Gardiner Number	Hieroglyph	Description of Glyphs	Details
E1		Bull	Det. of cattle. ex. ng “bull,” mnmnt “cattle.” Ideo. in k3 “bull.”
E2		Bull preparing to charge	Det. in sm3 “fighting bull.” Ideo. in k3 nḫt “victorious bull,” (epithet of Pharaoh.)
E3		Calf	Det. in bḥs “calf”
E4		Sacred cow	Det. in ḥs3t “sacred cow.”
E5		Cow with calf	Det. in 3ms “show solicitude.”
E6		Horse	Ideo. or Det. in ssmt “horse.” Det. in ibr “stallion.”
E7		Donkey	Det. in ʿ3 “donkey.”
E8		Kid	Phon. ib, “kid.” Det. in ʿwt “flocks.”
E9		Newborn bubalis	Phon. iw. In iwr “conceive.”
E10		Ram	Det. in b3 “ram,” ẖnmw “Khnum,”ʿwt ḥḏt “white flocks, sheep”
E11		Ram	Use as E10
E12		Pig	Det. in rri “pig.”
E13		Cat	Det. in miw “cat.”
E14		Dog	Det. in iw “dog,” ṯsm “hound.”
E15		Recumbent Jackal	Det. or Ideo. in Inpw, “Anubis.”
E16		Recumbent Jackal on shrine	Use as E15.
E17		Jackal	Det. or Ideo. in s3b “jackal” and “dignitary.”
E18		Jackal on standard R12	Det. or Ideo. in Wp-w3wt “Opener of ways, Wepwawet.”
E19		O.K. form of last	Use as E18
E20		Seth animal	Det. or Ideo. in stẖ, stš “Seth.” Det. in ẖnnw “turmoil,” sh3 “confusion.”
E21		Recumbent Seth animal	Det. in nšni “storm, rage.”
E22		Lion	Det. or Ideo. in m3i “lion”
E23		Recumbent Lion	Phon. rw. Det. or Ideo. in rw “lion.”
E24		Panther	Det. or Ideo. in 3by “panther, leopard.”
E25		Hippopotamus	Det. in db, dib “hippopotamus.”
E26		Elephant	Det. 3bw “elephant.” Ideo. in 3bw “Elephantine.”
E27		Giraffe	Det. sr “foretell.” Det. or Ideo in mmi “giraffe.”
E28		Oryx	Det. in m3ḥḏ “oryx.”
E29		Gazelle	Det. in gḥs “gazelle.”
E30		Ibex	Det. in n3w, nr3w, ni3 “ibex.”
E31		Goat with collar	Det. in sʿḥ “rank, privilege.”
E32		Baboon	Det. in iʿn “baboon,” ky “monkey,” qnd “furious.”
E33		Monkey	Det. gf, gif “monkey.”
E34		Hare	Phono. wn. wnn “be.”

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