Princeton University Press, 1992. — 518 p. This is an anthropological study of the role of hieroglyphic writing in the prehispanic Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya states. First, Joyce Marcus compares the four systems with regard to eight major themes: calendrics, the naming of nobles, the naming of places, royal marriages, accession to the throne, divine ancestors, warfare,...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — 518 p. This is an anthropological study of the role of hieroglyphic writing in the prehispanic Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya states. First, Joyce Marcus compares the four systems with regard to eight major themes: calendrics, the naming of nobles, the naming of places, royal marriages, accession to the throne, divine ancestors, warfare,...
Assimil, 2021. — 131 p. — (Les cahiers d'écriture). Ce cahier d’écriture a été spécialement conçu pour vous permettre d’apprendre à tracer les hiéroglyphes les plus complexes. Les signes imprimés de la classification de Gardiner servent de modèle et sont reproduits de façon schématique et cursive pour une écriture plus fluide. Pas à pas, crayon en main, vous vous entraînez à...
Charles E. Nichols, 2008. — 154 p. This book is written for high school students and beginners. It avoids using complicated grammar. The examples are kept simple. In many cases the hieroglyphs are "unrolled" - each hieroglyphic word is presented to the student one hieroglyph at a time, just as we write an English word one letter at a time. Each hieroglyph is treated as if it...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 415 p. — (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 46). Script Switching in Roman Egypt studies the hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Old Coptic manuscripts which evidence the conventions governing script use, the domains of writing those scripts inhabited, and the shift of scripts between those domains, to elucidate the obsolescence of...
Walter de Gruyter, 2021. — 416 p. — (Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete 46). Script Switching in Roman Egypt studies the hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Old Coptic manuscripts which evidence the conventions governing script use, the domains of writing those scripts inhabited, and the shift of scripts between those domains, to elucidate the obsolescence of...
Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2023. — 259 p. — (ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ 3). Il volume raccoglie i contributi di alcuni tra i maggiori specialisti italiani di quest’ambito di studi, che in Italia vanta una lunga tradizione. L’obiettivo dell’opera è duplice: da una parte, ricostruire il quadro complessivo dei rapporti che sono intercorsi fra i sistemi di scrittura attestati a Creta e a Cipro...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 349 p. Writing from Invention to Decipherment contains a wealth of global scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia, Central America, and the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created scripts such as the Rongorongo from Easter Island, the Caroline Island scripts, as well as the alphabet. The aim is to dig into the...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — 528 p. This is an anthropological study of the role of hieroglyphic writing in the prehispanic Aztec, Mixtec, Zapotec, and Maya states. First, Joyce Marcus compares the four systems with regard to eight major themes: calendrics, the naming of nobles, the naming of places, royal marriages, accession to the throne, divine ancestors, warfare,...
Scottish Academic Press, 1981. — 168 p. Part I: General introduction and background to hieroglyphic writing in Egypt and to the principles of picture writing Part II: Grammar, exercises and vocabularies
12. Auflage — Philipp von Zabern, 2012. — 132 S. — (Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt). Die Faszination, die seit Jahrtausenden von den ägyptischen Pyramiden ausgeht, ist ungebrochen und erreicht ein stetig wachsendes Publikum. Der Erfolg dieses bereits in 11 Auflagen erschienen Klassikers bestätigt das in besonderer Weise: Er ist eine exzellente Einführung in das Lesen...
12. Auflage — Philipp von Zabern, 2012. — 132 S. — (Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt). Die Faszination, die seit Jahrtausenden von den ägyptischen Pyramiden ausgeht, ist ungebrochen und erreicht ein stetig wachsendes Publikum. Der Erfolg dieses bereits in 11 Auflagen erschienen Klassikers bestätigt das in besonderer Weise: Er ist eine exzellente Einführung in das Lesen...
