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The ancient Egyptian Scribe equipment hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. Y3, (or reversed, Y4), portrays the equipment of the scribe. 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: :tube case – for holding writing-reeds :leather bag – for holding colored inks (the canonical colors, black and red, mixed with water and gum)〔Betrò, 1995. ''Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Scribe's Palette, p. 238.〕 :wood ''scribal palette'' – with mixing pools; (not always made from wood) ==Language usage== The scribe equipment hieroglyph is often used as a determinative for items relating to writing or the scribe. Combined with the determinative for person, the hieroglyph is read as ''zẖw, ''probably pronounced ()〔Loprieno (1995) p. 58〕 or ()〔Allen (2013) p. 53〕 in Old Egyptian, and () or () following the changes in pronunciation of ''z'' in Middle Egyptian and of in Late Egyptian. By the Coptic stage of the language, this had lost its glottal stop and ending, reducing to File:CopteAmin.png () (pl. File:CopteImin.png ()).〔Bohairic-English Dictionary http://www.suscopts.org/deacons/coptic/coptdict.pdf〕 Often the transliteration "sesh" appears, derived from the mistaken reading ''sš'' 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 ''š'', leading to the misunderstanding. However, Old Kingdom Egyptian lacked a distinct sign for the ''ẖ'' sound and the Coptic descendant shows that the original second consonant was indeed the palatalized fricative ''ẖ'' not the (alveolo-)palatal sibilant ''š''.〔Egyptologist James Allen on AEgyptian-L http://www.rostau.org.uk/aegyptian-l/archives/week608.txt〕 When used as the verb ''zẖ'', the hieroglyph has a variety of related meanings: to write, to draw, to make a design, to do into writing. As the noun ''zẖ'', it means:〔Budge, p. 619.〕 writing, inscription, written roll of papyrus, book, copy of a document, & handwriting. In plural usage: writings, letters, books, documents, archives, decrees, handwriting, the columns of a book, papers, title-deeds, registers, and literature.〔Budge, pp. 1067-1255.〕 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「Scribe equipment (hieroglyph)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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