The Polychrome Hieroglyph Research Project

Université Libre de Bruxelles - Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales

This page displays a list of all occurrences from a selected Monument. Occurrences with no image can still have a full description. Exemplars are indicated by a solid border. Click on the exemplar image to access the details.

Ka-hay - Saqqara - Dynasty V

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A6 man receiving purification
flesh red, hair black, kilt white, jar black, water blue
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A108* singer, with upturned palm, arm outstretched and with long lock of hair (glyph copied from Smith)
flesh red, hair and beard black, kilt white
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D4 eye
white, black outlines
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D21 mouth
red
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D54 legs walking
red
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E15 recumbent dog
blue
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F39 backbone with spinal cord issuing from it
red
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G1 Egyptian vulture
head white with red markings, wing blue, beak and legs red
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G17 owl
red outline
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G29 jabiru
beak and legs red, head and wing blue, outline red
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G36 swallow or martin (swallow tail)
head and wing blue, white breast, red legs and beak
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G43 quail chick
yellow, red legs and outline, black markings
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I9 horned viper
yellow with red outlines, black horns
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I9 horned viper
yellow with blue collar, black horns
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I9 horned viper
green with black inner lines and black horns
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M16 clump of papyrus
green plants, yellow tips to flowers
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M16 clump of papyrus
green plants, base red, yellow tips to flowers
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M17 flowering reed
green
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M17 flowering reed
yellow, red outline and details
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M23 plant regarded as typical of Upper Egypt (M26?)
green
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N35 ripple of water
black
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N41 well full of water (rippled surface)
blue
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O1 house
blue
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O10 combination of enclosure O6 and falcon G5
enclosure blue, falcon beak and legs green, wing blue, details black
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O21 façade of shrine
yellow, gorge red lines, door black horizontal lines
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Q6 coffin (form variable)
yellow, red outline
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R4 loaf X2 on a reed mat
mat green, bread white, cord yellow
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R8 cloth wound on a pole, emblem of divinity
green pole with black markings, cloth yellow with red lines
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R10 combination of divinity emblem and T28 and N29
nTr-sign pole red, cloth white with red lines. Xr-sign red, hill blue
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R13 falcon G5 on standard R14 with feather (O.K. to XII dyn.)
falcon head and wing blue, beak and feet red. Standard: feather green, cloth red, pole white with blue stripes
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S29 folded cloth
red
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T3 mace with pear-shaped head (vertical)
lower handle green, upper white, head white, red outline
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T20 harpoon (O.K. form)
blue
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U6 hoe
red with green cord
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V31 wickerwork basket with handle
green with black squares
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W17 water-pots in a rack (XII-XVIII dyn.)
red
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W19 milk-jug carried in a net
yellow, red ouline
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X1 bread
blue
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X1 bread
black
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X8 conical loaf (?)
blue
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Y2 papyrus roll (O.K. form of Y1)
blue
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Aa1 kind of sieve? Or maybe a placenta?
yellow with red outline and red lines
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Aa1 kind of sieve? Or maybe a placenta?
green