Sun (hieroglyph)
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The Ancient Egypt
ian Sun hieroglyph is Gardiner
sign listed no. N5 for the sun-disc; it is also one of the hieroglyphs that refers to the god Ra
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hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs has 7 varieties for the syllable of 's' and 'a'. For 'sa' number 4 the same hieroglyph in both Eyptian and Luwian languages exist; it is Sa-sub4 (Luwian hieroglyph)
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...
ian Sun hieroglyph is Gardiner
Gardiner's Sign List
Gardiner's Sign List is a list of common Egyptian hieroglyphs compiled by Sir Alan Gardiner. It is considered a standard reference in the study of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs....
sign listed no. N5 for the sun-disc; it is also one of the hieroglyphs that refers to the god Ra
Ra
Ra is the ancient Egyptian sun god. By the Fifth Dynasty he had become a major deity in ancient Egyptian religion, identified primarily with the mid-day sun...
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Luwian hieroglyhs, Sa-sub4
The Luwian languageLuwian language
Luwian is an extinct language of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European language family. Luwian is closely related to Hittite, and was among the languages spoken during the second and first millennia BC by population groups in central and western Anatolia and northern Syria...
hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs has 7 varieties for the syllable of 's' and 'a'. For 'sa' number 4 the same hieroglyph in both Eyptian and Luwian languages exist; it is Sa-sub4 (Luwian hieroglyph)
Sa-sub4 (Luwian hieroglyph)
Sa4 is the 4th of 7 hieroglyphs for Sa in the Luwian language. They are Sa, Sá, Sà, Sa4, Sa5, Sa6, and Sa7.-Sa4, a glyph similar to Egypt's "sun":N5...
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