Bread on an offering mat R4 Sound ḥtp : hotepMeaning Offering. Peace, to be content. Kind three-sound sign How common 63rd commonest of our 336 signs: 0.25% of all signs written in real texts. Unicode U+132B5 𓊵 Famous Egyptians who wrote it in their names Read more about the bread on an offering mat sign How to read a stela, line by line How to read an Egyptian stela in hieroglyphics: the rounded top, the scene, the offering formula, the owner's name and family, read from the right end. Hieroglyphic translation: what a phone can read and what needs a reader Hieroglyphic translation explained: an app can name signs, kings' names and set phrases. A sentence needs grammar, context and a reader. The offering formula: the sentence on almost every tomb Hotep di nisut, the offering formula: how to spot it on a stela or false door, read it phrase by phrase, and what it asked for the dead. ← Threshing floor O50 Cloth on a pole R8 → All signs