D12
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Traditionally considered to represent a piece of the Eye of Horus or wแธ๊ฃt (literally โIntact Oneโ) D10 (๐), and specifically the pupil of the eye. In Egyptian mythology, the eye was torn out and dismembered by Set, and subsequently pieced back together and restored by Thoth. The series of Egyptian fractional measures of grain would then be either directly based on the pieces of the eye or would have eventually come to be interpreted as such. In fact, however, while the hieroglyphic signs certainly represent pieces of the eye, their usage as measures is uncertain, as the evidence mainly comes from votive cubits whose texts are extremely difficult to interpret; meanwhile, the hieratic forms of the signs are well attested as measures, but their earlier forms do not closely resemble pieces of the eye. The equivalence of the hieratic and hieroglyphic signs has thus become questionable, and the direct origin of the measures as pieces of the eye is not likely, although their later reinterpretation as such is possible.
Used as a numeral for ยนโโ in (mostly hieratic) measures of grain.
Has a specialized or contextual function
Determinative in แธfแธ (โpupil (of the eye)โ).
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Classifier pupil
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
The pupil of an eye.
Has a specialized or contextual function
Logogram: 1/4 โ 1/4 heqat
Represents a complete word or concept
Determinative: DfD โ pupil of eye
Clarifies the meaning of other signs
Attested Examplesfrom the TLA corpus
๐ค๐ช๐๐
nfr-qd-m๊ฃ๊ฅ.t
Nefer-qed-Maat
๐๐๐ ๐ด๐ช๐ง๐๐๐
แธซnt.๊ฝ-ลก n.๊ฝ-sw-qd
Der Chentischi (Pรคchter ?) Ni-su-qed.
๐ ๐๐ ๐ธ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐๐ก
ลกs๊ฃ.w m๊ฃ๊ฃ ๊ฝแธฅ แบr nf.t
(รberschrift:) Erfahrungswissen zur (visuellen) Betrachtung (wรถrtl.: des Betrachtens) eines (mรคnnlichen) Rindes mit der $nf.t$-Hauch/Luft/Wind-Krankheit.
Source: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae corpus (CC BY-SA 4.0) โ translations in German.
Quick Info
- Gardiner Code
- D12
- Unicode
- U+13082
- Category
- D
- Meanings
- 6
- Transliterations
- 7
- Source
- both
- Text examples
- 3