Philipp von Zabern, 2015. — 177 S. Die Herkunft des Alphabets ist ein uraltes Problem der Menschheit, über das spätesten seit dem klassischen Altertum nachgedacht wird. Ganze Bibliotheken sind über das Thema geschrieben worden, ohne dass die Diskussion zu einer allgemein akzeptierten, unangreifbar bewiesenen Lösung gekommen ist. Karl-Theodor Zauzich weist nach 40-jähriger...
Philipp von Zabern, 2015. — 177 S. Die Herkunft des Alphabets ist ein uraltes Problem der Menschheit, über das spätesten seit dem klassischen Altertum nachgedacht wird. Ganze Bibliotheken sind über das Thema geschrieben worden, ohne dass die Diskussion zu einer allgemein akzeptierten, unangreifbar bewiesenen Lösung gekommen ist. Karl-Theodor Zauzich weist nach 40-jähriger...
Thames & Hudson, 1992. — 140 p. Hieroglyphs, the ingenious picture writing of the ancient Egyptians, are not only a beautiful and fascinating record of a bygone civilization, but also a treasury of puns, double meanings and aesthetic delight. Their pictorial character, often obscured today by concentration on literal sense, engaged the Egyptians as much as it dos a modern...
Museum Tours Press, 2013. — 140 p. This paperback version of the Hieroglyphic Sign List was developed as an outgrowth of our popular, pocket-sized Sign List book. By increasing its size we were able to overcome most of the limitations of the smaller book. It is not just a larger version of the spiral bound book. It has been completely re-edited and updated. Definitions are more...
J.J. Augustin, 1935. — 34 S. — (Leipziger ägyptologische Studien 3). Die ägyptische Schrift ist ein Gebiet, dem die ganz besondere Liebe Sethes gegolten und mit dem er sich daher immer von neuem beschäftigt hat. Wer seine Arbeiten auf diesem Felde kennt, darf nicht erwarten, in dem kleinen Vortrag, der auf den folgenden Seiten zum Abdruck gelangt ist, etwas grundsätzlich Neues...
Paul Åströms Förlag, 1974. — 80 p. — (Studies in Mediterranean archaeology 31.2; Studies in the Cypro-Minoan scripts 2). Chaque publication nouvelle d’un document chypro-minoen a compris, en général, une étude des signes qui étaient relevés dans cette inscription. De ce fait, on s’est trouvé en face de plusieurs répertoires partiels, utilisant des numérotations de signes...
University of California Press, 2007. — 84 p. The Egyptian hieroglyphic script is one of the most beautiful, fascinating, and expressive writing systems ever invented. In Ancient Egypt, only an elite few could read and write hieroglyphs, but now you too can recognize and write a selection of names, titles, descriptions, sayings, greetings―even insults! For the ancient...
Librio, 2022. — 92 p. "Eurêka!" s'exclamait Champollion, le 14 septembre 1822, après avoir percé le mystère des hiéroglyphes grâce à la pierre de Rosette. Ces dessins, étranges et harmonieux, ont le don de nous fasciner encore aujourd'hui. Voici un guide efficace pour comprendre le système d'écriture hiérglyphique et apprendre à déchiffrer dans les musées ou sur site des noms...
2nd Edition — Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 181 p. The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close...
2nd Edition — Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 181 p. The languages of the ancient world and the mysterious scripts, long undeciphered, in which they were encoded have represented one of the most intriguing problems of classical archaeology in modern times. This celebrated account of the decipherment of Linear B in the 1950s by Michael Ventris was written by his close...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 374 p. — (Cambridge Classical Studies). Decades after Michael Ventris deciphered Linear B and showed that its language was Greek, nearly one-sixth of its syllabic signs' sound-values are still unknown. This book offers a new approach to establishing these undeciphered signs' possible values. Analysis of Linear B's structure and usage not only...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 321 p. — (Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems 3). By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian,...
Oxbow Books, 2019. — 240 p. — (Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems 1). Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (CREWS) is a project funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 677758), and based in the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge....
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 256 p. — (Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems 4). Much focus in research on alphabetic writing systems has been on correspondences between graphemes and phonemes. The present study sets out to complement these by examining the linguistic denotation of markers of word division in several ancient Northwest Semitic (NWS) writing systems,...
