Arms-in-embrace (hieroglyph)

The ancient Egyptian Arms-in-embrace hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. D32 is a portrayal of the embracing human arms. The hieroglyph is in the large Gardiner sign list category of Parts of the Human Body.

 
Arms-in-Embrace
Egyptian hieroglyphs
Ring honoring Khufu, (Cheops), Ptolemaic Period.

Multiple types of additional hieroglyphs are inserted between the arms, forming Gardiner unlisted varieties.

Usage

The Egyptian language arms-in-embrace hieroglyph has multiple uses. It is a determinative for 'hugging', inq, "to surround", and ḥpt, "to hug".

As an ideogram it has two meanings for s(kh)n. Both uses are verb uses. 'Sekhen-1', with multiple spellings, and various secondary determinatives,


 
(sḫn),[1] meaning: to fold in the arms, to embrace, to contain, to hold. The second meaning, (sḫn), spellings of,

 
 
is used to mean: to happen, a happening, event, occurrence. (verb or noun).

Rosetta Stone, Egyptian hieroglyph section text
In the 196 BC Rosetta Stone, a "(May there be): Good Forture"-(i.e. "Good Luck") phrase is a segue to the 8 listed rewards given to the honoring of Ptolemy V, one, by erecting his Decree of Memphis (Ptolemy V) in the temple courtyard. The phrase is three-part: ḥ'–s(kh)n–nfr, "And a happening good ! – [may there be]".[2]

 
 
  • Slab stela, multiple use of the "arms-in-embrace" for supplying provisions for the Afterlife
  • Statuary use of the hieroglyph


See also

References

Citations
  1. Budge, 1978, (1920). An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, section S-(no. 1),
    pp. 616-617.
    • Budge, 1989, (1929). The Rosetta Stone, p. 153.

Bibliography
  • Budge, 1978, (1920). An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1978, (c 1920), Dover edition, 1978. (In two volumes, 1314 pp, and cliv-(154) pp.) (softcover, ISBN 0-486-23615-3)
  • Budge, 1989, (1929). The Rosetta Stone, E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1929, Dover edition(unabridged), 1989. (softcover, ISBN 0-486-26163-8)


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