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Hieroglyph

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Egyptian sacred carved writing as a named script-kind. Not every ideogram, and not a tourist ‘picture writing’ dump.

Egyptian religion

  • Hieroglyph appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus describes Egyptian sacred carved characters among the writing kinds of Egypt. A named Egyptian hieroglyph speech in that ethnography, not every ideogram and not cartouche as the oval name-ring alone.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

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