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How to write your name in Meroitic hieroglyphs

One of the latest books the Word Geek purchased tells about the land south of ancient Egypt, a place with many names. Sometimes it was called Kush (also sometimes spelled Cush). Sometimes it was known as Meroe. And at other times, it was called Nubia. There were once distinctions among these three monikers, but all of them were once found in what is now Sudan, they are all fascinating, and none of them of particularly well understood.

The people of this (or these) fabled land(s) were influenced by ancient Egypt and eventually built their own pyramids, carved their own head bonking scenes in stone just like the Egyptian pharaohs had done for ages, and inscribed hieroglyphic messages to boot. Cheap UGG Boots On Sale But they often wrote in their own language, not so much in Egyptian, but nobody really knows precisely what language they once spoke, except that it was Meroitic whatever that was. The symbols they used were borrowed from Egyptian, but the people of Meroe didn have the patience to use all 400 plus of the northern type, so they extracted fewer than 30 and came up with a handy alphabet for their own use. Scholars can now sound out the Meroitic inscriptions, but only a few words are understood. Here is the Meroitic alphabet (of which a few symbols are actually syllables, you notice):

The first symbol, for the vowel comes from a little Egyptian man who is sitting on one foot with the other knee up, his right elbow bent and his hand before him, his left elbow also bent and his hand on his chest (perhaps but since they didn show perspective it hard to tell for sure). As one can see, the Meroitic fellow isn quite the same, since his right hand is held up high and his left hand is down at his side. But who cares? There are no other little men sitting down in any other fashion in the Meroitic system to confuse with him, as there are in the Egyptian system, so it doesn much matter where his hands and feet are.

In Egypt, this little guy was sometimes an ideogram in the word for This means he told the reader that the word meant what he looked like, namely "man." But he also did double duty as the pronoun when the speaker was male. He could also play determinative, to hint that other words had something or other to do with human activities. All of which means that readers never quite knew what he was doing. And if his hands moved down to his sides or up to his mouth or he got up on his heel instead of sitting down properly, he meant something else entirely!

The second symbol, a feather, represents the vowel in the Meroitic system. In Egypt, this same feather was often shw and appeared in words having to do with air. But it was also the symbol for the goddess Maat (also known as m3 in proper transcription), the divine lady who stood for truth, justice, and righteousness. One suspects that the ordinary word for was pronounced with an eh sound at the beginning in Nubia, but not in Egypt, in the old days.

The next vowel, also has a little man to represent it. He has one hand up in the air like the first little guy, something the Egyptian little guys did not do. Their little man sometimes held one hand ugg australia outlet store online out in front of himself, when acting as a determinative for words that had to do with calling. Otherwise, if he wanted to put one hand up in the air, he also had to put the other up high at the same time. The people of Kush evidently weren so picky about raising hands.

The sound is represented by an ox head in the Meroitic alphabet, an ox head with longer horns than the usual Egyptian ox head, I must say. This critter was often k3 in Egyptian, which suggests that the word for an ox differed in these two countries in antiquity. Unless, of course, the Meroitic beastie was mooing and saying "o o o o" while he was at it.

Two feather like leaves represent in Meroitic, as they did in Egyptian, so not everything was changed in its march to the south. The next symbol is also somewhat similar. The bent over curlicue is drawn slightly differently, and while it only in Meroe, it was just slightly longer in Egypt as w3. That little glottal stop (or catch in the throat, written with what looks like the number 3) may not have been noticeable to the southern folks making up their alphabet. Besides, the curlicue is easier to draw than the little chick that the Egyptians used for the same sound.

However, the Meroitic alphabet chose a more difficult than the Egyptian one. Instead of the little shank and foot, they picked out the ram, which was b3 up north. Once more, they ignored the glottal stop and took only the initial consonant.

The next symbol is a bit of a puzzle, though. Egyptian has lots of rectangles, some rounded, some with internal decorations, but none quite like what the Meroitic alphabet has for the sound. The ancient Egyptian sound was written simply by a little, bitty square, which could hardly be made easier, but obviously their southern neighbors didn care for that one. Maybe this is the determinative for the stone, perhaps UGG Boots On Sale the prehistoric building with the two little lines in it, perhaps an odd pool of water. The Word Geek is stumped.

But good, old comes to the rescue. This is our old friend, the owl, in both countries. In Egypt, he usually had eyes and wings detailed as well, but that a minor issue. Moving on to the Egyptians usually wrote only one zigzaggy water for this sound, but nn with two of them was their word for This is what the Meroitic alphabet apparently seized on.

The next symbol is a type of reedy plant which, written singly, was typically pronounced sw in Egypt. That not much like ny or ne, the Meroitic pronunciation. But perhaps the southern folk had noticed that the most common word in which this symbol was found, up north, was one of the many words for the king of Egypt, niswt or nsw. In this word, although the sound came first, the Egyptians normally wrote the plant part first one of their many quirks. So, maybe the sound of this symbol doubled is all a big misunderstanding.

