Hieroglyphs (24 page)

33

104

forgeries
109–10

Hieroglyphica
86

French Institute (Institut

Hor
104

Français d’Archéologie

Horapollo
86

Orientale) 98, 100

Horemhab
79, 81

Horus
9, 12, 56

G

Huggins, C.
99

human face, in signs
39

games (sounds and signs)

hymns
30, 65–7,
65
, 106

62–5

Gardiner, A.
93–4, 99

Gebel Barkal
35

I

Gebelein
49

idealized images
57–8

125

ideograms
22–5

Late Egyptian
25, 26, 29–30, 94

Imhotep
84

Late Middle Egyptian
25, 26

imitators
35–7

Late Period
103, 118–19

indefinite article
33–4

learning opportunities
107–9

Ineb-Hedj
9

lector-priests
51, 60–1

inflected words
28

Lepsius, R.
98

Inscribe
100

Letters of Hekanakht
78

Institut Français d’Archéologie

Letters to the Dead
101

Orientale (French

lexicographers
96

Institute)
98, 100

line setters
70

Internet (web)
100, 105,

linear hieratic
26

108

literacy
50–5, 80

Ipi
78

loan (borrowed) words
29–30,

Iraq
13

33

Isis
56–7

Luxor
59

Islam
32

Itj-Tawy
72

M

Maat
53, 68, 85

phs

J

MacScribe
100

Manley, B.
94

ogly

Junge, F.
95

Manuelian, P. Der
109

Hier

K

markers, verbal
34

materials
12–13

Kagemni
46,
46

mathematical texts
82–3

Karnak
59, 83, 97

meaning signs
7, 22–3

kas
51, 58, 59

medical texts
82

Kharga Oasis
2

Medinet Habu
109

Khentkaues
43

medunetjer
18

Khnum
65–6

Memphis
9, 18, 30, 72

Khnumhotep
45

Memphite Theology
62

Kircher, A.
87

Menes ‘The Founder’
17

Kitchen, K.
92–3

Meroe
35

Kubisch, S.
49

Meroitic
35, 36, 37

Mesopotamia
5, 13–14

L

Middle Egyptian
22, 25, 26,

labels
6–7, 9–10,
9

28–30, 33, 62, 110

landscapes, rock pictures

Middle Kingdom
28, 60, 72,

4–6

85, 104, 118–19

language studies
91–5

see also
Coffin Texts

126

Mirgissa
61

Nubian
30, 35, 62, 89

Misri-ni-we
97

numerical signs
6

modern hieroglyphs
98–9,

109–10

O

Möller, G.
105

Old Coptic
31

Montuhotep, stela
54
, 55

Old Egyptian
25, 28, 94

monumental texts
18, 25, 28,

Old Kingdom
27, 50, 64, 72,

30, 50, 94

118

see also
stelae; tombs

Onomastica
82

mood (verbs)
29, 33

onomatopoeia
67

museums
108

orientation of texts
45

Mut
66

Osiris
27, 66, 85, 102

N

Osiris Chapels
100

ostraka
77, 105

Naga ed-Deir
49

owl hieroglyph
39, 73,
73
, 86

names
56–60

ownership
8–12

Napatan kings
35

Oxford University Press
99

Napoleon
87

Naqada II culture
4, 6

Index

Narmer Palette
11

P

Nasser (Lake)
37

painters
70

Nebwenenef
66

Palermo Stone
27

necropolis areas
50, 102

papyrus/papyri
12–13, 27,

see also
Saqqara

71–2, 74, 81, 82, 105

Neith
40–1, 102

particles (special words)
34

Nekau II
110

Paser
66, 81

Nekhen (Hierakonpolis)
5–6,

Pashedu
46,
47

12

Pepi II (King)
76, 104

Neolithic Period
102

Persian Period
31, 102

Netjerykhet (Djoser)
84

Philae
31, 86, 90

New Kingdom
23, 30, 72, 77,

phonetic signs
20–2, 63

81, 82, 118

phonograms
7

see also
Book of

Piankh (General)
74, 76

What is in the

Plas, D. van der
100

Underworld

Plutarch
20

Niankhkhnum
45

Polotsky, H.
95

Nile Valley
1, 4, 50

Posener, G.
93

Nofret
41,
42

pottery vessels
7

nouns
23, 30, 33

power
8–12, 60–2

127

power-decoration
104

reed brushes and pens
71–3

Predynastic Period
4, 6, 7, 12,

registers
45

13, 118

reliefs
71

priests
51, 60–1

Renaissance Period
74

printing
98–100

Rhind Mathematical Papyrus

pronunciation
19, 31–2

82

Prophecy of Neferti
85

rhythm
32

proportion
48–50

rituals
11, 27, 51–2, 60–2

‘provincial’ art and writing

rock pictures
2–6,
4

53–5

Roman Period
28, 31, 61, 68,

pseudo-verbal constructions

118–19

28

Rosetta Stone
31, 87, 89, 91,

Ptah
17, 61

103

Ptolemaic-Roman Period
