Learn Hieroglyphs

Introduction The Hieroglyphic writing Numbers Nouns Grammatical uses of the noun Adjectives and Comparison Demonstratives Personal Pronouns Titles in Ancient Egypt The Offering Formula Infinitive Possessive Adjectives Verbs in Ancient Egyptian language Relative in Ancient Egyptian Language Attribution Adjectives Comparative and Superlative Fractions Measures Interrogative pronouns Enclitic particles Non-Enclitic particles Prepositions Anticipation in the Ancient Egyptian Language Stative (Old Perfective) Active participles Passive participle The Passive Voice Verbal Sentence in Ancient Egyptian language Non-verbal Sentence in Ancient Egyptian language

Dating Form

Egyptians dated their inscriptions according to the years of their kings’ reigns; throughout the Pharaonic history no use was ever made of continuous era. This dating form was made out of the following words that were followed by the name of the king and his title.

Ruling year

rnpt-sp

Under (in the reign of)

xr

His Majesty

Hm

of

n

Example

rnpt-sp 28 xr Hm n nsw-bity (n)-mAat-ra anx Dt

The Year 28 under his Majesty, King of Upper and Lower Egypt, ny mAat ra (Amenemhat III) May he live forever.


 

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