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7 A. H. Gardiner,
Egyptian Grammar
, 3rd edn., Oxford: Griffith
No

Institute, 1979, ix–xvi.

8 N. Grimal, J. Hallof, and D. van der Plas,
Hieroglyphica, Volume I
,
s

Utrecht and Paris: CCER, 1993 with 4,706 signs; extended list in
Hieroglyphica, Volume I
2, Utrecht and Paris: CCER, 2000.

9 P. Wilson,
The Survey of Saïs
(forthcoming) and reports since 1997

in the
Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
.

Chapter 7: Hieroglyphs in the modern world

1 David Hiscock, no. 5, ‘Time Machine: Ancient Egypt and Contemporary Art’, British Museum and Institute of International Visual Arts, 1994.

2 A. J. Spencer,
Excavations at Tell el-Balamun 1995–1998
, London: British Museum Press, 1999, 90.

3 T
ebtunis papyri: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/APIS/ (c
urrent in Summer 2002); Deir el-M
edina online: http://www.uni-

muenchen.de/dem-online/ and go to ‘login’ (c
urrent in Summer 2002).

4 On the skill of Biblical translations, see G. Hammond,
The Making
of the English Bible
, Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1982.

115

5 Miriam Lichtheim,
Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume II: The
New Kingdom
, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976, 96.

6 William Kelly Simpson (ed.),
The Literature of Ancient Egypt
, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1972, 290.

7 Cyril Aldred,
Akhenaten, King of Egypt
, London: Thames & Hudson, 1988, repr. 1991, 241.

8 John L. Foster,
Echoes of Egyptian Voices. An Anthology of Ancient
Egyptian Poetry
, Norman, Oka. University of Okhlahoma Press, 1998, 5–18.

9 P. Der Manuelian, ‘ ‘‘Digital Epigraphy’’ at Giza’,
Egyptian
Archaeology
17 (Autumn 2000), 25–7 and
Journal of the American
Research Center in Egypt
35 (1998), 97–113.

10
Abu Simbel can be seen at http://www.ccer.nl and follow links to

Abu Simbel; the tomb of Nofretari was published in
Atlas of the
Ancient World
by Maris M
ultimedia Limited at http://

www.cominf.ru/maris/ and the tomb ht
tp://www.cominf.ru/

maris/aaw/aawdemo/aawdemo-htm (all c
urrent in Summer
phs

2002).

ogly

Published with the rest of the Cleveland Collection by L. Berman
Hier

with K. Bohac,
Catalogue of Egyptian Art, Cleveland Museum of
Art
, 1999, nos. 510 and 496.

12 Republished with suspicions by W. M. F. Petrie, ‘The First Circuit Round Africa, and the Supposed Record of It’,
Geographical
Journal
, 32 (July to Dec. 1908), 480–5. Unmasked by G. Steindorff,

‘Fakes and Fates of the Egyptian Antiquities’,
Journal of the Walters
Art Gallery, Baltimore
, 10 (1947), 54–5; confirmed by H. de Meulenaere,
Herodotos over de 26ste Dynastie
, Leuven: Universiteit van Leuven, 1951, 62.

13 Goscinny and Uderzo,
Asterix and Cleopatra
, first published 1965.

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Chronology

118

Adapted from J. Baines and J. Malek,
Atlas of Ancient Egypt
, Oxford:
Phaidon, 1980.

119

Further reading

The early state, writing, and its development
Baines, J., ‘Literacy, Social Organization, and the Archaeological Record: The Case of Early Egypt’, in J. Gledhill, B. Bender, and M. T.

Larsen (eds.),
State and Society: The Emergence and Development of
Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization
, London: Unwin Hyman, 1988, 192–214.

Baines, J. and Yoffee, N., ‘Order, Legitimacy, and Wealth in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia’, in G. M. Feinman and J. Marcus (eds.),
Archaic States
, Santa Fe and New Mexico: School of American Research Press, 1998, 199–260.

Parkinson, R. and Quirke, S.,
Papyrus
, London: British Museum, 1995.

Postgate, N., Wang, T., and Wilkinson, T., ‘The Evidence for Early Writing: Utilitarian or Ceremonial?’,
Antiquity
, 69 (1995), 459–80.

The Egyptian language

Allen, J.,
A Middle Egyptian Grammar
, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Collier, M., and Manley, B.,
How to Read Hieroglyphs
, London: British Museum Press, 1998.

Faulkner, R. O.,
A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian
, Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1962.

Gardiner, A. H.,
Egyptian Grammar
, 3rd edn., Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1957.

120

Hannig, R.,
Großer Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch–Deutsch
, Mainz: Phillip von Zabern, 1995.

Johnson, J. H.,
Thus Wrote ‘Onchsheshonqy. An Introductory Grammar
of Demotic
’, 2nd edn., Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1991.

Junge, F.,
Late Egyptian Grammar
, Oxford: Griffith Institute, 2001.

Loprieno, A.,
Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction
, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Pestman, P.,
The New Papyrological Primer
, Leiden: Brill, 1990.

Tait, W. J., ‘Approaches to Demotic Lexicography’, in S. P. Vleeming (ed.),
Aspects of Demotic Lexicography
, Leuven: Peeters, 1987.

Translated anthologies

Lichtheim, M.,
Ancient Egyptian Literature
,
Volume I: The Old and
Middle Kingdom
;
Volume II: The New Kingdom
;
Volume III: The Late
Period
, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973–80.

McDowell, A. G.,
Village Life in Ancient Egypt
, Oxford: Oxford
rthe

University Press, 1999.

r rea

Moran, W. L.,
The Amarna Letters
, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
din

University Press, 1992.

Parkinson, R. B.,
Voices from Ancient Egypt
, London: British Museum Press, 1991.

Wente, E.,
Letters from Ancient Egypt
, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.

Decipherment

Parkinson, R.,
Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
, London: The British Museum, 1999.

Pope, M.,
The Story of Decipherment: From Egyptian Hieroglyphic to
Linear B
, London: Thames & Hudson, 1975.

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