Egypt
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten
Egyptian. An Introduction to the writing and language of the Middle Kingdom
Volume I: Grammar, Syntax and Indexes; Volume II: Sign lists, Exercises and Reading Texts
J.F. Borghouts
2010
- Online: The Trismegistos Project
Trismegistos Trismegistos [TM], called after the famous epithet of Hermes - Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom and writing who also played a major role in Greek religion and philosophy, is a platform aiming to surmount barriers of language and discipline...
- New Book Edition: James Allen's Middle Egyptian
The second edition of James Allen's important book Middle Egyptian is now available. According to the blurb on Amazon.co.uk, the updates are as follows: This second edition contains revised exercises and essays, providing an up to date account of...
- Book Review: Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Peter C. Nadig) K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5, Setnakht, Ramesses III and Contemporaries. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. ISBN 9780631184317. The Liverpudlian Egyptologist and...
- Book Review: Ramesside Inscriptions
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Peter C. Nadig, Freie Universität Berlin) K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5, Setnakht, Ramesses III and Contemporaries. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. xxiv, 523. ISBN 9780631184317....
- Demotic Egyptian
Egyptian Demotic The chronologically penultimate variety of the Egyptian language is known as Demotic. Demotic is the most cursive script developed by the Egyptians. This stage of the language has, in many ways, connections to the preceding stage, Late...
Egypt
New Book: Egyptian
Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten
Egyptian. An Introduction to the writing and language of the Middle Kingdom
Volume I: Grammar, Syntax and Indexes; Volume II: Sign lists, Exercises and Reading Texts
J.F. Borghouts
2010
This is a data-oriented grammatical description of Middle Egyptian, a now extinct Pharaonic language, spoken and written in the hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts, between 2100 and 1700 before our era, the period of the Middle Kingdom. Middle Egyptian was regarded by the Egyptians as a classical stage of their language and it remained in use for a long time after that period.
Middle Egyptian texts are extremely varied and comprise stories, historical narratives, letters, scientific treatises, and a great number of religious sources.
The first volume is a systematic description of the language, illustrated by a great number of quotations from original texts, and provided with word lists and other indexes. The second volume leads the reader in a gradual way in 33 lessons through the grammatical description of the first volume, and moreover contains an extensive list of hieroglyphic signs and their values, exercises and, finally, original texts for reading.
- Online: The Trismegistos Project
Trismegistos Trismegistos [TM], called after the famous epithet of Hermes - Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom and writing who also played a major role in Greek religion and philosophy, is a platform aiming to surmount barriers of language and discipline...
- New Book Edition: James Allen's Middle Egyptian
The second edition of James Allen's important book Middle Egyptian is now available. According to the blurb on Amazon.co.uk, the updates are as follows: This second edition contains revised exercises and essays, providing an up to date account of...
- Book Review: Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Peter C. Nadig) K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5, Setnakht, Ramesses III and Contemporaries. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. ISBN 9780631184317. The Liverpudlian Egyptologist and...
- Book Review: Ramesside Inscriptions
Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Review by Peter C. Nadig, Freie Universität Berlin) K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions. Translations. Vol. 5, Setnakht, Ramesses III and Contemporaries. Malden, Mass./Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. Pp. xxiv, 523. ISBN 9780631184317....
- Demotic Egyptian
Egyptian Demotic The chronologically penultimate variety of the Egyptian language is known as Demotic. Demotic is the most cursive script developed by the Egyptians. This stage of the language has, in many ways, connections to the preceding stage, Late...