The next symbol is another of those oddities for which the Word Geek has no explanation. In Egypt the rectangle was a pool of water and pronounced sh. In Meroe it was pronounced r. Well, who knows? Maybe the word for water was simply different. Or maybe the Nubians weren saying They might have been saying or

The reclining lion was originally rw in Egyptian, but later on, it was used to write the sound in foreign names. So, it not too surprising that the people of Kush used it for their But what is the explanation for the mouth, which was r in Egypt, becoming the kh sound in the Meroitic alphabet? Perhaps the word for mouth began with that throaty sound, down south. Of course, the symbol didn have that little extra line in the middle, in Egypt. But that may not mean anything.

There seems to be a little jar for the with the line under it, a sound that English rarely uses. This sound is heard when we start to say the name Hugh, trying to say the sound while simultaneously getting the tongue in the position to make the sound for (because that name is like h y oo). But that little jar isn very Egyptian. Four possible jars from Egyptian hieroglyphs present themselves: Gardiner W6, W7, W23, and W23. On the other hand, this might not be a jar at all. It could be an effort at drawing the Egyptian heart, which looks a lot like a little jar to the Word Geek, and which Gardiner classified as F34. The Egyptians pronounced this ib. However that was, none of this seems to explain why the drawing ends up with the sound it has.

The symbol for the Meroitic sh sound (or simply the "s") is a bit long in the stems and only has triangles in between the flowers. But it bears more ugg men's classic short 5800 black boots than a passing resemblance to a rounded rectangle with three upended triangles on stems in Egyptian (M8). These are separated, not by two seated triangles but by two leaves on their own stems. Ah well, close enough! Both triangles and leaves are pointy. The people in the north called this s3 while the folks down south left off the glottal stop as usual.

Now the Meroitic plain "s" or se seems to be a box. The Egyptian box or square is their "p," which doesn match. However, the Meroitic version has lines which overlap at each corner, a feature not shared by their northern neighbors. So, perhaps this isn the same thing. The bird in the following picture is difficult to identify without fine details, since the northern kingdom used a great number of birds for many different sounds. It probably either the white fronted goose (G38, gb) or the pintail duck (G39, s3). These always confuse everyone unless the pintail duck has his pintails showing. But the sound is closer to gb minus the second consonant.

The sound is very close in both sound and representation to the Egyptian, adding only a little triangle to one end. In Egypt, that symbol originally had a slightly different sound, but by the Late Kingdom (and perhaps already by Middle Kingdom times), it sounded like a regular squared off curlicue is rather different, though. The Meroitic alphabet adds a line above this symbol, making it a In Egyptian, without that added line, it was an sound. Go figure! The ox horn, which represents for the Nubians, had several names in Egyptian, but none of them seems to have given its sound to these southern people ( db, hnt).

The last alphabetic symbol represents the sound in Meroe, which seems to be taken out of the middle of an Egyptian word for the wedjat. This was the name for the uninjured eye of the hawk or falcon god, Horus, who lost his other eye in a fight with another deity. But that another story. This wedjat eye was more complex in Egypt, having also an eyebrow and a two step mark coming down from the bottom, as well as a bigger and curlier curlicue in most cases. But there no mistaking the wedjat eye, either north or south. Perhaps it was really an udat eye by the time the Nubians learned about it and the initial vowel didn count, from their point of view, thus explaining the sound in Nubia.

The Meroitic system of writing had only one form of punctuation, a group of three vertical dots separating words from each other. There was no comma or period to separate phrases or sentences, no exclamation mark, no question mark, etc. Wasn that handy? In Egyptian, they didn even have word separators. Everything just ran together. The only thing that was ever separated out was the king name. That went into a cartouche, a kind of magical knot.

So now you can write your name in Meroitic hieroglyphs. If you like, you can set it off with a cartouche, Egyptian style, too, and pretend you are royal. Throw in a nice head bonking scene, in which you grasp your enemy by the hair say, those doughnuts that have been screaming your name from the pantry for the last half hour and you thus bonk UGG Boots On Sale them over the head to vanquish them. Then you may reign for a million years. To do that, you show your million year reign with a little man seated as in the letter above, but with both hands raised. Now wasn that fun?

Now, for your enjoyment, here a Meroitic Miss, minus her arms, from a nice book on Egypt that I found in my library. Perhaps her reign was just slightly LESS than a million years. Although it is not known for certain just who this beautiful lady was, she may have been the Kushite Divine Consort Amenirdas I who held sway in the area of Thebes during the Twenty Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, when kings from Nubia ruled both the southern land of Kush and the northern land of Egypt. She wears the traditional vulture crown of Egypt on her head. Once, she would have had a tall headdress above this, but some tomb robber removed that, long ago, along with the golden mask she wore and possibly her arms.

How would you spell her name in Meroitic? Seated man (A), owl (M), feather (E), water (N), standing man (I), rectangle of water (R), wedjat eye (D), seated man (A), and for the final letter (S), you can choose between the simple box or the fancy flowers and triangles (I choose the latter since she a queen). Royal ladies ought to have a determinative to boot, Egyptian style, so let throw in a seated lady at the back, both knees up, with a tight dress and long hair just like hers. If that too hard for you to draw, just draw an egg it very Egyptian!

Russman, Edna R. 2001. Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum. Berkeley: University of California Press in association with the American Federation of Arts, p. 218.

Gardiner, Sir Alan. 1927, 1976. Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs (3rd Ed.). Oxford: Griffith Institute.

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