TSL_1_3542
Description: An ostrich (Struthio camelus), with one wing downwards and one wing upwards.
Category: Birds [Gardiner G]
Basic Form: full quadrat
Tag: ostrich
Type: simple
No exact example as phoneme or determinative known.


Bibliography
Wiedemann, A. (1895), Inscriptions of the time of Amenophis IV. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 17, 152-157, p. 154-155, Comment the reading and the phonetic use of the sign, suggest an old reading mꜣ for "ostrich" and a link between this sign with extended wings and the sign G47 𓅷 who would depict a young ostrich.
Codes
Hieroglyphica  G34A
Jsesh  G34A
Cite as

Please cite as: Sign TSL_1_3542 <http://thotsignlist.org/mysign?id=3542>, in: Thot Sign List <http://thotsignlist.org>,
edited by Université de Liège and Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Credits
Creator: D. Serova
Editor(s): J. Grotenhuis

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