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Date: Apr 13, 2004 - 01:45
Merci yet again Neb for your answers to my questions! Here is the humble product of this lesson!
http://www.villagephotos.com/pubgallery.asp?id_=699334
What I've found most aesthetically pleasing while comparing seems to be the first image, which is the canal version of "beloved of" and the serpent/crouching woman determinatives for Isis. I think I might have "grouped" it inaccurately/awkwardly, though.
As for the Re expression, I couldn't find the conical loaf, the symbol for Re, the milk jug, or the flat tract of land determinative in the Gardiner Font list so I attempted to draw them in a paint program.
This is all self-explanatory, but I'll outline anyway so I can comment on it. The second grouping is with the egg determinative, the third also but with the leaf version of "beloved of." The fourth grouping is also with the leaves and my possibly inaccurate vertical representation of Isis. The canal version of "beloved of" definitely shortens that column in a more flattering way, I think? In this one there is more space around the bread loaf, also. Would there typically be space around it, or would it be squished against the hieroglyphs like in my other groupings?
And the fifth is another grouping I attempted for Isis with Uraeus. It looks more accurate to me, but then again I am a novice, and I don't remember seeing many vertical hieroglyphic groupings with more than two hieroglyphs...I think that in threesomes, two tend to be smaller than the third and stacked together.
Also, I'm not sure if I positioned the columns correctly? I boldly decided that maybe the Re expression should be on the left since the writing is read right-to-left, but please let me know if this is inaccurate.
I'm sure this probably wasn't a common practice, if at all one (???), but I'm wondering if Isis could be written with the crouching woman, serpent, AND egg determinative? I kind of like the meaning of all three determinatives as they embrace significant aspects of her character.
Laaaast inquiry in relation to this topic, I promise! ...Or lets hope so, for the sakes of my wonderful teachers. :-) The Ria/Isis column is always more lengthy than the Re one, and I'm wondering if anything can be done about this, like Ria being in a column BEFORE "beloved of Isis"? Would that corrupt the two's relation to each other as a sentence?
My vulture must be holding an excessive amount of pride, because I notice now that it seems to have somehow enlarged itself... :-D
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