Sun (hieroglyph)

Egyptian hieroglyph

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Sun
"sun-disc"
in hieroglyphs

Hieroglyphs at Karnak. (di-ankh, Rā-ma, djet)
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(given,life)

(rā,like)

(forever)

(Note:Reversed in the Gardiner font.)
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The ancient Egyptian Sun hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. N5 for the sun-disc;[1] it is also one of the hieroglyphs that refers to the god Ra.

The sun hieroglyph is used in the ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs as a determinative to refer to events of time, for example when referring to  '"day xx" (of month yy') . Even the "snap-of-the-finger", a 'moment', or 'instant' of time is represented using a Hippopotamus head (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. F3:  |

, with the sun-disc:  |

, as the time determinative in a hieroglyphic composition block. | |
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("instant")("moment"of"time")

In the 24th century BC Palermo Stone, the sun hieroglyph is used on the Palermo Piece-(obverse) of the 7-piece Palermo Stone to identify dates, or specific "day-events", ..."day of ...." A few of the King Year-Register's are dates only for example in Row V (of VI rows):

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23" (number 10, 10, 3).

Some other common hieroglyphs based on the sun hieroglyph, are the Sun-with-rays (hieroglyph), Gardiner no. N8:  |

, and Sun-rising (hieroglyph)-(Coronations, "Appearance of..."-Palermo Stone), no. N28.  |

. In the 24th century BC Palermo Stone: "Appearance of the King of the South and Appearance of the King of the North".

Ra, the Sun-god is Gardiner listed no. C1, of the listed: Anthropomorphic Deities-(more than 20 listed, and other Gardiner unlisted forms used in Ancient Egypt). The God Ra is shown with a sun-disc upon his head - or another common form with the Sun disc, encircled with Uraeus, (the cobra):  |

## Luwian hieroglyph

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The Luwian language hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs has 7 varieties for the syllable of 's' and 'a'. For 'sa' number 4 (Sa4).

## See also

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* Gardiner's Sign List#N. Sky, Earth, Water
* List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
* Sun rising-Coronation (hieroglyph)

## References

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1. ^ Collier and Manley, 1998, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, C1, sun-disc, p. 136.

* Collier, Mark, and Manley, Bill, How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, c 1998, University of California Press, 179 pp, (with a word Glossary, p 151-61: Title Egyptian-English vocabulary; also an "Answer Key", 'Key to the exercises', p 162-73) (hardcover, ISBN 0-520-21597-4)