THE ANCETOR OF S
The theme for the rest of this month is the letter S
This is from the #Egyptian #Hieratic #script and it is one of the ancestors if not the ancestor or prototype or source of our modern letter S. Looking over Egyptian hieroglyphs and their hieratic forms I can see several candidates for S, all signs representing words that start with s or sh.
But how can this have become S?
Somehow over the centuries as the first Alphabets developed the letter forms altered rotating sideways and becoming less angular.
More on this next time.
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