Representing an alabaster bowl used in purifications.
(ḥꜣb)
- Determinative for alabaster, as in šs (“alabaster”).
- Logogram for ḥꜣb (“feast”).
- Phonogram for ḥꜣb, as in ḥꜣbj (“to mourn”).
- Determinative for feast, as in psḏntjw (“new-moon festival”), wꜣg (“wag-festival”).
- Gardiner, Alan (1957) Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 527
- Henry George Fischer (1988) Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 50
