Horned Snake (ef) his. This figure is often called cerastes. Standing by itself it usually stands for the possessive pronoun his.
Zigzag (en) to. Used here as a preposition.
Semicircle and Cerastes (tef) father. The semicircle is here an alphabetic phonetic, equal to t, and with ef makes TEF, meaning father.
Hawk (bak) Horus. The hawk alone stood for any solar deity. With the solar disk on the head and two ovals by the side, as in the present hieroglyph, it stood for Haremakhu, the sun in the horizon. The two ovals are called KHU, and stand for the eastern and western horizons.
Thothmes III. claims Horus as his father, and it is moreover evident from the above that the obelisk itself is dedicated to the rising sun. The great Sphinx at the pyramids of Ghizeh is also dedicated to Haremakhu, and this may account for the fact that the gigantic figure faces the east, the region of the rising sun.
| “He has set up two great obelisks capped with gold.” |
Throne Back (es). This may be the back of a chair. It is the old hieroglyph for the letter s.
Reel (ha) set up. This hieroglyph is by some thought to be the leg of a stool.
Zigzag (en) has.