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km
a piece of crocodile skin with spines
in hieroglyphs

The Ancient Egyptian Black (hieroglyph), has different forms, but with similar meanings related to the common color black; it has other meanings, elsewhere used by various addititive determinatives.

Ancient Egypt is commonly referred to as 'km.t' , with the theorized reference to the black Nile Delta earth. The determinative O49 is used to designate the term for 'country, inhabited land', called the niw.t (a political designate). It is a circle with a cross which represents a city intersection.

Other word uses of "black" are also related to the, gloomy, or dark.

Hieroglyphic definition of glyph-icon

The hieroglyph I6 is commonly explained as a piece of crocodile skin with spines (Gardiner 2005 (1957): 475).

Rosetta Stone: hieroglyph and Demotic "kmi"-"Egypt"

A cow
identified as "black".

The 198 BC Rosetta Stone uses the Black (hieroglyph) three times to make the name of Egypt: Kam-t, or Kem-t. Of the 21 uses, 6 are for another name of Egypt as iAt.

In the Demotic (Egyptian) text of the Rosetta Stone, the demotic for Egypt is 'Kmi' . There are three uses of the actual Kmi, but 6 others referenced as Kmi refer to iAt in the hieroglyphs.

Kmi—spelling-Egypt—(21 places, sychronized, Demotic–Hieroglyphs)
    1. –Kmi—Ta-Mer-t
    2. –Kmi—Ta-Mer-t
    3. –Kmi—rsy.t + mHty
      (South and North)
    4. –Kmi—"Her taui"
    5. –Kmi—Kam-t-(restored)
    6. –Kmi—Ta-Mer-t
    7. –Kmi—Ta-mer-t
    8. –Kmi—iAt
    9. –Kmi—kam-t
    10. –Kmi—"Her taui"
  • 11.–Kmi—Ta-mer-t
  • 12.–Kmi—iAt
  • 13.–Kmi—iAt
  • 14.–Kmi—XXXXXX-(omitted from text)
  • 15.–Kmi—rsy + mHty
    (South and North)
  • 17.–Kmi—Kam-t
  • 18.–Kmi—iAt
  • 19.–Kmi—taui
  • 20.–Kmi—iAt
  • 21.–Kmi—iAt
  • 22.–Kmi—Ta-Mer-t

Literature

A magazine focussed on Ancient Egypt, its history, its iconography, and its modern day archaeological or linguistic work, is named for the name Kam-t-(Egypt). See Kmt (journal).

  • A cow identified as "black" A cow
    identified as "black"
  • Nectanebo II obelisk, with various hieroglyphs including statement of erecting the obelisk-(to set-up: the Mast hieroglyph). (photo can be high-res expanded) Nectanebo II obelisk, with various hieroglyphs including statement of erecting the obelisk-(to set-up: the Mast hieroglyph). (photo can be high-res expanded)

See also

External links

References

  • Erman, A. and H. Grapow 1926. Wörterbuch der Aegyptischen Sprache. (7 Vols.) Leipzig: J. C. Hinrich.
  • Gardiner, A. H. 2005 (1957). Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs. Oxford: Griffith Institute.
  • Hannig, R. 1995. Die Sprache der Pharaonen: Großes Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch-Deutsch (2800 - 950 v. Chr.). Kulturegeschichte der Antiken Welt 64. Mainz: von Zabern.
  • Wilson, P. 1997. A Ptolemaic Lexikon. A Lexographical Study of the Texts of the Temple of Edfu. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 78. Leuven: Peeters/Department of Oosterse Studies.
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