April 26, 2024
Ancient Egyptian King of the Gods God Amun
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Your satsfaction is our guarantee! Highest Bidder Wins About US You are bidding on an Extremely Rare and Beautiful Egyptian antiques that we canâe(tm)t guarantee that we can list some one like it again! Ancient Egyptian King of the Gods God Amun Hieroglyphic Cartouche Source Upper Egypt Date 3100 B.C. Material Hard stone. Measurements 7.4 x 3.5 Cm / 1 inch = 2.54 cm. Market Value $2700 - $3000 History Hieroglyphic Cartouche The Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system consists of several hundred picture signs. The signs can be divided into two classes, phonograms and ideograms. Phonograms represent sounds, much as alphabet letters do. Ideograms are signs that represent whole words or concepts. The first hieroglyphs we know about appeared as early as 3100 BC and only the Sumerian language is believed to be older. Hieroglyph also had a variety of definitions of its own they were written in phonographs or ideograms. The Ancient Egyptians used hieroglyphics to make a record of what their view of the universe was. It is believed that the hieroglyphic system of writing was brought to Egypt by invaders who came from the north-east. The word hieroglyphics is made up of two Greek words hieros which means sacred, and glyphe, which means carving. Ancient Egyptian writing used over 2,000 hieroglyphic characters. The hieroglyphics picture
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