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Egyptian Language and Hieroglyphics

Kulturhandbuch Ägyptens: Wortschatz der Pharaonen in Sachgruppen
by Rainer Hannig and Petra Vomberg
Hannig and Vomberg's new and attractively presented dictionary of Egyptian hieroglyphs (translated into German) presents the vocabulary according to themes associated with the culture of ancient Egypt. Amongst the many classifications are: personal names, flora and fauna, the weather, materials, cities and the countryside, anatomy, emotions, trade, virtues and vices, music, sexuality, sports, religion, art and architecture, mathematics, medicine, ...
Hardback. Price GB £65.00

Agyptisches Worterbuch Teil 1
edited by Rainer Hannig
This monumental dictionary presents over 100,000 fully referenced entries, arranged topographically, which have been gathered from Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period texts. The aim is to publish `all important references'. The dictionary translates the entries into German but the references `are more or less independent of language' and, as such, this dictionary will undoubtedly prove invaluable to Egyptologists. In order to avoid the ...
Hardback. Price GB £75.00

Akhenaten Temple Project, Volume 2: Rwd-mnw and Inscriptions
by Donald Redford
This volume contains hitherto unpublished talatat scenes from the temple Rwd-Mnw, matched from blocks in the concession of the Akhanaten Temple Project. As well as these reliefs, the volume contains five papers on previously published material: 'A.J. Spalinger contributes a study of an inscription published but not commented on in the first volume of the Akhenaten Temple Project. J.K. Hoffmeier and R.J. Leprohon write thematic studies on scenes ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £30.00, Our Price GB £7.95

Egyptian Stelae in the British Museum from the 13th-17th Centuries: Volume I, Fascicule I:Descriptions
by D. Franke and edited by M. Marée
The scenes and inscriptions of each of the forty-two stelae are described in detail, with full translations, textual notes and explanatory diagrams. Each catalogue entry includes a wide-ranging general commentary on phraseology, formulae and titles, on the importance of each stela in its historical and social context, and on aspects of epigraphy and iconography. Wherever possible, stela owners are identified and family trees given. 288p, 2 ...
Paperback. Not yet published - advance orders taken. Price GB £60.00

Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian
by R O Faulkner
This concise dictionary of 'Middle Egyptian' - that phase of the Ancient Egyptian language which had the widest general application - contains 5400 carefully selected words most likely to be encountered by students and scholars in the course of their regular work on Egyptian texts. Each entry gives the most common hieroglyphic form of the word, accompanied by its transliteration, translation, references to texts where it occurs, its less usual ...
Hardback. Price GB £26.00

The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah: Grand Strategy in the 13th Century BC
by Colleen Manassa
The Great Karnak Inscription of Merneptah's 5th regnal year, the longest surviving continuous monumental text from Egypt, describes the combined Libyan and Sea People invasion of Egypt c.1208 BCE. This new study, the first complete commentary on this long but unfortunately damaged text, begins with a translation of the text, accompanied by detailed notes. The study considers specific military aspects of the inscription alongside its religious ...
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £35.00, Our Price GB £9.95

Late Egyptian Grammar: 2nd English Edition Friedrich Junge's pioneering introduction to the grammar of Late Egyptian, the language of the New Kingdom, fills a longstanding gap in teaching works for Ancient Egyptian. The English translation of the second German edition makes the work available to a wide audience. The author devotes special
Junge, Friedrich
Friedrich Junge's pioneering introduction to the grammar of Late Egyptian, the language of the New Kingdom, fills a longstanding gap in teaching works for Ancient Egyptian. The English translation of the second German edition makes the work available to a wide audience. The author devotes special attention to the language of papyri and ostraca the texts of everyday life and uses examples and exercises to familiarise the reader with the major text ...
Paperback. Price GB £30.00

The Temple of Khonsu. Volume I: Scenes of King Herihor in the Court
The Epigraphic Survey
The present stately folio with its accompanying text (translating all the texts in the plates) is the first-fruits of 45 years of intermittent work by the redoubtable Chicago team, alongside their work at Medinet Habu and elsewhere in Karnak. In ...
Hardback. Price GB £82.50

Studies in Egyptian Syntax
by Battiscombe Gunn, edited by R.S. Simpson
Battiscombe Gunn's Studies in Egyptian Syntax (1924) is one of the fundamental works in Egyptian linguistics. the book, which has long been unobtainable, was published when the author was working for Alan H. Gardiner, who was preparing his renowned Egyptian Grammar (1st Edition 1927, 3rd edn 1957). Gardiner perceived the significance of Gunn's work with its major discoveries, and he incorporated a number of Gunn's ideas in his own ...
Hardback. Price GB £60.00

Texts from the Baboon and Falcon Galleries: Demotic Hieroglyphic and Greek Inscriptions from the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara
by J.D. Ray
This volume features all the graffiti from the Baboon and Falcon galleries at the Sacred Animal Necropolis, North Saqqara, excavated by the Egypt Exploration Society by Bryan Emery between 1966 and 1971. The graffiti include dedications to the god Imhotep with an important historical content, and masons' marks which show some of the construction history of the galleries. There is also a Greek graffito listing the contents of dreams or visions, ...
Paperback. Price GB £90.00