The inscription reads right to left on all three lines. Starting with the bottom line the hieroglyphs translate as follows:
Duck: biliteral sign sA ("son")
Red crown of northern/lower Egypt: uniliteral sign n (preposition "of")
Reed leaf: uniliteral sign i
Senet game board: biliteral sign mn
Water squiggle: uniliteral sign n (phonetic complement, simply reinforces the reading of mn)
Seated man: determinative (word classifier, not read aloud)
Put together, you get his name sA-n-Imn, or Sienamun as the Met calls him. Translated literally, "son of (the god) Amun."
The first two lines note that Sienamun was not only a priest (Hm-nTr) but also an overseer of horses (imy-r smsmw).
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They were originally kept as pets for their songs. The gourd is designed in such a way that it amplifies the sounds they make. Later on during the Qing dynasty, they were also bred and used for cricket fights.
John Rice Irwin’s book of interviews with Alex Stewart, “Portrait of a Pioneer,” is such a good read. Stewart was a woodworking genius and could make just about anything.
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Yeah. There have been a few new finds that were uncovered by the war, and preserved by Ukrainians, but the vast majority of changes will be loss rather than discovery. All for a pointless vain dictator's war.
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