Sky (hieroglyph)

Sky (heaven) in hieroglyphs

The ancient Egyptian Sky hieroglyph, (also translated as heaven in some texts, or iconography), is Gardiner sign listed no. N1, within the Gardiner signs for sky, earth, and water.

The Sky hieroglyph is used like an Egyptian language biliteral-(but is not listed there) and an ideogram in pt, "sky"; it is a determinative in other synonyms of sky. For the language value hrt, it has the phonetic value hry.^[1]

The Sky hieroglyph is often written with the complement of its component values of "p", and "t", , in a hieroglyph composition block, meaning "pt", or commonly 'pet'.