Sacred Signs - Hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt

Penelope Wilson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

144 Seiten

2003
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-280299-6 (ISBN)

Titel ist leider vergriffen;
keine Neuauflage

Artikel merken

Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. In this study, Penelope Wilson explores the cultural significance of the script with an emphasis on previously neglected areas such as cryptography, the continuing decipherment post-Champollion, and the powerful fascination hieroglyphs still hold for us today.

heiroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all powerful force in communicating the messages of ancient Egyptian culture for over three thousand years; used as monumental art, as a means of identifying Egyptianess, and for rarified communication with the gods. In this exciting new study, Penelope Wilson explores the cultural significance of the script with an emphasis on previously neglected areas such as cryptography, the continuing decipherment post-Champollion, and the powerful fascination hieroglyphs still hold for us today.

Penelope Wilson is Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Durham, and Field Director for the Egyptian Exploration Society Mission to Sais in Egypt. She worked as Assistant Keeper in the Department of Antiquities in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, for seven years.

1. The origins of writing in Egypt; 2. Hieroglyphic script and the Egyptian language; 3. Hieroglyphs and art; 4. 'I Know You, I Know Your Names'; 5. Scribes and everyday writing; 6. The decipherment of Egyptian; 7. Hieroglyphs in the modern world; Notes; Chronology; Further Reading; Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2003
Zusatzinfo	17 line and halftone
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Paläografie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-280299-2 / 0192802992
ISBN-13	978-0-19-280299-6 / 9780192802996
Zustand	Neuware