Meryt.

Meryt's name was written in hieroglyphs like this:

The first signs stands for two letters, m + r, so it reads mr. The Egyptians did not record vowels, so e is not written out. The second sign repeats r, but is not read again. The two signs which follow are read y, and the last sign is t. So the name is written Mr + r + y + t, Meryt.

This is the list of the main hieroglyphic signs, from J. Malek's ABC of Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1994, reprinted 1998, ISBN 1 85444 052 7):


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