The tattoos on the cheeks are
identical, but mirror-inverted. Together all these hieroglyphics
of one cheek tattoo mean "maat" = truth. One can see
the following hieroglyphics: the sickle (U1, phone
"m³"), the forearm (D36, phone "a"), the
bread (X1, phone "t") and the socle/foundation (Aa11,
phone "a/m³"). These four letters together make up the
abstract form of "maat". Normally there would be a
fifth symbol, that tells the reader, how the maat is meant, for
example: You can see on the most little picture of hieroglyphics
a figure, and this human shaped figure together with the basics
for maat mean "figure of maat". The picture below shows
the basic form of maat together with a book, and this is
"the science of maat". The figure and the book
define/determinate the maat. So on the cheeks there is only the
abstract form of maat. Like all the Medjai tattoos, these
hieroglyphs are artistically positioned. That was allowed on Old
Egypt. Artists and writers were free to place the hieroglyphics.
They try to place them stratetically. Here the forearm is very
big, and the symbols for bread and socle are quite smaller. On
the picture with the old Egyptian Medjai (right picture) one can
see lines above and below the letters. The confine the
hieroglyphic set. Ardeth has no such lines.
So, clearly these cheek tattoos are no skiff or boat or something
Arabic. With the help of an online Old Egyptian dictionary I
found out the meaning.
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