Hieroglyphic
Hieroglyphs from the tomb of Seti 1
By unknown Egyptian scribe - The British Museum (http://www.egyptarchive.co.uk/html/british_museum_29.html (Jon Bodsworth) - https://www.egyptarchive.co.uk/), Copyrighted free use, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3210751
Unicode Chart
Maps
Https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Ancient_Egypt_map-en.svg "Ancient Egypt map" by Jeff Dahl licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
DISCLAIMER: This script is still being researched
Data
ISO 15924 | Egyp 050 |
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Type | Logographic With Phonemic Elements |
Direction | TtB if in columns, read towards the faces in the pictograms |
Diacritics | No |
Glyphs | 700 through most time periods, over 5,000 in the Greco-Roman eras. 26 alphabetic signs |
Earliest Date | 3100 BCE |
Latest Date | 400 CE |
Bibliography
Author | Year | Publication | Publisher |
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Ritner, Robert | 1996 | The World's Writing Systems, Hieroglyphic, 73-81 | Oxford University Press |