Middle Egyptian

Author : Peter Beylage
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646022025
Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle Egyptian written by Peter Beylage and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This grammar provides a comprehensive overview of Middle Egyptian and illustrates its grammatical features with extensive examples from various sources. Exercises at the end of each chapter, along with a sign list and a hieroglyphic word list, provide the reader with the means to apply and practice the content, enabling this book to be used as both a grammar reference and a textbook. The book’s structure and detailed outline facilitate its use as a reference, making it easy to find information on any particular grammatical feature. At the same time, the extensive content of the forty chapters provides a suitable basis for self-guided study and enables the student to read and understand Egyptian inscriptions and literary texts in hieroglyphic transliteration. Recent developments in the understanding of Egyptian are exemplified in numerous quotations from Egyptian texts, and exercises at the end of each chapter provide further opportunity for considering the grammatical phenomena discussed in the chapter, allowing for both practice and review. For reasons of convenience, the vocabulary necessary for the exercises, along with the words used in the examples, are arranged into a word list at the end of the book. Similar and alternative grammatical constructions are compared, and in addition to the “classical” language of the Middle Kingdom, the book considers both Old Egyptian and Late Egyptian influences. As a hybrid reference and textbook, this volume introduces the reader to the grammatical features of Middle Egyptian and illustrates the means of expression used in ancient Egyptian.

Author : James P. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139917099
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle Egyptian written by James P. Allen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Middle Egyptian introduces the reader to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It contains twenty-six lessons, exercises (with answers), a list of hieroglyphic signs, and a dictionary. It also includes a series of twenty-six essays on the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian history, society, religion, literature, and language. Grammar lessons and cultural essays allows users not only to read hieroglyphic texts but also to understand them, providing the foundation for understanding texts on monuments and reading great works of ancient Egyptian literature. This third edition is revised and reorganized, particularly in its approach to the verbal system, based on recent advances in understanding the language. Illustrations enhance the discussions, and an index of references has been added. These changes and additions provide a complete and up-to-date grammatical description of the classical language of ancient Egypt for specialists in linguistics and other fields.

Author : Richard Bussmann
Publisher : Teach Yourself
ISBN 13 : 1473615720
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Complete Middle Egyptian written by Richard Bussmann and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for complete beginners, and tested for years with real learners, Complete Middle Egyptian offers a bridge from the textbook to the real world, enabling you to learn the grammar, access inscriptions in documents and monuments and even teaching you how to draw hieroglyphs yourself. Structured around key artefacts and introducing both the original hieroglyphs and transliteration (for easier understanding) this course also features: -16 learning units plus pronunciation section, grammar reference, sign list overview and sign list explanation -Stepped progression - clearly graduated progress through different levels of the language -Authentic materials - language taught through key artefacts and texts -Teaches the key skills - reading and understanding hieroglyphs -Culture insights - learn about the culture, society and politics in ancient Egypt -Self tests and learning activities - see and track your own progress Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.

Author : James P. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032466
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Language written by James P. Allen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of how the phonology and grammar of ancient Egyptian changed over four millennia of language history.

Author : Daniel L. Selden
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520275462
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hieroglyphic Egyptian written by Daniel L. Selden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the oldest known recorded languages—Hieroglyphic Egyptian. Unlike other approaches, it is geared toward learning to read one of the masterpieces of Middle Egyptian literature, the story “Shipwrecked Sailor,” written around 2200 bce. The text’s eighteen lessons–organized around such topics as the body, flora, fauna, titles, administration, religion, sexuality, and warfare—cover all the basic grammar and syntax of Middle Egyptian. The book includes exercises for each chapter, sign lists, Egyptian/English and English/Egyptian dictionaries defining all the words and phrases used in the lessons, and a new edition of the tale “Shipwrecked Sailor” with facing commentary. Although the overall approach is literary, Hieroglyphic Egyptian can also be used as an introduction to reading other material, such as biographical inscriptions, religious texts, historical annals, and mathematical or medical papyri. The text is suitable for classroom use, as well as for those who want to learn independently.

Author : Henry George Fischer
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 0870995286
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy written by Henry George Fischer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 1988 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The aim of this book is twofold: first, to provide beginning students with step-by-step guidance in drawing hieroglyphs; and secondly, to supplement the observations of Gardiner in the Sign List at the back of his Egyptian Grammar. The examples include all 24 of the common forms of "alphabetic" (monoconsonantal) signs, and a selection of other signs that are either difficult to draw or that call for additional comment - a total of about 200 in all. Comparative material, emphasizing Old Kingdom models, is presented in 175 line drawings. By familiarizing themselves with this material, along with the points made in the Introduction, students will, at the same time, learn a good deal about hieroglyphic palaeography"--Publisher's description.

Author : James E. Hoch
Publisher : Mississauga, Ont. : Benben Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle Egyptian Grammar written by James E. Hoch and published by Mississauga, Ont. : Benben Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a practical, modern introductory grammar for classroom and self-instruction. Unlike Alan Gardiner's monumental Egyptian Grammar , this is not intended as a reference work, and it is designed to be as user-friendly as possible by, for example, presenting simplified forms of genuine texts rather than diving straight into the originals. It is suggested the the 16 lessons be spread over about 30 weeks study. The book is widely used in North American courses.

Author : James P. Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107087430
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Middle Egyptian Literature written by James P. Allen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides original texts as well as translations of the major works of Middle Kingdom literature.

Author : Leonard H. Lesko
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520316924
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Egyptian Book of Two Ways written by Leonard H. Lesko and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Author : Karl-Theodor Zauzich
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292798045
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hieroglyphs Without Mystery written by Karl-Theodor Zauzich and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marveling over the tomb treasures of Ramses II and Tutankhamen that have toured U.S. and European museums in recent years, visitors inevitably wonder what the mysterious hieroglyphs that cover their surfaces mean. Indeed, everyone who is fascinated by ancient Egypt sooner or later wishes for a Rosetta stone to unlock the secrets of hieroglyphic writing. Hieroglyphs without Mystery provides the needed key. Written for ordinary people with no special language skills, the book quickly demonstrates that hieroglyphic writing can be read, once a few simple principles are understood. Zauzich explains the basic rules of the writing system and the grammar and then applies them to thirteen actual inscriptions taken from objects in European and Egyptian museums. By following his explanations and learning the most commonly used glyphs, readers can begin to decode hieroglyphs themselves and increase their enjoyment of both museum objects and ancient Egyptian sites. Even for the armchair traveler, learning about hieroglyphs opens a sealed door into ancient Egyptian culture. In examining these inscriptions, readers will gain a better understanding of Egyptian art, politics, and religion, as well as language.