Hieroglyphic

Script Details

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

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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
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
Ritner, Robert 1996 The World's Writing Systems, Hieroglyphic, 73-81 Oxford University Press