Egyptian Language: Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics [Easy lessons in Egyptian hieroglyphics with sign list]

Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934.

ISBN 10: 0486213943 / ISBN 13: 9780486213941

Editore: New York : Dover Publications, 1983., 1983

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viii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm ; ISBN 9780486213941, 0486213943 ; OCLC 9532718 ; color pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Hieroglyphic writing -- The Rosetta Stone and the decipherment of hieroglyphics -- Hieroglyphics as ideographs, phonetics and determinatives -- A selection of hieroglyphic characters with their phonetic values, etc -- Pronouns and pronominal suffixes -- Nouns -- The article -- Adjectives, numerals, time, the year, etc -- The verb -- Adverbs, prepositions (simple and compound), etc -- Conjunctions and particles -- Extracts for reader ; Egyptian Language, Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics is a beginner's instruction manual written in 1910 by Egyptologist and hieroglyphic expert Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge. Intended as an easy introduction for anyone interested in learning the ancient Egyptian writing of hieroglyphics, Egyptian Language includes a short history on hieroglyphs, including the discovery of the Rosetta Stone, and lessons in phonetics and ideographs, parts of speech, and extracts of real Egyptian works (such as The Book of the Dead) with which to practice. SIR ERNEST ALFRED THOMPSON WALLIS BUDGE (1857-1934) was born in Bodmin, Cornwall in the UK and discovered an interest in languages at a very early age. Budge spent all his free time learning and discovering Semitic languages, including Assyrian, Syriac, and Hebrew. Eventually, through a close contact, he was able to acquire a job working with Egyptian and Iraqi artifacts at the British Museum. Budge excavated and deciphered numerous cuneiform and hieroglyphic documents, contributing vastly to the museum's collection. Eventually, he became the Keeper of his department, specializing in Egyptology. Budge wrote many books during his lifetime, most specializing in Egyptian life, religion, and language. ; VG.

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• Titolo: Egyptian Language: Easy Lessons in Egyptian Hieroglyphics [Easy lessons in Egyptian hieroglyphics with sign list]
• Editore: New York : Dover Publications, 1983.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1983
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0486213943
• ISBN 13: 9780486213941
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: Very Good
• Tipo di libro: Book

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Riassunto

Budge gives the history of hieroglyphic writing, its evolution into hieratic and demotic scripts, and the fascinating tale of its decipherment by Young, Champollion, Åkerblad, and others.

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To read Egyptian one used to have to be philologist, orientalist and cryptographer at once; readers today may thank 200 years' labor by Egyptologists from Barthelmy to Budge for the privilege of being able to read and study hieroglyphic texts much as one studies any foreign language, The student no longer need compare pictographs with inscriptions in Coptic and in Greek on old stones and tablets: this basic guide to the Egyptian language, first published in 1910 and now available for the first time in paperback, remains the standard introduction by perhaps the most prolific, erudite Egyptologist of the century.