Hi Neb, I answered your question and please let me repeat my message here again:
** Dear Neb, thank you for your messages. Please pardon me for my absence. It was out of my hand.
The AE glyph [D22] denotes 2/4 **two quarters** which means 1/2 **one-half** and don't mean 2/3 as wrongly known in traditional Egyptology. The sign [D21] for phoneme _r_ means four (4) as a number. It is unique in Egyptian numbers (1-10) and has a phonetic value **arba3a**. You know that number (4) is written as 4 vertical dashes IIII but it could be written also like [Z1:D21].
The phonetic value for the Egyptian 1/4 **one quarter** is "rob3' and written in Hieroglyphs as [D21:Z1:D36]. Please, see Wallis Budge EHD p.415a last entry. He translated it to 'number'!! The phonetic value for [D22] is **rob3yn** or in slang Egyptian 'rob3ain', which means in English 'two-quarters'. Gardiner offered it a close phonetic value 'rwy' but wrongly translated it to 2/3 'two-thirds'!!
[R4:N16:N16]-[S29-S34], = Kind Greetings and Peace.
Ossama Alsaadawi **
I'm really glad that I'm back again. I have some bone fracture which needs a long time to heal up.
Thank you Neb, **Ausar** and all the good friends of SearchEgypt for your kind interest.
Alsaadawi 4
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