Basket (hieroglyph)

Basket nb in hieroglyphs

The Ancient Egyptian Basket hieroglyph is Gardiner sign listed no. V30 for a semicircular-shaped, shallow basket. It is an Egyptian language biliteral for nb.^[1] The Egyptian uniliteral k, a basket-with-handle, Gardiner no. V31, , is constructed from the basket hieroglyph.

Basket hieroglyph: list of uses

List of epithet uses

Butterfly braces-(w/pharaonic names).
(Lord of Coronations)

*Lord of the Two Lands,

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*Lord of Coronations,

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*Lady of the House, , Nephthys.

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*Lord of Heaven
(Lord of (the) Sky), nb pt

Pharaonic uses

Lunette iconography, 3 uses of basket: center two columns, as Lord of Heaven, left for god Amun, Lord of the Two Lands, and 3rd use on right.

The pharaoh is often shown in reliefs or in cartouche-related statements as Lord of the Two Lands. The basket hieroglyph is used as 'lord', or 'king'. Queens, or goddesses use the 'lordess' form, the feminine implied from the "t" hieroglyph but not needed for the basket. The basket is used for either.

Rosetta Stone use

A distinctive use of the basket hieroglyph, for nb is in the composition block for the word "everything". One common portrayal is with sieve, 't', basket, , for "everything", or "all things".^[2] The Rosetta Stone also uses just the basket, , for "every", "all", "everything", as well as multiple uses for just the word "lord".

Gallery: Lord of the Two Lands-(Neb Taui)

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  'Lord of the Two Lands'

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  Gold ring:
  Pharaoh-'Wonderful', Lord of the Two Lands, etc. (from right-to-center column)

Gallery: (basket lines, squares)

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  Lines in wicker basket

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  Pharaoh Sahure relief

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  Pectoral with lined basket inlays-(blue-red-white-blue)
  Pin with ankh and Sa hieroglyphs on basket-(blue-green-red-blue)

See also

• Gardiner's Sign List#V. Rope, Fiber, Baskets, Bags, etc.
• Basket-with-handle (hieroglyph)

References

1. Wilkinson, 1992. Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture, "Basket", nebet, V30, p. 198-199.
2. Budge, 1989, (1929), The Rosetta Stone, p. 152.

• Wilkinson, 1992. Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture, Richard H. Wilkinson, c 1992, 1994, Section: Seth Animal, p. 66-67. Thames and Hudson; abbreviated Index, 224 pp. (softcover, ISBN 0-500-27751-6)
• Budge. The Rosetta Stone, E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1929, Dover edition(unabridged), 1989. (softcover, ISBN 0-486-26163-8)