File:Ashkelon - jsqAr(w)ny.gif

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Description Merenptah Stele (Israel Stele): the name Ashqelon written in hieroglyphs as it appears on the stele (mirror view) in line 27 (context: Ashkelon is conquered, Gezer seized). Transliteration: j-s-q-A-r(w)-n-y (reed-folded cloth-slope of hill-Egyptian vulture-lion-ripple of water-two strokes) plus determinatives: enemy-foreign land (throwing stick-three hills). Egyptians did not differentiate 'R' from 'L'.
Note, in WikiHeiro the text should be written as such: <hiero>i-s-q-A-rw:n:y-T14:N25</hiero>
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Author Brave heart, using free hieroglyphic fonts

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current11:38, 11 August 2006Thumbnail for version as of 11:38, 11 August 20061,000 × 525 (11 KB)Brave heart~commonswiki (talk | contribs){{Information |Description=Merenptah Stele (Israel Stele): the name ''Ashqelon'' written in hieroglyphs as it appears on the stele (mirror view) in line 27 (context: '''''Ashkelon''' is conquered, Gezer seized''). [http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/peop

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