Scribe equipment (hieroglyph)

The ancient Egyptian Scribe equipment hieroglyph ๐“ž (Gardiner no.

Numerous scribes used the hieroglyph in stating their name, either on papyrus documents, but especially on statuary or tomb reliefs.

The hieroglyph depicts the 3 major components of a scribe's equipment: Often the transliteration "sesh" appears, derived from the mistaken reading sลก propagated in the dictionary and books of E. A. W. Budge.

This reading is found as a phonetic complement using the signs for z and ลก, leading to the misunderstanding.

However, Old Kingdom Egyptian lacked a distinct sign for the แบ– sound and the Coptic descendant shows that the original second consonant was indeed the palatalized fricative แบ– not the (alveolo-)palatal sibilant ลก,[5] (ลก being the pool-lake-basin (hieroglyph) in the Egyptian language).

Seal ring. (Note also, hieroglyphs: bread bun (T) , and jar stand (G) . Starting with 'sedge'-("king"), Column 2-(on right):
"(The) King's Scribe",
Column 1-(left): "Overseer of the Harem, Ah Mose ".
the central figure: "seated man with flail" , is a determinative for "(seated)-Man-noble" .)
(i.e. " Ah- Mes , (The)-Noble Man")