The Ancestor of S?

 

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.

Some Egyptian Sphinxes

I was doing a sequence over on www.metousia.blogspot.com which involved in the first posts comparing Egyptian Syrian and Early Greek art and I thought some of you might find my collection of interest and use.

MW Egyptian Hieroglyph

This is the hieroglyph MW WATER.

MW functioned as both a biliteral, a sign representing two sounds, and as a semantic determiner / classifier placed in a group of signs to indicate the word was expressing a concept involving water and liquids.

This one is a present copyright free for you to download. I may also place it on Deviant Art so visit me there too?