Gardiner's sign list: A

Gardiner's arrangement of signs is more detailed than this. Most signs have variations, some of them have several up to ten or fifteen variations. These go from A1 to A55 and that covers the range of this group, however the Jsesh program, the source for these images goes to A511 in this first group, the specificity of them a bit amusing.


I just now realized what the program Jsesh stands for. Sesh is the Egyptian word for "scribe" transliterated sš.

The groups are arranged by importance, first living things starting with man then animals, plants, things on the Earth, important objects, abstractions, geometric shapes, then unclassified items. People and animals are grouped first whole then grouped by body parts, the body parts are listed top to bottom. So the next group then will be B parts of human body.


This figure of a man is a bit of a drag to draw. It is an important figure so it gets drawn a lot and because it's so involved they end up looking like a pile of scribbled  K's. Due to its importance the sign is assigned A1.

I drew this first guy and c/p, assembled and stacked, labeled, positioned, worked magic upon the rest of them just for you, you, because you are so very special.