Km (hieroglyph)  The Egyptian hieroglyph for "black" in Gardiner's sign list is numbered I6. Its phonetic value is . The "Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache-(Dictionary of the Egyptian Language)" lists no less than 24 different terms of km indicating 'black' such as black stone, metal, wood, hair, eyes, and animals. The most common explanation for the hieroglyph is under the Gardiner's Sign List, section I for "amphibious animals, reptiles, etc" is a crocodile skin with spines. Rossini and Schumann-Antelme propose that the "crocodile skin" hieroglyph actually shows claws coming out of the hide. Besides 'black', the alternate use of the hieroglyph is for items terminating, coming-to-an-end, items of completion, hence a reference to charcoal, burning to its ending. Ancient Egypt is commonly referred to as 'km.t' , believed to be a reference to the black Nile Delta earth. The determinative O49 O49 is used to designate the term for 'country, inhabited/cultivated land', called the niw.t (a political designate). It is a circle with a cross which represents a street, 'town intersection'. The 198 BC Rosetta Stone uses the Black (hieroglyph) three times to make the name of Egypt: km.t. Of the 22 placename uses for the "name of ancient Egypt", 7 are for another name of Egypt as iAt-M17-G1-X1:., signifying the soil of Egypt, N30: X1*Z2-N30:N23-X1:Z1, which is the Greek form of "Egypt", signifying it as "the (divine) place of the mound (of creation)" and the fertile black soil of the land after the Inundation. (Note the doubled hieroglyph, Gardiner N23, N23, is used as the "Two Lands", (Upper Egypt, and Lower Egypt), and the common use of "Ta-Mer-t", and additionally uses of " 'Horus of the Two Lands' ".) In the Demotic (Egyptian) text of the Rosetta Stone, the demotic for Egypt is " 'Kmi' ". There are three uses of the actual Kmi, but 7 others referenced as Kmi refer to iAt in the hieroglyphs.