Pick (hieroglyph)

The ancient Egyptian Pick hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed nos.

U17, U18 is a portrayal of a 'pick upon the side view of a block'; it is in the Gardiner subset for agriculture, crafts, and professions.

In the Egyptian language, the pick hieroglyph is used as an ideogram or determinative for grg, the verb "to pick through",[1] or for other related words.

From circa 2392 BC (24th to 23rd century BC), the Palermo Piece-(obverse) of the 7—piece Palermo Stone contains two uses of the pick hieroglyph.

They occur as a pair in Row III[3] (of VI rows) for a "King Year Register" for Pharaoh, King Den.

Pot, with Pick hieroglyph at bottom, middle column (reads from right-to-left, Columns 3-2-1).