TSL_1_194
Description: A man, squatting on his heel, right knee raised, right hand forward, holding the top of a horizontal drill of a bow-drill, with the point of the drill in a base that is shaped like N25, left arm in front of body, holding the bow of the bow drill.
Category: Men and their occupations [Gardiner A]
Basic Form: full quadrat
Tag: holding somethingkneeledmanworkinghilldrill
Type: compound
Components
TSL_1_4227_00
Bibliography
Codes
Hieroglyphica  A142
Jsesh  A142
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edited by Université de Liège and Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Credits
Creator: I. Hafemann
Editor(s): J. Grotenhuis, L. Seelau
logogram (1 function(s))
Phonetic value Semantic value Use
jm.y-r'/wbꜣ smy.t overseer/who opens the desert cryptographic
Comment For the different reading see the bibliography below.
Tokens
TokenSourceDate

mr=k ḥḥ.w ḥm.wt sꜣ.w=k rḫ nswt ẖty jm.y-r'/wbꜣ smy.wt jꜣb.twt
May you love millions of women, ??? your sons, royal acquaintance, Khety, overseer of/who opens the eastern deserts.
11th Dynasty (after reunification)
Bibliography
Kuentz, Ch. (1934), Remarques sur les statues de Ḥarwa. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 34, 143-163, p. 149
Fischer, Henry George (1996), Egyptian Studies III, Varia Nova, p. 211
Morenz, L.D. (1998), Review: Fischer, Henry George 1996. Varia nova. Egyptian Studies 3. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Discussions in Egyptology 41, 93-102, p. 101-102
Morenz, L. D. (2008), Sinn und Spiel der Zeichen: visuelle Poesie im Alten Ägypten. Pictura et Poesis 21, p. 141-143
Credits
Creator: Ph. Seyr
Editor(s): J. Grotenhuis, Ph. Seyr

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