Die Hieroglyphen
To the oldest writing characters belong also the hieroglyphics to old Egypt.
Their characters are a mixture from letter (phonetic) and word representation (ideographic).
As example of the phonetic serve here a cartouche from
the " stone of rosette ".
that the characters of letters are,
and for Ideogrphi
house | water | hand/give |
,whereby for a word a character is used.
Still another special feature of this writing is marked here.
It is written in three directions:
From above downward, or from left to the right, or from on the right to the left,
whereby you read direction aligns itself against the line of sight of the " figures ".
Thus is in lautlicher way of writing for " harvest " reading
from the left to the roghtand from on the right to the left