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The ancient Egyptian hill-country hieroglyph is a member of the sky, earth, and water hieroglyphs. A form of the hieroglyph in color, has a ''green line''-(banding) at the base of the hieroglyph. The hieroglyph refers to the hills, and mountains, on both sides of the Nile River, and thus the green references the verdant black farming land adjacent to the river proper. Various colors, and patterning,〔Betrò, pg 158〕 may adorn the rest of the hieroglyph when the bottom is green. ==Three major uses== The ancient language hilly land hieroglyph has three major uses: :1 – hill country, or hills :2 – a reference to arid, ''desert land'' :3 – Determinative, for foreign lands The language meaning of the hieroglyph is as an idiogram or a determinative in the word ''khast'' (khaset), and is often translated as hilly land, desert, foreign land, or district.〔Budge, An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary, "kh", 'khast', pg 533b〕〔Betrò, ''"Hilly Terrain"'', pg 158〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hill-country (hieroglyph)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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