Ships and parts of ships

The hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt are often listed in groups of associated glyphs. The following hieroglyphs have been grouped according to the system established by Sir Alan Gardiner and are all depictions of ships and parts of ships.




P1; ship
P1
Det; ship, sail, to sail
P1a; capsized ship
P1a
Det; capsize
P2; sailing ship
P2
Det; sail upstream
P3; holy barque with Naos shrine
P3
Det and Log; Neshemet barque, holy barque, to cross, to sail in a holy barque
P4; fishing boat
P4
Abbr; fisherman
P5; winding wall
P5
Det and Log; sail, sailor , north, north wind
P6; mast
P6
Log; building, temple, enclosure, foundation
P7; mast and arm
P7
Log; building, temple, enclosure, foundation
P8; an estate with the signs for a pillar and bread
P8
Phon; hrw Phon Det; hrw in "justified" Det and Log; voice, oar
P9; oar and a snake
P9
Abbr; hrwj.fj "he said" at the end of a quote
P10; new moon
P10
Det; rudder
P11; mooring post
P11
Det; mooring post









Codes

Abb; the sign is an abbreviation of a word,
Det; the sign acts as a determinative (it has no phonetic value, but provids further information about the full word),
Log; the sign is a logogram (it represents an entire word or idea),
Phon; the sign has a phonetic value, and
Phon Det; the sign is a phonetic determinant (it acts as a determinative but also has a phonetic value).

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