Foot (hieroglyph)

Foot in hieroglyphs

The Ancient Egyptian Foot hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. D58 is a side view of the human foot and the lower leg.

The foot hieroglyph is used in the Ancient Egyptian language hieroglyphs for the alphabetic consonant letter b.^[1]

Libation hieroglyph with foot and pot

"Libations" "libations w/vessel upon Foot" in hieroglyphs

One of the libation group of hieroglyphs uses the foot, surmounted with a vessel, issuing forth a libation.

The Egyptian hieroglyph alphabetic letters

The following two tables show the Egyptian uniliteral signs. (24 letters, but multiple use hieroglyphs)

a	i	y	'	(w,u)	B
P	F	M	N	R	H1
H2	Kh1	Kh2	S	(Sh)=Š	Q/K2
K	G	T	Ch—Tj	D	Dj
L/(R) (special) (Ptolemaic, etc.)	M	N	S	M3-Baker's tool ignore this cell, proceed to the next one	M (3rd-M -2nd-vert) M3-Baker's tool (vertical)
(additionally 3 for equivalents)	--	--	--	--	--
(2 reeds) is— (2 strokes) y2-Two strokes	(quail) is— (coil) letter w, u (see w2-Coil)		T (no. 2) T2-Pestle

• 
  Relief
  (also shows 3rd "m"
  vertical Baker's tool (hieroglyph)
  (mostly used as preposition))
• 
  External wall relief; (foot and leg hieroglyphs)
• 
  Column relief

See also

• Gardiner's Sign List#D. Parts of the Human Body

References

1. Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998. Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook, uniliteral: U3, p. 22-23.

• Schumann-Antelme, and Rossini, 1998. Illustrated Hieroglyphics Handbook, Ruth Schumann-Antelme, and Stéphane Rossini. c 1998, English trans. 2002, Sterling Publishing Co. (Index, Summary lists (tables), selected uniliterals, biliterals, and triliterals.) (softcover, ISBN 1-4027-0025-3)