Hare (hieroglyph)

Hare in hieroglyphs

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Hare hieroglyph in text (reading left-to-right).

The ancient Egyptian Hare hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. E34 is a portrayal of the desert hare of Egypt, within the Gardiner signs for mammals. The ancients used the name of sekhat for the hare.

It is an Egyptian language biliteral with the value wn, (or un), often used in a hieroglyph composition block with the horizontal n. , or

The biliteral expresses the sound "oon", or "oonen",; it is also an ideogram for the verb "to be", or "to exist", (i.e. "is", "are", "was", etc.).

The famous Pharaoh Unas, (for his Pyramid texts), is named using the hare hieroglyph.

Preceded by sun-with-rays - "uben"-phon.-etc. (complex, many word uses)	hare -- un	Succeeded by unem (right = "west") Emblem of the West (hieroglyph)
Succeeded by , swallow-(bil.)--animal leg-(tril.) ---- ur ---- ---- uhm ----

See also

• Gardiner's Sign List#E. Mammals
• Pharaoh Unas - (titulary)

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  Relief

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  Detail of Hare and water-ripple quadrat (hieroglyph block)

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  Vertical text, hare hieroglyph at beginning

• Stele of Amenhotep I.jpg

  Partially missing lunette of a stela; Finely executed in shallow, incised-bas relief

References

• Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998. Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook, Ruth Schumann-Antelme, and Stéphane Rossini. c 1998, English trans. 2002, Sterling Publishing Co. (Index, Summary lists (tables), selected uniliterals, biliterals, and triliterals.) (softcover, ISBN 1-4027-0025-3)