First Steps in Egyptian Hieroglyphics A Book for Beginners

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Anyone curious about hieroglyphics will appreciate this classic primer. This practical grammar comprises lists of frequently used signs and determinatives, a vocabulary of about 500 words, a series of 31 texts and extracts (with interlinear transliteration and word-for-word translation), and a few untransliterated and untranslated texts (with glossary), to be worked out independently.

Preface

Part I. Introduction

Egyptian Writing

(5)

Alphabetic signs

(2)

Syllabic signs

(3)

Determinatives

(11)

Pronouns

(2)

Nouns

(2)

The Article

(4)

Adjectives

(2)

Numbers

(2)

Measures

(1)

Time, divisions of

(1)

The Year

(1)

The Verb

(6)

The Adverb

(1)

Prepositions and Conjunctions

(3)

Particles

(2)

A list of common words to be learnt

(23)

Egyptian Gods and Goddesses

(8)

Part II. Texts with interlinear transliteration and word for word translation

Extracts from the Prisse Papyrus

(7)

See Prisse d'Avennes, Facsimile d'un papyrus egyptien en car zcieres hieratiques, Paris, 1847 ; and Virey, Etudes sur l Papyrus Prisse, Paris, 1887.

Extracts from the pyramid texts of Unas and Teta

(9)

See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux, tomm. III, IV and V, Paris, 1882, 1883, 1884.

Inscription from the tomb of Heru-khuf at Aswan

(4)

See Schiaparelli, Una tomba Egiziana (Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, anno CCLXXXIX., Ser. 4a, Classe di Scienzie Morali, t. X. Roma, 1893, pp. 22---53).

Inscription from the stele of Abu

(4)

See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux, tom. III, p. 115 f.

Inscription of Ata

103

(1)

Inscription from the tomb of Khnemu-Hetep at Beni-hasan

104

(2)

See Newberry, Beni Hasan, pt.I. Lond., 1893, pl. 41.

Inscriptions from the tomb of Ameni-em-hat at Beni-Hasan

106

(8)

See Newberry, op. cit., pll. 8, 11, etc.

Stories of the reigns of Seneferu and Khufu

114

(12)

For the hieratic text, transcript, etc., see Erman, Die Marchen des Papyrus Westcar, Berl., 1890, pll. 6, 7.

The Life of Amasis, the naval officer, as told by himself

126

(12)

See Lepsius, Denkmaler, Abth. III, Bl. 11, and for the last translation by Brugsch see Egypt under the Pharaohs, vol. I, p. 249 ff.

The Harper's Lament

138

(3)

See Stern, Aegyptische Zeitschrift, 1873, p. 60.

The Battle of Megiddo

141

(15)

See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux, tom. II, p. 51 ff.

Speech of Amen-Ra to Thothmes III.

156

(12)

See Mariette, Karnak, Leipzig, 1875, plate II; and Brugsch, Geschichte Aegyptens, Leipz., 1877, p. 352 ff.

Address of Thothmes III to Osiris (Book of the Dead, Chap. CLIV)

168

(4)

See Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. I. Bl. 179.

Specimens of the Maxims of Ani

172

(7)

See Chabas, L'Egyptologie, Chalons-sur-Saone, 1874 Amelineau, La Morale egyptienne, Paris, 1892.

Hymn to Osiris

179

(10)

See Ledrain, Monuments Egyptiens, Pl. XXII ff.; and Chabas, Revue Archeologique, 1857, p. 65.

Inscription from the Stele of Tehuti-nefer

189

(5)

See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux, tom. III, p. 122, tom. IV, p. 125.

Inscription from the Stele of Tchanni

194

(2)

See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux, tom. IV, p. 130.

Inscription from the Stele of Sesh

196

(4)

See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux, tom. IV, p. 127.

Inscription from a sepulchral Stele

200

(2)

See Piehl, Recueil de Travaux, tom. I, p. 197.

Inscription from the Stele of Amen-hetep

202

(2)

See Piehl, Recueil de Travaux, tom. II, p. 124.

Hymn to the god of the Nile

204

(8)

See Birch, Select Papyri, pl. XX f.; Maspero, Hymne au Nil, Paris, 1868.

Examples of the Proverbs of Tuauu-f-se-Kharthai

212

(6)

See Birch, Select Papyri, pll. XV---XX, CXXVIII---CXXXIV; and Maspero, Du Genre Epistolaire, Paris, 1872.

The Destruction of Mankind

218

(13)

See Lefebure, Tombeau de Seti I, part IV, pll. 15--18; Brugsch, Die neue Weltordnung, Berlin, 1881; Naville, Trans. Soc. Bibl. Arch., vol. IV, p. I ff., vol. VIII, p. 412 ff.; Wiedemann, Die Religion der alten Aegypter, p. 32 ff.

The War of Rameses II. against the Kheta

231

(4)

See Guieyesse, Recueil de Travaux, tom. VIII, pp. 136, 139.

Hymn to Ra (Book of the Dead, Chap. XV)

235

(4)

See Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. I. Bl. 16.

Numbers from the papyrus of Rameses III.

239

(2)

See Birch, Facsimile of an Egyptian Hieratic Papyrus, London, 1876.

The Legend of Ra and Isis

241

(16)

See Pleyte and Rossi, Papyrus de Turin, pll. 31, 77, 131---8; Lefebure, Aegyptische Sprache, 1883, p. 27; Wiedemann, Die Religion, p. 29 f.

From the Monument of Uah-ab-Ra em khu

257

(1)

See Piehl, Recueil de Travaux, tom. III, p. 28.

Texts from the sarcophagus of Patepep

257

(4)

See Bergmann, Recueil de Travaux, tom. III, pp. 148---152.

The Legend of the Seven Years' Famine in Egypt

261

(8)

See Brugsch, Die biblischen sieben Jahre der Hungersnoth, Leipzig, 1891.

From an Inscription of Ptolemy V.

269

(6)

See Bouriant, Recueil de Travaux, tom. VI, p. I ff.

Part III. Egyptian Texts untransliterated and untranslated

275

(16)

Glossary

291

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