List of portraiture offerings with Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

This is a list of portraiture offerings with Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs.

The two major uses of Egyptian language hieroglyph offerings are the wall reliefs, and statuary; minor uses might be thought of as minor statues, charms, or amulets. Many of the sphinx statues are shown with an offering vessel.

List of common offering vessels

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The common nu pot is the iconography where all offering pots are based. A simple one based on it is the incense censor pot, with a flame of smoke, .

Many other types of offerings, represented by Egyptian language hieroglyphs are made, by the pharaoh himself/herself in portraiture, or by the gods that are portrayed with offerings.

Incense pot

Items from the Gardiner's Sign List of Temple Furniture and Sacred Emblems, (section R).

• Censer pot, with vapors-.
• Censer arm-.
• Offering of an altar-.

Liquid vessels

Liquid vessels.

• Vessel with liquid stream-.
• Common nu vessel-.

Other miscellaneous offerings

• Bread-

  (bread (Gardiner no x3))

  . (see here: [1])
• Bread-cone-

  (verb (TO GIVE (GIVEN)))

  . (see here: [2], [3])
• Field of Dreams-

  (field of reeds)

  .
• Joint of meat-. (see here: [4]
• Life symbol: Ankh-

  (life (s34))

  . (see here: [5]
• Ointment jar-(Alabastron)-

  (or) (jar alabastron)

  . (see here: [6]
• Recumbent sphinx, lion-

  (sphinx)

  . (see here: [7])
• Ripple of Water-

  (ripple of water)

  . (see here: [8])

Gallery of statuary with offering vessels

Monumental type

• 

  6th Dynasty, 24th-23rd century BC

• 

  19th century BC

Minor-sized statuary

• 

  Pharaoh Taharqa and Horus-Falcon, 25th Dynasty, 7th century BC

See also

• List of Egyptian hieroglyphs by common name: A-L
• List of Egyptian hieroglyphs by common name: M-Z
• List of Egyptian hieroglyphs by alphabetization

This page was last edited on 2 February 2023, at 04:51