Template:Hiero

{{{name}}} in hieroglyphs

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{{Hiero}} there are a number of subpages in this template space that are used for writing Egyptian hieroglyphs in Wikipedia articles. The codes for the <hiero> tags may be found at Help:WikiHiero syntax.

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt/Templates for further details.

Parameters

1: name of hieroglyph

2: hieroglyph (<hiero> ... </hiero> expected)

|align=left / right / center: Position the whole hieroglyph box

|style=: Specify a custom style for the box

|era=
|BC=BC / BCE

`\|era=`	era name	era as shown	bg color
pd	Naqada III	Naqada III (protodynastic) (3200–3000 BC)	plum
ed	Early Dynastic Period of Egypt	Early Dynastic Period (3150–2686 BC)	skyblue
ok	Old Kingdom of Egypt	Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BC)	sandybrown
1ip	First Intermediate Period of Egypt	1st Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC)	crimson
mk	Middle Kingdom of Egypt	Middle Kingdom (2055–1650 BC)	gold
2ip	Second Intermediate Period of Egypt	2nd Intermediate Period (1650–1550 BC)	red
nk	New Kingdom of Egypt	New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC)	palegoldenrod
3ip	Third Intermediate Period of Egypt	3rd Intermediate Period (1069–664 BC)	lightcoral
lp	Late Period of Egypt	Late Period (664–332 BC)	palegreen
pt	Ptolemaic dynasty	Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BC)	aquamarine
egypt	Egypt extra		navajowhite
FooBar	FooBar		silver
			silver

|gardiner=: The identifier by Gardiner's sign list code (roughly, A–Z + number: A20, Z12)

|unicode=: The Unicode codepoint for this hieroglyph (format: looks like U+13008)

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Template:Hiero

{{{name}}} in hieroglyphs

A general-purpose template for displaying hieroglyphs.

Template:Hiero/2cartouche

{{{praenomen}}}

praenomen or throne name

{{{nomen}}}

nomen or birth name

{{{name}}}
in hieroglyphs

A template for royal names requiring two cartouches: for praenomen and nomen.

Template:Hiero/1cartouche

{{{nomen}}}

nomen or birth name

{{{name}}}
in hieroglyphs

A template for a cartouche name, where only one is known.

Template:Hiero/serekh

{{{horus}}}

{{{name}}}
in hieroglyphs

A template for a Horus-name displayed in a serekh.

Template:Hiero/3name

{{{horus}}}

serekh or Horus name

{{{praenomen}}}

praenomen or throne name

{{{nomen}}}

nomen or birth name

{{{name}}}
in hieroglyphs

A template for a Horus name, praenomen and nomen.

Template:Hiero/5Fold

{{{horus}}}

serekh or Horus name

{{{nebty}}}

Nebty name

{{{goldenhorus}}}

Golden Horus name

{{{praenomen}}}

praenomen or throne name

{{{nomen}}}

nomen or birth name

{{{name}}}
in hieroglyphs

A template for the Fivefold Titulary.

Template Data

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TemplateData for Hiero

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Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
1	`1` `name`	no description	Unknown	required
2	`2` `image`	<hiero> ... <hiero> expected	Unknown	required
align	`align`	no description	Unknown	optional
era	`era`	no description	Unknown	optional
BC	`BC`	BC or BCE Default BC	Unknown	optional
style	`style`	no description	Unknown	optional
unicode	`unicode`	no description	Unknown	optional
gardiner	`gardiner`	no description	Unknown	optional