Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The ancient Egyptian Water-jugs-in-stand hieroglyph, is Gardiner sign listed no. W17, W18, within the Gardiner signs for vessels of stone and earthenware.The hieroglyph is used as an ideogram in (kh)nt-( nt), for 'a stand (for vases)'. It is also used phonetically for ( nt).The water-jugs-in-stand hieroglyph is often written with the complement of three other hieroglyphs, the water ripple, N35, bread bun, X1, and two strokes, Z4 , to make the Egyptian language word foremost, khenti.