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Public and funerary inscriptions in ancient Egypt were usually written in hieroglyphs, a system of writing with each picture or symbol representing a distinct syllable or group of sounds and syllables. Ti-Ameny-Net\u2019s coffin features a section of hieroglyphs translated as:<\/p>\n

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Words spoken by Imsety: Hail Osiris, Ti-Ameny-Net, <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 true of voice, possessor of blessedness in the presence<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 of the great god, Lord of Heaven, the Chief of the gods.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 May he give every sort of offering, every sort of provision, <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 wine, milk, everything which is good and pure, <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 everything which is pleasing<\/em>. –Translation by David Howell, 1999<\/p>\n

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\"\"The first hieroglyph of Ti-Ameny-Net\u2019s name is a bird with an open beak, which stands for the sound \u201cpa.\u201d The linear symbols which follow include a human arm holding a cone of incense, \u201cTi\u201d;\u00a0 the hieroglyphic name of the god Amun; the figure of a man eating; and a circular symbol that resembles a city plan for the sign \u201cNewit,\u201d or town.<\/p>\n

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Up next: Funerary Iconography<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public and funerary inscriptions in ancient Egypt were usually written in hieroglyphs, a system of writing with each picture or symbol representing a distinct syllable or group of sounds and syllables. Ti-Ameny-Net\u2019s coffin features a section of hieroglyphs translated as:   Words spoken by Imsety: Hail Osiris, Ti-Ameny-Net, \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 true of voice, possessor of blessedness […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5468,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[207586],"class_list":["post-776","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urancient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urancient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urancient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urancient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urancient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urancient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urancient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/776\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urancient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/urancient\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}