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Gardiner number: | O33 | EGPZ 1.0: | 58028 |
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Representing a façade of a palace or tomb.
- Used to mark the name of a king, initially by being written next to it; since the middle Naqada III period, it was instead attached to a rectangular enclosure that contained the royal name, particularly the Horus name. [Since c. 3400 BCE]
- Logogram for srḫ (“serekh”).
- Determinative in srḫ (“serekh”).
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 496