TSL_1_6998
Description: A span of oxen with a plough, which is held by a man, standing, bent forward, and with another man, standing, bent forward, holding a stick in his right hand, as if to strike, with the left arm hanging beside the body, behind the plough, between the span of oxen and the man holding the plough.
Category: Men and their occupations [Gardiner A]
Basic Form: full quadrat
Tag: armed character, bent, bovid, cow, holding stick, man, ox, plough, standing, with animals
Type: composite
Components
TSL_1_234_00   TSL_1_2397_00   TSL_1_6081_00   TSL_1_383_00
Bibliography
Polis, Stéphane (2022), Comment fonctionne l'écriture hiéroglyphique. In Polis, Stéphane (ed.), Guide des écritures de l'Égypte ancienne, 42-49., p. 45, Polis proposes the 'maximal' reading skꜣ m ḥtr.wy (m) hb m tp rmṯ.w “(j’étais quelqu’un) qui labourait à l’aide d’un attelage de bœufs et d’une charrue (agissant) comme premier des hommes” for the occurrence of the on the stela Chicago, ISAC Museum, E16956, l. 6-7.
Seyr, Ph. (2023), Graphetic compounding in the First Intermediate Period: the micro-history of [hiero] ḥtr.wy "span" and the process of sign decomposition. Hieroglyphs 1, 149-183, p. 159-163, 171-173
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edited by Université de Liège and Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

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