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Shade Jefferson Ford posted an update in the group
4 years agowHm mswt mdw nTr (Medew Netcher Study Group) 4 years ago · Written in hieroglyphics, KMT was pictured as a
burned piece of wood. This meant KMT was the Land of The Blacks. Some sources still erroneously interpret this to mean Black Soil.6 Comments-
I have a similar picture of this in Anthony Browder ‘s Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization.
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Antony Browder says this as well in his book. Yet, he points out “Kemet”(KMT) written in hieroglyphics was represented by a burnt piece of wood. I was wondering why he said this for he also points out the burnt piece represents KM, which itself means “Black.” Yet, the M is pictured as an owl . The T is pictured as a bread loaf . The determinative you referred to is pictured as an encircled X, which represents the whole plan of a city. Altogether, all four hieroglyphic symbols mean “Land of the Blacks.”
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Htp bro. The owl M is “a phonetic complement”. The charcoal is km by it self.-
Hotep, Brother Tristan. Yes, the owl represents the letter M. The KM means “black” or “charcoal.” I find it interesting that the M serves a double function here.
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As bro. Tristan has pointed out the owl (m) is a phonetic compliment and also the bread loaf (t) indicates a feminine ending. The word is correctly written as km.t with that determinative for city, town-
Hotep, Brother Amoyemaat. I did not know the bread loaf had a feminine connection. The owl stands for the consonant M. Yes, km.t is the word used to name the ancient Nile Valley. Thank you for the information.
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