G16

𓅒

Unicode: U+13152 𓅒
Reading: nb.ty
Use: Logogram (the two ladies (i.e. Nekhbet and Wadjet)
Group: G – Birds
Sign list: Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar

Description

A griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus), on top of a wickerwork basket (V30), in front of a cobra (Naja haje), standing up, with expanded hood (uraeus), with a coiled tail (I12), upon a wickerwork basket (V30).

Examples

G16 on an Egyptian monument — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 57.95, photo: The Met, Open Access (CC0)

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Sign drawings: NewGardiner font by Mark-Jan Nederhof (SIL Open Font License 1.1); signs missing there: © Serge Rosmorduc (from JSesh; LGPL / CeCILL, see notice). Transliteration font: Charis SIL (SIL Open Font License 1.1). Photos: Alexander Sulimov, unless stated otherwise. Descriptions: Unicode Egyptian hieroglyph data (Unikemet).