The Egyptian H., author of the Hieroglyphiká, possibly identical to H., the son of Asclepiades, came from a family of grammarians and philosophers from Phenebythis in Panopolites; was active in Alexandria around AD 500. H. is known, among other things, from the vita of the pupil of Proclus, Isidorus [4], written by the Neoplatonist Damascius, and from a Greek petition to an official of Phenebythis between 491 and 493 (pap. Cairo 67295).
The Greek text of the Hieroglyphiká is recorded in MSS of the 14th cent. and, according to its title, has been translat…