Hieroglyphic Dictionary

Author: Bill Petty
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781481271653
Category : Egyptian language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Hieroglyphic Dictionary is part of Museum Tours' series "The Essentials" ... books that anyone serious about the study of Egyptology will find useful. It has been created to fill a need for a low cost, yet comprehensive, translation aid to hieroglyphs that is convenient to use. Its emphasis is on words found in monumental inscriptions, as opposed to words found strictly in papyri. The words it contains are most likely to be encountered on the monuments in Egypt or in museums. It contains a about 4,000 entries. This compares favorably to the 2,500 entries in the vocabulary of Alan Gardiner's "Egyptian Grammar", and the 5,000 plus entries in Raymond Faulkner's "Dictionary of Middle Egyptian". The volume's convenient size makes it ideal for everyday use anywhere one happens to be, a local museum or the monuments in Egypt. It is a "must have" for any serious student, Egyptologist or Egyptophile.From Museum Tours Press.

Egyptian Glyphary

Author: Bill Petty
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781481007450
Category : Egyptian language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Egyptian Glyphary is part of Museum Tours' series "The Essentials" ... books that anyone serious about the study of Egyptology will find useful.This unique Egyptian language dictionary is called a Glyphary to distinguish it from dictionaries that list entries in strictly alphabetical order. Rather, it lists words based on the hieroglyphic signs that they contain, resulting in easier word look-up. One can find a word without knowing its beginning letter or its transliteration. A word can often be found even if part of the word is missing or unreadable.It has been created to fill a need for a low cost, yet comprehensive, translation aid to hieroglyphs that is convenient to use. Its emphasis is on words found in monumental inscriptions, as opposed to words found strictly in papyri. The words it contains are most likely to be encountered on the monuments in Egypt or in museums. It contains a total of about 8,000 total entries, of which about 4,000 are unique. This compares favorably to the 2,500 entries in the vocabulary of Alan Gardiner's "Egyptian Grammar", and the 5,000 plus entries in Raymond Faulkner's "Dictionary of Middle Egyptian". The volume's convenient size makes it ideal for everyday use anywhere one happens to be, a local museum or the monuments in Egypt. It is a "must have" for any serious student, Egyptologist or Egyptophile.From Museum Tours Press.

Hieroglyphic Sign List

Author: Bill Petty
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781477490594
Category : Egyptian language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Hieroglyphic Sign List is part of Museum Tours' series "The Essentials" ... books that anyone serious about the study of Egyptology will find useful. This paperback version of the Hieroglyphic Sign List was developed as an outgrowth of Museum Tours' popular, pocket-sized Sign List book. By increasing its size we were able to overcome most of the limitations of the smaller book. It is not just a larger version of the spiral bound book. It has been completely re-edited and updated. Definitions have been expanded. Sign descriptions have been added. More relevant examples have been included. Words have been spelled out in glyphs as well as in transliteration. In order to maintain ease of use, the order and the numbering generally follow the sign list in Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar. From Museum Tours Press.

English to Middle Egyptian Dictionary

Author: Bill Petty
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781508700036
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This is the most comprehensive English to Middle Egyptian dictionary available, with about 8,000 entries, including almost all of the most common English words in use.It compares very favorably with Gardiner's English-Egyptian Vocabulary and Nichols' book, each containing only about 2,000 entries. This is the fifth book in Museum Tours "The Essentials" series, along with Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Hieroglyph Sign List, Egyptian Glyphary and The Names of the Kings of Egypt.

How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs

Author: Mark Collier
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520239494
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
With the help of Egyptologists Collier and Manley, museum-goers, tourists, and armchair travelers alike can gain a basic knowledge of the language and culture of ancient Egypt. Each chapter introduces a new aspect of hieroglyphic script and encourages acquisition of reading skills with practical exercises. 200 illustrations.

First Steps in Egyptian

Author: Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Egyptian language
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description

Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Complete Beginners

Author: Bill Manley
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500290288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
An original and accessible approach to learning hieroglyphs, written by an experienced teacher and author. This is the first guide to reading hieroglyphs that begins with Egyptian monuments themselves. Assuming no knowledge on the part of the reader, it shows how to interpret the information on the inscriptions in a step-by-step journey through the script and language of ancient Egypt. We enter the world of the ancient Egyptians and explore their views on life and death, Egypt and the outside world, humanity and the divine. The book draws on texts found on some thirty artifacts ranging from coffins to stelae to obelisks found in museums in Egypt, America, and Europe, and selected across two thousand years. The texts are then explained clearly, and are supported by full translations, photographs, and line drawings.

An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

Author: Kathryn A. Bard
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470673362
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 516

Book Description
This student-friendly introduction to the archaeology of ancient Egypt guides readers from the Paleolithic to the Greco-Roman periods, and has now been updated to include recent discoveries and new illustrations. • Superbly illustrated with photographs, maps, and site plans, with additional illustrations in this new edition • Organized into 11 chapters, covering: the history of Egyptology and Egyptian archaeology; prehistoric and pharaonic chronology and the ancient Egyptian language; geography, resources, and environment; and seven chapters organized chronologically and devoted to specific archaeological sites and evidence • Includes sections on salient topics such as the constructing the Great Pyramid at Giza and the process of mummification

Middle Egyptian Literature

Author: James P. Allen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107087430
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 459

Book Description
This volume provides original texts as well as translations of the major works of Middle Kingdom literature.

The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: The Classic period inscriptions

Author: Martha J. Macri
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806134970
Category : Inscriptions, Mayan
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings that remained, often by transporting box cameras and plaster casts through the jungle on muleback. The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs, Volume I: The Classic Period Inscriptions is a guide to all the known hieroglyphic symbols of the Classic Maya script. In the New Catalog Martha J. Macri and Matthew G. Looper have produced a valuable research tool based on the latest Mesoamerican scholarship. An essential resource for all students of Maya texts, the New Catalog is also accessible to nonspecialists with an interest in Mesoamerican cultures. Macri and Looper present the combined knowledge of the most reliable scholars in Maya epigraphy. They provide currently accepted syllabic and logographic values, a history of references to published discussions of each sign, and related lexical entries from dictionaries of Maya languages, all of which were compiled through the Maya Hieroglyphic Database Project. This first volume of the New Catalog focuses on texts from the Classic Period (approximately 150-900 C.E.), which have been found on carved stone monuments, stucco wall panels, wooden lintels, carved and painted pottery, murals, and small objects of jadeite, shell, bone, and wood. The forthcoming second volume will describe the hieroglyphs of the three surviving Maya codices that date from later periods.