Description
Single stroke
Cattle hobble
or yoke
Coil of rope
Water lily
(also called Lotus)
Finger
Tadpole
or Frog
Man with both
hands raised
Multiples of these values were expressed by repeating the symbol as many times as needed. For instance, a stone carving from Karnak shows the number 4622 as
Egyptian hieroglyphs could be written in both directions (and even vertically). This example is written left-to-right and top-down; on the original stone carving, it is right-to-left, and the signs are thus inverted.