Bone-with-meat (hieroglyph)
Introduction The ancient Egyptian '''Bone-with-meat hieroglyph''' (Gardiner F44)  represented: "ancestry, inherit", and phonetic ''isw, iw' '' (inherit, etc. ); a determinative for the femur, (iw'); and ''swt'', for the tibia.Slab stela of Nefertiabet, with proto-typical form: as a meat section (spare rib-'''2 curved bones''')The Old Kingdom usage on slab steles, from the middle of the 3rd millennium BC, shows the proto-type form of the hieroglyph as a 'cut of meat', much like the spare ribs or beef ribs of the present era. The slab stela shows the bone as a multiple of two curved bones, much like the spare rib.Cartouche relief, Temple of Edfu. An example of a wall relief scene from Edfu at the Temple of Edfu shows a cartouche with the ''joint of meat'' hieroglyph. Another less common hieroglyph pictured within the cartouche is the vertical standing ''mummy hieroglyph.''
See also *Gardiner's Sign List#F. Parts of Mammals*List of Egyptian hieroglyphs
References *Budge. ''The Rosetta Stone,'' E.A.Wallace Budge, (Dover Publications), c 1929, Dover edition(unabridged), 1989. (softcover, )*Kamrin, 2004. ''Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Practical Guide'', Janice Kamrin, c 2004, Harry N. Abrams, Publisher, (hardcover, )