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Over 1,000 two-color line drawings, 160 black-and-white photographs
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have just started to study ancient Egypt and for anyone else about to this book is a must. It covers the original hieroglyphic picture then the simplified demotic version. This book covers about 600 of the 700 commonly used 'glyphs'. In the book is brief description on the Rosetta stone which has three versions of the same text (Greek, demotic and Hieroglyphic) which was the key to decoding the Egyptian writing. With most of the hieroglyphs is a picture taken from a ruin to show what they look like. On some of the pages the diagrams are spaced out a bit to much just to thicken the book, but it is good value for the amount of knowledge that you could learn from it.... ;-)
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This book cost me roughly 4 pounds. It was supposed to be a used one but it is in fact new. (Excellent). It is a 1996 edition of a very accurate list of hieroglyphics with phonetic values, photographic reference of where it is to be found, cursive evolution, relation to the object and different meanings in other contests. GREAT BOOK! Thanks.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
more like "The Individual Glyphs of Ancient Egypt"
9 Jan 1999
Format:Hardcover
I am torn regarding this book. While it is an exellent study of the individual signs, covering several stages in the evolution of the particular glyph in hieroglyph, hieratic, and demotic characters, it lacks grammer and even word structure aside from a fraction of a page in the introduction. If you are a student of hieroglyphics in the history of the Egyptian culture this could be a most useful book. It is also entertaining and informative to the casual reader, but a student of Egyptian grammer would do better to look elsewhere. Perhaps to Gardiner's "Egyptian Grammar." Betro's book is not, in my opinion, the "complete handbook" it claims to be.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
A very interesting book!
6 Aug 1998
Format:Hardcover
This is a very interesting book if you are interested in the background and history of each individual hieroglyphic sign. It's a great supplement to introductory books about the ancient Egyptian language - most books only arrange the signs into families or types and don't tell you much about individual signs. If other books about hieroglyphs leave you hungry for more, then this may be the book for you.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Good view of determinatives
6 Nov 2004
Format:Hardcover
This book, while not covering the actual text of the language, covers a very important component of Middle Egyptian: The Determinatives. A lot of words in Middle Egyptian were spelled the same, and the only thing that told them apart was the picture that said what they were. This was also important for showing if something was a statement or a proper name. Very good addition to any hieroglyph book collection!
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