𓆑

Representing a horned viper. The hieratic Treatise on Ophiology provides a description: ‘Its color is similar to that of the quail; it has two horns on its forehead; the head is broad, the neck narrow, and the tail thick.’ The glyph is conventionally colored yellow. The phonogrammatic value of f is derived by the rebus principle from the word for a viper, ft (Demotic fy).

(f)

1. Uniliteral phonogram for f, as in .f and f.
2. Logogram for ft (“horned viper”).
3. Used with unclear signification in the word jt (“father”).

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