(l) The hieroglyphic sign for a pot of water in such words as Nu and Nut.
(m) A "pomegranate" (replacing a bust of Tanit) upon a sacred column at Carthage (Arthur J. Evans, "Mycenæan Tree and Pillar Cult," p. 46).
(n) The form of the body of an octopus as conventionalized on the coins of Central Greece (compare Fig. 24 (d)). Its similarity to the Egyptian pot-sign (l) (which also has the significance of mother-goddess) is worthy of note.
Referring to the sign (g and h) for "a shell," Mr. Griffith says (p. 25): "It is regularly found at all periods in the word ḫaw·t=altar,[334] and perhaps only in this word: but it is a peculiarity of the Pyramid Texts that the sign shown in the text-figures c, h, and i is in them used very commonly, not as a word-sign, but also as a phonetic equivalent to the sign labelled k (in the text-figure) for ḫ' (kha), or apparently for ḫ alone in many words.
"The name of the lotus leaf is probably derived from the same root, on account of its shell-like outline or vice versa."
Fig. 7.
(a) An Egyptian design representing the sun-god Horus emerging from a lotus, representing his mother Hathor (Isis).
(b) Papyrus sceptre often carried by goddesses and animistically identified with them either as an instrument of life-giving or destruction.