Stair-single (hieroglyph)

Stair-(Single) in hieroglyphs

Relief with offerings to Sobek, showing Stair-Double; (See in Budge, Rdu, the stairs of Sobek).^[1] (The offering relief is by Scribe Aa-mer-R-u(coil)-t, (Aa-mer-r-u-t); a meteor (hieroglyph) unlisted replaces the incense-pot.)

The ancient Egyptian Single-Stair hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. O40 is a single staircase in the Gardiner subset for "buildings, parts of buildings, etc." A second full double-staircase is no. O41,^[2]

In the Egyptian language, the single stair hieroglyph is used as a determinative.

Preceded by leg rd

single- stair (determinative) rd="stairs" "staircase"

Succeeded by bread-cone (di) rdi

See also

• Gardiner's Sign List#O. Buildings, Parts of Buildings, etc.

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, 1978, (1920). An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, c 1978; cliv-(154) and 1314 pp. (In two volumes) (softcover, ISBN 0-486-23615-3)