page_title: Townsite-city-region (hieroglyph)
hierarchical_section_title: Townsite-city-region (hieroglyph)
context_page_description: The Ancient Egyptian Townsite-city-region (hieroglyph) is Gardiner sign listed no. O49 for the intersection of a town's streets. In some Egyptian hieroglyphs books it is called a City Plan.
  It is used in Egyptian hieroglyphs as a determinative in the names of town or city placenames. Also, as an ideogram in the Egyptian word "city", niwt.
  From the photos in WikiCommons, can be seen the variety of styles of the "intersection-form" of the hieroglyph..
context_section_description: The Ancient Egyptian Townsite-city-region (hieroglyph) is Gardiner sign listed no. O49 for the intersection of a town's streets. In some Egyptian hieroglyphs books it is called a City Plan.
  It is used in Egyptian hieroglyphs as a determinative in the names of town or city placenames. Also, as an ideogram in the Egyptian word "city", niwt.
  From the photos in WikiCommons, can be seen the variety of styles of the "intersection-form" of the hieroglyph..
caption: Painted wall relief: note that the Ibis, Mut (hieroglyph), Mouth, Iat standart (hieroglyph), and Townsite, all have white paint.
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