Title: Hieroglyphic Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Literature of the Middle Kingdom
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0520275462
ISBN 13: 9780520275461
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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This book offers a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the oldest known recorded languages - Hieroglyphic Egyptian. Unlike other approaches, it is geared toward learning to read one of the masterpieces of Middle Egyptian literature, the story "Shipwrecked Sailor," written around 2200 bce. The text's eighteen lessons-organized around such topics as the body, flora, fauna, titles, administration, religion, sexuality, and warfare - cover all the basic grammar and syntax of Middle Egyptian. The book includes exercises for each chapter, sign lists, Egyptian/English and English/Egyptian dictionaries defining all the words and phrases used in the lessons, and a new edition of the tale "Shipwrecked Sailor" with facing commentary. Although the overall approach is literary, "Hieroglyphic Egyptian" can also be used as an introduction to reading other material, such as biographical inscriptions, religious texts, historical annals, and mathematical or medical papyri. The text is suitable for classroom use, as well as for those who want to learn independently.

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Daniel L. Selden, Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and co-editor of Innovations of Antiquity, has written widely on classical literatures of the Mediterranean and Near East.

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