Exercises for Lesson 3

Question 1. Write the following combinations of letters (which are actual Egyptian words) in the standard uniliteral hieroglyphs. (The answers will show you the suggested way for those glyphs to be stacked into quadrats, but go ahead and keep each word separate from its neighbors.)

Pay careful attention to the diacritical marks, especially on the various forms of “H”.

Question 2: Translate the following phrases into Egyptian, in both hieroglyphs and transliteration.

1. Towards the place.
2. For the sky.
3. Together with the thing.
4. In the name.
5. Towards there.
6. Together with Ptah.
7. By means of boat.
8. The sun, together with the name.

Question 3: Transliterate, but do not attempt to translate, the following combinations of glyphs.

1. 𓋔𓏲𓐰𓏏
2. 𓋴𓐛𓐰𓏲
3. 𓎤𓐰𓂋𓎛
4. 𓏲𓐰𓐛𓋔

Question 4: Give yourself a little practice learning the alphabetical order. Do not stress about this. You can and should proceed with the lessons before you perfect this. The more comfortable you get with just seeing the sounds written, the easier it will be for you to memorize them.

Furthermore, you can make a cheat sheet for yourself, an index card or something, and put it somewhere convenient when you’re looking up things in a hieroglyphic dictionary.

Here is a list of all the sounds in the alphabet, in a scrambled order. Your exercise, as you learn it and feel ready for it, is to see if you can put them in the correct order instead. Feel free to move on to the next lesson before you’ve perfected this. Just give it a go now and then, correcting yourself. It will come.

The scrambled alphabet is as follows. Feel free to press the button below it to rescramble it for practice.