Sentence examples for hieroglyph from inspiring English sources

First, a hieroglyph could be used in an almost purely pictorial way.

A glass bottle bearing Thutmose's hieroglyph is in the British Museum in London.

The scarab symbolized life perhaps because it pushed a ball of dung that was identified with the sun and was believed to contain the beetle's eggs, or perhaps because its hieroglyph was the same as that for the verb "to become"—and was thought to restore the dead person's heart in the next world.

Although Ranke has been regarded as a positivist who was concerned only with facts, the very intensity of his preoccupation with ascertaining those facts came from his conviction that history was, as he wrote, a "holy hieroglyph".

Second, a hieroglyph might represent or imply another word suggested by the picture.

Thus the Egyptian words for "man" and "be bright," both spelled with the same consonants, hg, could be rendered by the same hieroglyph.

Horapollon made use of a good source, but he himself certainly could not read hieroglyphic writing and began with the false hypothesis of the Greek tradition namely, that hieroglyphs were symbols and allegories, not phonetic signs.

(Her hieroglyph-packed cartouches style her the Horus, Golden Horus, Two Ladies, Son of Re, Lord of the Two Lands, King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Hatshepsut-united-with-Amun).

Arguably the biggest slice of hieroglyph-heavy, Nile-valley hokum since 1994's Stargate, Lionsgate's Gods of Egypt gets the 30-country, US-plus-assorted-eastern-European/south-east-Asian-hinterland rollout typical of this kind of second-grade blockbuster material.

With Adam Pascal (of "Rent") as the hieroglyph-stiff love interest and Sherie Rene Scott, making like a refugee from "Beverly Hills 90210," as Aida's rival.

They might be hieroglyphs, frenzied maenads or black serpents with men's heads and menacing tongues – for stinging, perhaps, for uttering untruths, for screaming fury.