The ancient Egyptians had a clever system for writing foreign names, using the nearest single-consonant signs in their writing system. They did not write any vowel sounds (exactly as in ancient Phoenician, Hebrew and Arabic) so the name Sara could be written with just two signs: s and r.
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Hieroglyphs have several signs with the sound s, including a horizontal line with two short uprights crossing it in the middle (representing a door-bolt), a vertical line curving over at the top and reaching down about two-thirds of the way down to the base, representing a piece of folded cloth. The sound r is written with the front view of a mouth, simplified so it is two shallow curving lines meeting at each end.
To indicate that this represents the name of a person, a determinative sign is placed after it – the picture of a seated woman.
