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Main article: List of hieroglyphs/I
km
Charcoal block
Flames on one end
in hieroglyphs
X5
Charcoal block
Flames on one end
approximated, but with flames
in hieroglyphs


The Egyptian hieroglyph for "black" in Gardiner's sign list is numbered I6. Its phonetic value is Error: {{Lang}}: unrecognized language code: ety (help).

Budge's dictionary has 27 entries using the hieroglyph, many referencing items of black; the first two entries deal with an item that 'burns out'-things that 'come to an end'.)

The hieroglyph is commonly explained as a brick of black-charcoal, with flames arising out of one end.

km.t

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.

A cow
identified as "black".
M1t
O49
 
or
 
km
t		 O49
Egypt named
"Baq-t" or "Kam-t"
in hieroglyphs

The 198 BC Rosetta Stone uses the Black (hieroglyph) three times to make the name of Egypt: Kam-t, or Kem-t. Of the 22 uses, 7 are for another name of egypt as Baq-t.

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 Baq-t in the hieroglyphs; there is one actual 'Bki' in the Demotic text that is used in a pairing sentence, for emphasis: "... Baq-t... and... Kam-t."-(Rosetta Stone, line 6)

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

See also

External links

References

  1. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, (letter K, volume 2, pp 787-788)
  2. Gardiner 2005 (1957): 498
  • Budge. An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, 1978. (In two volumes) (softcover, ISBN 0-486-23615-3)
  • Budge. A Hieroglyphic Dictionary to the Book of the Dead, E.A.Wallace Budge, Dover edition, 1991; Original: c 1911 as: A Hieroglyphic Vocabulary to the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead with an Index to All the English Equivalents of the Egyptian Words, (Kegan Paul, etc. Ltd, London, publisher). Dover: (softcover, ISBN 0-486-23724-5)
  • 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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