How do you spell King Tutankhamun's name in hieroglyphics?

Answer 1

First, the word Osiris is not Egyptian but a Greek form of the name which was written in hieroglyphs with signs spelling 3sir, where the 3 and the i are sounds not found in English.

This is written in various ways, but the most commonly seen is the sign showing the side view of a throne over an eye, followed by the determinative sign for a god. The name means "He of the throne".

See link below for an image of this word:

Answer 2

The modern English word sphinx comes straight from classical Greek Σφίγξ meaning a strangler - the sphinx was a monster in Greek mythology. The Greeks also applied the name to some of the statues they saw when visiting Egypt.

In hieroglyphs the ancient Egyptian word is written sh.spw which is closely related to the word sh.sp, meaning simply a statue or an image. Clearly the Egyptian sphinx was not a monster, simply a religious image of a particular king combined with the power of a lion or other animal.

Since hieroglyphs, like ancient Arabic, Phoenician and Hebrew, did not write any vowel sounds we can never know how these words were pronounced.

Answer 3

One easy way to refer to the Pharaoh is to use the sedge (sometimes called "heraldic rush") hieroglyph.

Answer 4

pharaoh