Hand-with-droplets (hieroglyph)

D46A
Hand-with-
'dew'-drops
( unguent/ or water )
in hieroglyphs

The ancient Egyptian Hand-with-droplets hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. D46A is a portrayal of the hand, with droplet offerings. In the Old Kingdom usage it is found on ivory labels and slab stelas, presumably with the use of 'aroma' and unguents, or with incense. As the verb usage with 'libation', water or liquids are involved.

Ivory label of Pharaoh Semerkhet, Old Kingdom.

Usage

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The hand-with-droplets hierogoglyph is used as a determinative for water libations, or the aroma droplets, (or incense) related to unguents. The Egyptian language usage of the noun, as "incense" or an "incense offering", is id, or id.t, represented as:

M17D46A
X1
 
M17D46
X1
T12

The second spelling uses the bowstring hieroglyph as a determinative, presumably for its 'strength', and the 'power of unguent aromas'-(i.e. perfumes). The Egyptian language verb form, "to cense, to pour out a libation",[1] spelled as id, idy, has three hieroglyph spellings in the Budge two-volume dictionary.

M17D46AM17M17
 
M17D46A
 
D46
N38
(hand withpool)

The third uses the pool-lake-basin hieroglyph as determinative. A third noun usage is for the word "dew", Egyptian language id. The single form has many spellings with the determinative usage-(or with alternate determinants), and a plural form in hieroglyphs as:

M17D46A
D46A
D46A
X1

Single forms for "dew" also use the Sky-with-rain (hieroglyph) as the determinative, with multiple spellings.

M17D46G43N4Z3

The noun "dew" is based on the Coptic language eiote (five entries), and translated as: dew, mist, vapour, rain-storm, moisture, and exudation, listed under Egyptian language, iad,[2] with some spellings of:

N4(rain)
 
M17G1D46
X1
D46A
N35
N35
N35
(one exampleofseven)
Preceded by
V15

tether-with-
walking-legs
-- --
i(th)
D46A

hand-with-
droplets
-- --
id, idy
Succeeded by
D18
W24

vicar
wakil
-- --
idnu
(idn)
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See also

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References

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  1. ^ E.A.Wallace Budge, 1978, (1920), An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, section "i",
    M17
    pg. 101b.
  2. ^ Budge, 1978, (1920), section "i", iad, pg. 27a, Coptic listing, "eiote", pg. 1288.
  • Budge. 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)