Townsite-city-region (hieroglyph)

O49
Townsite
City

Crossroads
"Intersection"
in hieroglyphs
Painted wall relief: note that the Ibis, Mut (hieroglyph), Mouth, Iat standart (hieroglyph), and Townsite, all have white paint.

The Egyptian hieroglyph Townsite-city-region is Gardiner sign listed no. O49 for the intersection of a town's streets. In some Egyptian hieroglyph books it is called a city plan.[1]

It is used in Egyptian hieroglyphs as a determinative in the names of town or city placenames. Also, as an ideogram in the Egyptian word "city", niwt.

  1. ^ Betrò, 1995. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, "City Plan", p. 190.

© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search