
T2-Pestle

See also

References

  1. Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, "Tool for putting bread in the oven", p. 241.


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