page_title: Throw stick (hieroglyph)
section_title: Rosetta Stone usage
hierarchical_section_title: Throw stick (hieroglyph) / Linguistic use of 'throw stick' / Rosetta Stone usage
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Jagd im Papyrusdickicht; Ausschnitt aus einer Wandmalerei im Grab des Nabamun in Theben-West, heute im British Museum, Tempera auf Putz, Höhe 81cm, 18. Dynastie, vor 1350 v. Chr.
context_page_description: The Throw stick hieroglyph of ancient Egypt is an old hieroglyph that dates from the Predynastic Period; it is from the assemblage of hieroglyphs used on the ornamental, or ceremonial cosmetic palettes. It is used on the palettes both as a throwing-stick weapon in the animal hunt being portrayed-, as well as on certain palettes, as a determinative referring to a "foreigner", or "foreign territory".
  Ancient Libya, just northwestwards from Lower Egypt, and the Libyans were thought to be the first land portrayed, as well as the savannah-desert land hunters.
  The original predynastic throwing-stick was a launched club as seen on archaeological palettes, a predynastic stick from Gebelein-, 35 inches long, and 11 ounces, is at the Turin Museum.
context_section_description: Three uses of the "composite bird-hieroglyph" occur in the Rosetta Stone; in line R-5-(twice) it refers to the ancestry of Pharaoh Ptolemy V Epiphanes, and presumably his appearing-(epiphanous title) ("Epiphanous Euchaistos"); this is his 'alighting' presumably. The line actually talks of his genetic lineage: "....and the [deeds] of the two gods-lovers of Fathers (Philopatores) who begot him, and of the two Well-doing-(Good Deeds) gods (Euergetai) who caused to exist-(1st hieroglyph), [those who] created-(2nd hieroglyph) him, ...."
  Elsewhere, for the "Throw-stick hieroglyph", when fashioning a statue by the priests, (lines R7, 9) the use of throw stick determinative: ...."and shall be placed on the side upper of the rectangle, which is on the outside of crowns this, opposite-(2 stick determinatives), to double crown this....". The word seems to refer to the fact that the throw stick can return-(boomerang), and thus the word opposite.
caption: Colorful, vibrant marsh hunting scene, with spouse and family.
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