Representing a male head wearing a wig, in profile, typically bearded. The style of the wig varies by time period; the earlier style, from the Old Kingdom, is longer. Sometimes there is no beard. The skin is conventionally colored red; the hair is black; in detailed examples, the sclera is white and the eye and other facial features are outlined in black.
(tp)- Biliteralphonogram fortp.
- Logogram fortp(“head”).
- Logogram forḏꜣḏꜣ(“head”).
- Determinative for a number of words relating to the head or actions implying movement of the head.
- Determinative ingwꜣ(“to pull together”).
The reading of this sign (and the wordtp(“head”) and its derivatives) has recently been contested. Werning and others have suggested that the traditional reading oftp is wrong, with the New Kingdom reading more likely beingdp, and the original reading conceivably eitherdp orḏp. However, other Egyptologists argue for the traditional reading, and indeed the bulk of the current evidence seems to point to the traditional value.[1][2][3][4][5]
- Gardiner, Alan (1957),Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs, third edition, Oxford: Griffith Institute,→ISBN,pages449–450
- Henry George Fischer (1988),Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy: A Beginner’s Guide to Writing Hieroglyphs, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art,→ISBN
- Betrò, Maria Carmela (1995),Geroglifici: 580 Segni per Capire l'Antico Egitto, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A.,→ISBN
- David Nunn,A Palaeography of Polychrome Hieroglyphs (Université Libre de Bruxelles - Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences sociales, 2020)
- ^Werning, Daniel A. (2004) “The Sound Values of the Signs Gardiner D1 (Head) and T8 (Dagger)” inLingua Aegyptia, volume 12, pages 183–204
- ^Peust, Carsten (2006) “Nochmals zur Lesung der Kopf-Hieroglyphe” inGöttinger Miszellen, volume 208, pages 7–8
- ^Schweitzer, Simon D. (2011) “Zum Lautwert einiger Hieroglyphen” inZeitschrift für Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, volume 138, pages 132–149
- ^Werning, Daniel A. (2015)Einführung in die hieroglyphisch-ägyptische Schrift und Sprache, pages 34–35:
- “Die Einwände von (Schweitzer 2011) gegen die Lesungdp sind nicht stichhaltig (was an anderer Stelle zu zeigen ist). Neben den unzweifelhaften Schreibungen von ‘Kopf’ als im Amduat (Werning 2004: 196) ist noch folgender, kursivhieroglyphisch geschriebener Beleg hinzuzufügen: ‘Der ein „sakrales“ Haupt hat’ (Papyrus BM 9971).”
- ^Roberson, Joshua Aaron (2018) “Tête-à-tête: Some Observations and Counter-Arguments Regarding a Contentious Phonological Value,dp ortp” inLingua Aegyptia, volume 26, pages 185–202
