Km (hieroglyph) - km.t

km.t

Ancient Egypt is commonly referred to as 'km.t', with the theorized reference to the black Nile Delta earth. The determinative O49 is used to designate the term for 'country, inhabited/cultivated land', called the niw.t (a political designate). It is a circle with a cross which represents a street, 'town intersection'.

The 198 BC Rosetta Stone uses the Black (hieroglyph) three times to make the name of Egypt: km.t. Of the 22 placename uses for the "name of ancient Egypt", 7 are for another name of Egypt as iAt- , signifying the soil of Egypt, N30: X1*Z2- , which is the Greek form of "Egypt", signifying it as "the (divine) place of the mound (of creation)" and the fertile black soil of the land after the Inundation. (Note the doubled hieroglyph, Gardiner N23, is used as the Two Lands, (Upper Egypt, and Lower Egypt), and the common use of "Ta-Mer-t", and additionally uses of 'Horus of the Two Lands' .)

In the Demotic (Egyptian) text of the Rosetta Stone, the demotic for Egypt is 'Kmi' . There are three uses of the actual Kmi, but 7 others referenced as Kmi refer to iAt in the hieroglyphs. Other euphemistic references to Egypt in the Rosetta Stone include "Ta-Mer-t", which has the meaning of the 'full/fruitful/cultivated land', hr-tAwy, the 'lands of Horus', and tAwy, the "Two Lands."

Kmi—spelling-"Egypt" —(22 places, sychronized, Demotic–Hieroglyphs)

demotic—hieroglyphs –Kmi—Ta-Mer-t –Kmi—Ta-Mer-t –Kmi—rsy.t + mHt (i.e. South and North)(lands) –Kmi—"Hr tAwy" –Kmi—kmt-(restored) –Kmi—Ta-Mer-t –Kmi—Ta-Mer-t –Kmi—iAt –Kmi—kmt –Kmi—"Hr tAwy" –Kmi—Ta-Mer-t –Kmi—iAt –Kmi—iAt

demotic—hieroglyphs 14.–Kmi—XXXXXX-(omitted from text) 15.–Kmi—rsy.t + mHt (i.e. South and North)(lands) 16.–Bki—iAt 17.–Kmi—kmt 18.–Kmi—iAt 19.–Kmi—tAwy 20.–Kmi—iAt 21.–Kmi—iAt 22.–Kmi—Ta-Mer-t -- -- --