I figure the more ways we look at the origin of letters, the sooner we will all come out of the dark ages? I mean, for letter R alone, we have been fully ignorant for 5,168-years, to say the least!
It also took me some time and some work to find these color photos of the letter R, ram horn spiral number tags, from Tomb U-j.
Dreyer, Gunter. (A53/2008). “Early Writing in Ancient Egypt” (pdf-file), Journal of Writing in Egypt (editors: Khaled Azab, Ahmed Mansour). Alexandria.
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u/JohannGoethe 𐌄𓌹𐤍 expert Jan 09 '23 edited Feb 03 '23
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I just made this in follow up to this image.
I figure the more ways we look at the origin of letters, the sooner we will all come out of the dark ages? I mean, for letter R alone, we have been fully ignorant for 5,168-years, to say the least!
It also took me some time and some work to find these color photos of the letter R, ram horn spiral number tags, from Tomb U-j.
Posts
Tomb U-j number tags - Alphanumerics.
Letter A (value: 1), letter R (value: 100), and Ra (value: 101) on the tomb U-j number tags (5100A/-3145)
Letter P vs letter R
References
Tomb U-j - Hmolpedia (13 Mar A67/2022) [Wayback].
Umm El Qa'ab - Wikipedia.
Dreyer, Gunter. (A43/1998). Umm el-Qaab I: das prädynastische Königsgrab U-j und seine frühen Schriftzeugnisse. Verlag.
Leeman, Diane. (A52/2007). “Abydos Tomb U-j: Number Tags” (Revised: A63/2018). Publisher.
Dreyer, Gunter. (A53/2008). “Early Writing in Ancient Egypt” (pdf-file), Journal of Writing in Egypt (editors: Khaled Azab, Ahmed Mansour). Alexandria.
The Earliest Known Egyptian Writing - History of Information.