Hare (hieroglyph)

The ancient Egyptian Hare hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed no. E34 (𓃹) is a portrayal of the desert hare or Cape hare, Lepus capensis of Egypt, within the Gardiner signs for mammals. The ancients used the name of sekhat for the hare.[1]

It is an Egyptian language biliteral with the value wn,[2] (or un), often used in a hieroglyph composition block with the horizontal n. or

Hare in hieroglyphs

Hare hieroglyph in text (reading left-to-right)

Lepus capensis sinaiticus

The biliteral expresses the sound "oon", or "oonen",;[3] it is also an ideogram for the verb "to be", or "to exist",[4] (i.e. "is", "are", "was", etc.).

The famous Pharaoh Unas, (for his Pyramid texts), is named using the hare hieroglyph. It also appears in the name of Wenamun, a (possibly fictional) priest who appears in a famous history of c. 1000 BCE.

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  Relief
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  Detail of Hare and water-ripple quadrat (hieroglyph block)
  (also shows Stool-or-mat (hieroglyph) and Throne (hieroglyph))
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  Vertical text, hare hieroglyph at beginning
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  Partially missing lunette of a stela; Finely executed in shallow, incised-bas relief