In our purely historical world, even laws are mere hieroglyphs in the sand.
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Literature co-operated as well: poems were set up in altars and hieroglyphs in pyramids.
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In addition, as stated earlier, the hieroglyphs on the reverse of the shell are upside down when the front of the shell is turned around.
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Utilization of hieroglyphs thus enabled the artist to represent more clearly the complex simultaneity of nature.
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The chiselled, unperturbed musical themes of the ballet are heard as distinct events, elements of an abstract design that could very easily be a full-fledged text as indecipherable as hieroglyphs.
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Symbols function as hieroglyphs of the interpenetration of divinity and the world, but symbols can never be exhaustively decoded or understood.
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All too often, interpreters of culture are hobbled by the formidable mystique of music as a foreign language, of the score ashieroglyph, of musical form as technical and esoteric.
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There are hieroglyphs printed on a passport which are not adequately explained to the bearer.
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While they search for his body, they find footprints that lead to a slipper, inside of which they find another note with a purplehieroglyph.
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There was even ahieroglyph("nedjem/bener") depicting a carob pod that bore the primary meaning of sweet; pleasant.
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In the studio she could take all the time needed to coax and transfer details of figures and hieroglyphs onto the cloth.
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Other scarabs with this title have variations of what hieroglyphs are added or omitted because of the multiple copies made of this "scarab series".
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Egyptians used cursive hieroglyphs for religious literature on papyrus and wood.
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The author recounts his fruitless attempts to make plaster casts of the superb hieroglyphs and gives other curious details.
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Hieroglyphs representing celebration, a child, and dancing respectively.
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