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Hare in hieroglyphs

The ancient Egyptian Hare hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. E34 (𓃹) is a portrayal of the desert hare or Cape hare, Lepus capensis of Egypt, within the Gardiner signs for mammals. The ancients used the name of sekhat for the hare.

The biliteral expresses the sound "oon", or "oonen",; it is also an ideogram for the verb "to be", or "to exist", (i.e. "is", "are", "was", etc.).

The famous Pharaoh Unas, (for his Pyramid texts), is named using the hare hieroglyph. It also appears in the name of Wenamun, a (possibly fictional) priest who appears in a famous history of c. 1000 BCE.

Preceded by sun-with-rays - "uben"-phon.-etc. (complex, many word uses)	hare -- un	Succeeded by unem (right = "west") Emblem of the West (hieroglyph)
Succeeded by, swallow-(bil.)--animal leg-(tril.) ---- ur ---- ---- uhm ----

• Relief
• Detail of Hare and water-ripple quadrat (hieroglyph block)
  (also shows Stool-or-mat (hieroglyph) and Throne (hieroglyph))
• Vertical text, hare hieroglyph at beginning
• Partially missing lunette of a stela; Finely executed in shallow, incised-bas relief

See also

• Gardiner's Sign List#E. Mammals
• List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Pharaoh Unas - (titulary)

References

1. Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998. Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook, biliteral: B80, p. 232-233.
2. Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998. Biliteral: B80, p. 232-233.
3. Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998, p. 232-233, p. 232.
4. Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998, p. 232-233, p. 232.

• Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998. Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook, Ruth Schumann-Antelme, and Stéphane Rossini. c 1998, English trans. 2002, Sterling Publishing Co. (Index, Summary lists (tables), selected uniliterals, biliterals, and triliterals.) (softcover, ISBN 1-4027-0025-3)

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