28,

Rougé, E. de
92

31–2, 61, 62, 68, 103, 118–19

punctuation
23, 37

puns
63–4, 67–9

S

Pyramid Texts
25, 26, 27, 28,

Sacy, A. S. de
89

phs

58, 92

Sahara
2

pyramids
27, 36, 84–5

Sahidic
33

ogly

Saı¨s
30, 101, 102

Hier

Q

Saite Period
31

Saqqara
12, 42,
46
, 85

Qasr Ibrim
37

Saqqara Technology
100

Qenherkhopshef
77

Sat-Hathor
43

Satire of the Trades
80, 81

R

savannah areas
2, 4

racism
61

scarabs
110

Rahotep
41,
42

scribes
61, 70–85,
79

raised relief
71

script
17–37,
21–2
,
32
,
36
,

Ramesses II
66, 97

73

Ramesseum
60

sculptors
70–1

Re
27, 56–7, 66

sculpture
41–2

reading (literacy)
50–5, 80

seal impressions
12–13

rebuses
67

seated man hieroglyph
72

Recueil de travaux relatifs à la

Second Intermediate Period

philologie et à

53,
54
, 118–19

l’archéologie égyptiennes

‘Second Tense’
95

et assyriennes
92

Sed-festival
10

128

semograms
7

Montuhotep
54
, 55

Senenmut
67

Nebwenef
66

Senet
100

Paser
66

Senrosret I
104

Rosetta Stone
30, 87, 89,

sentences
33–6

103

serekh
7, 9, 10

Seru
43–5,
44

Seru, stela
43–5,
44

Step Pyramid
27, 84–5

Seth
96

stonemasons
70

Sethe, Kurt
92

Strabo
86

Setne Khaemwese
62

Sudan
35

Shabako
62

Sumer
13

Sheshonq III
104

Sumerian language
14

Sirius
15

sunk relief
71

sistra
40

symmetry
42, 43

slaves
79

syntax
31, 32, 35

Smenkhare
104

synthetic pattern (word order)

Smith, S. T.
110

28–9

Snoferu (King)
85

Sobek
65–6, 102

Index

Society for the Promotion of

T

Christian Knowledge
99

Tanis Sign Papyrus
81

Sopdet
15

taxes
16

sound and meaning signs

Tebtunis papyri
105

22–5

Tell el-Amarna
106

sound games
67

Tell el-Balamun
104

sound signs
7, 20–3

tense (verbs)
19, 29, 33, 34,

space probe
107

94–5

specialist studies
96–7

texts
40, 41, 42

speech-balloons
45–6

Thebes
60, 72, 74, 101, 108–9

spelling
28, 49

see also
Deir el-Medina

spells
27, 57, 60, 61, 103

Theinhardt font
99

Sphinx
110

Theodosius (Emperor)
86

Stargate
110

Third Intermediate Period

statues
41–2,
42
, 67, 103–4

118–19

status
5, 8–12, 52, 53

Thoth
62, 103

stelae
51, 55

Thutmose III
59, 84

Abydos
9, 11

Titus
40

Akhenaten
60

Tiye
104

Canopus Decree
31,
88

Tomb Robbery trials
101

129

tombs
5–12, 50–1, 57

verbs
23–4, 29, 33, 34, 95

Amenemhet
39

Verhoeven, U.
105

Ay
106

voice (verbs)
33

Horemhab
79,
79

vowels
19, 20

Kagemni
46,
46

vulture sign
86–7

Khnumhotep
45

Nebwenenef
66

W

Nekhen
5–6

wadis
4, 5

Niankhkhnum
45

web (Internet)
100, 105, 108

Nofretari
109

Wedjahorresne
102

Pashedu
46,
47

Werirenptah
42–3

Tell el-Amarna
106

Western Desert
2

Werirenptah
43

WinScribe
100

translations
35, 36, 62, 105–7,

Wisdom Texts
76

108

word order
28–9, 41–2

transliteration
20, 35, 36, 37

word plays
62–9

transposition in phrases
35

Wörterbuch
(Erman)
92

triconsonantal signs
22

writing, origins
1–16

phs

Tutankhamun
104

typesetting
98–9

ogly

Y

Hier

U

Young, T.
89, 90

Ur
13

Z

ushabtis
109

Uweinat
2

Zeitschrift fur Ägyptische

Sprache
92, 99, 119

Zettel
92

V

Zikri, A.
94

Valley of the Kings
76–7

Zoega, G.
89

variation, aesthetic
48–50

Zoser, Step Pyramid
27, 84–5

130

• Contents
  
• Acknowledgements
  
• List of illustrations
  
• Chapter 1 The origins of writingin Egypt
  
• Chapter 2 Hieroglyphic scriptand Egyptian language
  
• Chapter 3 Hieroglyphs and art
  
• Chapter 4 ‘I know you, I knowyour names’Coffin Texts, Spell 407
  
• Chapter 5 Scribes and everyday writing
  
• Chapter 6 The decipherment of Egyptian
  
• Chapter 7 Hieroglyphs in themodern world
  
• Notes
  
• Chronology
  
• Further reading
  
• Index