𓈚 SH ” ‎‏שׁ‏‎. 𓎡 K ” ‎‏כּ‏‎. 𓈎 Q ” ‎‏ק‏‎. 𓎼 Ḳ ” ‎‏ג‏‎. 𓏏 T ” תּ. 𓍿 ⎫ TH(?) ” ‎‏ת‏‎ (?). 𓍘 ⎭ 𓂧 Ṭ ” ‎‏ט‏‎. 𓆓 TCH or Ṣ (?) ” ‎‏צ‏‎. =Hieroglyphic writing.=—The hieroglyph is a =picture= of an object, animate or inanimate, _e.g._, 𓁹 an eye, 𓃝 a ram, 𓃹 a hare, 𓅐 a vulture, 𓅧 a duck, 𓇼 a star, 𓉶 an obelisk, 𓁷 a face, 𓂾 a leg. Now pictures may also represent =ideas=, _e.g._, 𓊊, a wall leaning on one side represents “falling”; 𓄤, a musical instrument, symbolizes “joy, happiness, pleasure,” etc.; 𓋩, a seal, represents something of which great care is taken, _i.e._, “treasure”; 𓀋, a man holding a vessel placed on his head, symbolizes “to bear, to carry”; 𓻊, the sky with a star hanging from it, suggests “night”; and so on. Hieroglyphs used in this way are called =ideographs=. Every object had a name, therefore each picture, or hieroglyph, was a word-sign, and a list of these would have made a dictionary in the earliest times. At one time all hieroglyphs were syllabic, and the Egyptians had no alphabetic hieroglyphs; and if scribes had needed to write down letter by letter the name of some foreign product, or the name of a foreign king, supposing they did not possess syllables suitable in sound, they would have been unable to do so. In fact the Egyptians needed an =alphabet=, and the oldest inscriptions of any length show that they already possessed one.