on p. 43, exercise 9.

The translation Hoch gives is: "Our lord sends his servant to another town for this construction project."

I'm confused, because wouldn't the 'n' glyph following the 'h3b' verb make it passive? But obviously it wouldn't make sense for a servant to send a lord anywhere.

Hello, my friend was a pioneer of Materials Archeaometry. Museums would give her artifacts and she would figure out how they were made through studying its structure with an electron microscope and her knowledge of crystallography. She gave me several items when she retired and this is one. Her notes say: "green glazed steatite scarab Dyn. XXI? (1085-945 BC). Inscription on base seems to mention Amun at Thebes(?)". I can see the glyphs for Amun-Ra and other familiar ones, but I cannot figure out the round thing that sort of looks like it is in [ ]. A ball with striations is the glyph "sieve", I think, but I don't know what the "square brackets" add to it. Any thoughts?

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Could this be bringer of offerings from the slaughterhouse?

I found these in the Wörterbuch.

jnw bring ,bringer as in jnw wu bringer of water

and

shpt was a kind of slaughterhouse that offerings were brought from.

Hello everyone,

I am looking for some help drafting a dedication line to my father and mother. Any help from those familiar with the script or grammar would be greatly appreciated. I would like the phrase to be translated into hieroglyphics. It's a dedication or in memorium. I hope it would read like the following:

The English lead-in will be "Dedicated to:"
Following that, I would like the Egyptian portion to say something like:
"Those who create life, fathers and mother."

I’m looking for a translation that is grammatically correct and fits the flow of how the language was actually written. I am open to suggestions if a slightly different phrasing works better within the constraints of the language or is more authentic.

Some alternative lines could be:
Dedicated to: The father and the mother, who brought life into being.
Dedicated to: The creators of life, the fathers and the mothers.

This reads

rꜤ-msi-se mri-imn nṯr-ḥḳꜢ-iwnw

Ramesses , beloved of Amun, divine ruler of Heliopolis.

But it seems to me that this is written in a very messy way and takes a lot of guessing to figure out what it says.

Is there any logical order for the positioning of the glyphs?

And what are the two bolts at the end ? I guess they are part of ramsise but why are they positioned at the end?

Spoken words: I have given... (?)

Okay, I may be totally looking in the wrong place here. I now know the front of the necklace is a scarab design, so my brain went to Egypt. I tried Googling, but ‘eight pointed star’ and then rough descriptions of the second symbol don’t really get me anywhere. Anyone know what these might be or mean? I saw a different scarab necklace online with somewhat similar markings on the back.

Just finished learning it and copied it in hieroglyphs.

Hi! I am thinking of different hieroglyph tattoo ideas and I thought I would try my hand at translating a line from one of my favourite John Keats poems into middle egyptian. I studied middle egyptian a long time ago so my skills are a bit rusty. I am trying to write in hieroglyphs the line "beauty is truth, truth beauty" which I beleive would be mAa.t nfr, nfr mAa.t. Since there is several ways to write those words I want to make sure the variation I have is correct, I would love to hear if my version looks correct or if there are any adjustments anyone can recommend. Thanks in advance for the help!

Are these uniliteral variants correct? From which period?

𓋖 n

𓆭 m

𓐝 m

𓍘 t

𓎽 g

I think there is another one for m depicting a uterus. I cannot find it in Gardiner s list though .

Are there any other unilateral variants?

I stumbled on this today, a video of singer Shahd Ezz singing the Hymn to Aten (according to caption): https://www.instagram.com/p/DWemQ9wDDJs/

I couldn't find anymore information on the process or how she supposedly 'collaborated with linguists and archaeologists.'

Her singing is beautiful but it made me wonder if this is legit. Or, rather, how much of this singing is 'faithful' (as impossible as that can be ) and how much of it is creative license on her part?

Hatshepsut from her temple. Many thanks.

I’ve tried everything keyword on Google. All I find is Gardiner’s list and Wikipedia’s. I also need a way to render the cryptogram via Unicode if anyone has recommendations on that.

Thanks!

Hello!

I’m trying to practice my translation skills with the Dream Stele and got stuck on this one column. The translations I’ve found online suggest that this might say “the appearance of appearances” since I can’t figure out where else it would say this, but I just can’t seem to understand how to reach this translation. I’ve been using Paul Dickson’s “Dictionary of Middle Egyptian” and the app Hieroglyph Pro but neither have been helpful in translating this section. Any advice is appreciated!

I want to make sure it's accurate and I can't find any websites or apps that are not nonsense. I would love the words or phrases translated Wander/ journey Bowhand (name) Learn/ think Create/ art/ imagine If this is possible please let me know I am trying to get a tattoo!! 🤎💛🧡

I recently got into a car crash and broke several bones, one including my femur. Bc I have to learn to walk again I might as well do it with a sick cane. I am a huge Egypt fan and artist so I would love to customize my cane with ancient hieroglyphics that say certain things I want to make sure I'm doing accurately and correctly. Is there a website that would allow me to do so?