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Egyptian Language and Hieroglyphics

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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 US$159.50


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This volume contains hitherto unpublished talatat scenes from the temple Rwd-Mnw, matched from blocks in the concession of the Akhanaten Temple Project.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 US$50.00, Our Price US$9.98


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. Price US$120.00


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 ...


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 US$45.00, Our Price US$14.98


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 ...
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Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment
by Richard Parkinson
Publication to accompany a major 1999 exhibition at the British Museum celebrating the bicentenary of the Stone's discovery, and including a selective catalogue of the exhibits. It also examines the wider issues of script and writing in ancient Egypt and beyond, for example, the relationship between hieroglyphs and art, the social prestige of literacy, and the practical aspects of writing (scibal exquipment and training). Other issues in ...
Paperback. Price US$29.95

The Temple of Khonsu. Volume II: Scenes and Inscriptions in the Court and the First Hypostyle Hall
The Epigraphic Survey
This volume completes the record of the forecourt and main hypostyle hall of the temple of Khons in Karnak, by the Chicago Epigraphic Survey. We now at last possess a full and accurate record of the works of Ramesses XI and Herihor there, plus a whole ...
Hardback. Price US$115.00

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 US$110.00


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 grammar. Gunn, ...
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