Egyptian hieroglyphs

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ancient Egyptian script logoconsonantal script writing system

Egyptian hieroglyphs are the formal, pictorial writing system of ancient Egypt, used for monumental inscriptions, religious texts, and administrative records over several millennia.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Egyptian hieroglyphs canonical	59
Egyptian Hieroglyphs	2
Egyptian Hieroglyphs (underlying language, not directly encoded as Demotic)	1
Egyptian Hieroglyphs block	1

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient Egyptian script ⓘ logoconsonantal script ⓘ writing system ⓘ
componentType	biliteral signs ⓘ determinatives ⓘ logograms ⓘ triliteral signs ⓘ uniliteral signs ⓘ
culturalRole	religious symbolism ⓘ royal ideology expression ⓘ sacred writing ⓘ
decipheredBy	Jean-François Champollion ⓘ
deciphermentAid	Rosetta Stone ⓘ
deciphermentDate	1822 ⓘ
earliestAttestation	Naqada III period ⓘ c. 3200 BCE ⓘ
finalPhase	4th century CE ⓘ Roman period Egypt ⓘ
influenced	Greek alphabet ⓘ Phoenician alphabet ⓘ Proto-Canaanite script ⓘ surface form: Proto-Sinaitic script
languageWritten	Egyptian language ⓘ Late Egyptian ⓘ Middle Egyptian ⓘ Ancient Egyptian ⓘ surface form: Old Egyptian
numberOfSigns	over 1000 signs in later periods ⓘ over 700 signs in classical period ⓘ
relatedScript	Demotic ⓘ Hieratic ⓘ
scriptType	abjad-like ⓘ alphabetic ⓘ logographic ⓘ pictographic ⓘ
standardReference	Gardiner's sign list ⓘ
timePeriod	late 4th millennium BCE ⓘ until 4th century CE ⓘ
unicodeBlock	Egyptian hieroglyphs self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Egyptian Hieroglyphs
unicodeRange	U+13000–U+1342F ⓘ
usedFor	administrative records ⓘ funerary texts ⓘ monumental inscriptions ⓘ religious texts ⓘ royal inscriptions ⓘ temple inscriptions ⓘ tomb inscriptions ⓘ
usedIn	Pharaonic Egypt ⓘ surface form: Ancient Egypt
writingDirection	left-to-right ⓘ right-to-left ⓘ top-to-bottom ⓘ
writingMedium	metal ⓘ ostraca ⓘ papyrus ⓘ stone ⓘ wood ⓘ

Referenced by (63)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Old Kingdom of Egypt → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Pharaonic Egypt → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Ptolemaic Kingdom → usedScript → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Fourth Dynasty of Egypt → usedWritingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Narmer → writingSystemUsed → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Temple of Ellesyia → hasWritingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Egyptians → writingSystemHistorical → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Ta-Mehu → hasWritingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Early Dynastic Egypt → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Late Period of Egypt → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Proto-Canaanite script → derivedFrom → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Proto-Canaanite script → developedFrom → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

New Kingdom of Egypt → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Djoser → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Egyptian hieroglyphs → unicodeBlock → Egyptian hieroglyphs self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Fifth Dynasty of Egypt → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Thutmose IV → scriptUsed → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Kushite period → hasWritingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Coffin Texts → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

ankh → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Busiris → writingSystemUsed → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Ancient Egyptian → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Pi-Ramesses → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Waset → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Demotic script → helpedDecipher → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Demotic script → UnicodeBlock → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Egyptian Hieroglyphs (underlying language, not directly encoded as Demotic)

3rd Dynasty of Egypt → usesWritingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Supplementary Multilingual Plane → contains → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Egyptian Hieroglyphs block

Ramesseum → hasWritingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Old Persian cuneiform → coOccurringScripts → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Saite political renaissance → hasWritingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Ta-Shema → writingSystemOfName → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Necho II → usedScript → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Pyramid of Teti → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Meroitic script → derivedFrom → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

S3 (Gardiner sign list) → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

S3 (Gardiner sign list) → hasUnicodeBlock → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Second Dynasty of Egypt → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Shabaka → languageOfInscriptions → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Meresankh III → languageOfInscriptions → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

20th Dynasty of Egypt → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Nebmaatre (attributed in some sources) → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Late Egyptian → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Cretan hieroglyphs → distinctFrom → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Middle Egyptian → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Gardiner's sign list → subject → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Eighth Dynasty of Egypt → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Tenth Dynasty of Egypt → writingSystem → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Harkhuf → inscriptionLanguage → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ

Sekhemkhet → languageOfInscriptions → Egyptian hieroglyphs ⓘ