Archaeopress, 2015. — 216 p. — (Archaeopress Pre-Columbian Archaeology 6). This research explores the development of the Maya writing system in Middle–Late Formative and Early Classic period (700 BC–AD 450) Mesoamerica. It seeks to correlate script development with interregional interaction and diachronic changes in material culture, and proposes a new methodological template...
Peeters, 2014. — 647 p. — (Publications De L'institut Orientaliste De Louvain 62). This collection of essays deals with the phenomenon of allography, taken in the sense of the practice of writing a language in the script of another language. Although by no means all texts highlighted in the essays are of a religious character, they are written in the scripts that are connected...
Uppsala University, 2021. — 272 p. — (Runrön 24). Documentation Documentation of Runic Inscriptions - James E. Knirk (Neu-)Lesungen von Runeninschriften und ihre Folgen für die frühgermanische Grammatik - Roland Schuhmann Documenting the Scandinavian Runic Inscriptions of the British Isles: Confessions of a Field Runologist - Michael P. Barnes Arbeiten mit Runica manuscripta:...
Almqvist & Wiksell Internat., 1990. — 184 p. — (Acta Academiae Regiae Gustavi Adolphi 59). This is a monograph on the development and geographical distribution of runic forms in the older "futhark" (C.200-750 A.D.). Runic forms employed during this period in Scandinavia, on the Continent, in England and in Frisia are compared. The investigation shows that the early Scandinavian...
University of Texas Press, 1975. — 239 p. Studies in Upplandic Runography is a detailed treatment of the runic inscriptions from the province of Uppland, Sweden, where runic art reached a high point in A.D. 1200 and where runic inscriptions are most numerous. Most of the runic monuments discussed are from the eleventh century, an important period when Sweden was making the...
Walter de Gruyter, 1996. — 861 S. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 10.2). Schrift und Schriftlichkeit sind aus modernen Gesellschaften nicht wegzudenken. Schriftliche Texte regeln unser Leben. Das erfolgreiche Lernen von Lesen und Schreiben und das Ausmaß, in dem Individuen an Schriftlichkeitsprozessen partizipieren können, bestimmen wesentlich ihre...
Walter de Gruyter, 1994. — 970 S. — (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft 10.1). Schrift und Schriftlichkeit sind aus modernen Gesellschaften nicht wegzudenken. Schriftliche Texte regeln unser Leben. Das erfolgreiche Lernen von Lesen und Schreiben und das Ausmaß, in dem Individuen an Schriftlichkeitsprozessen partizipieren können, bestimmen wesentlich ihre...
ILIM Press, 2023. — 130 p. This book deals with the basic linguistic principles of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in keeping with the various branches of modern linguistics. Moreover, a quantity of linguistic procedures of Egyptian hieroglyphs have been scrutinized and described concisely in this book. In fact, ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs have been analyzed here as the...
University of California Press/British Museum, 1989. — 68 p. — (Reading the Past). Maya glyphic writing is one the most complex scripts ever devised . From before AD 250 until well after the Spanish conquest Maya Indians of Mexico and Central America used elaborate pictorial signs to record ideas, words and syllables. This book surveys the discovery and partial decipherment of...
Dover Publications, 1975. — 356 p. — (Dover books on the ancient world). The present book is both the summation of Morley's researches and much the best introduction for the student for reading Maya hieroglyphs. Exlremely full in interpretation, including speculation legitimate at the time; very thorough in the exposition of variants and unusual features, with reproductions of...
L'Harmattan, 2022. — 272 p. L'année 2022 célèbre le bicentenaire du déchiffrement des hiéroglyphes égyptiens par Jean-François Champollion en septembre 1822. Mais Champollion représente l'apogée et la conclusion d'une aventure intellectuelle longue de 2000 ans ! Ce livre remarquable retrace l'histoire de ces auteurs sur lesquels les hiéroglyphes égyptiens exercèrent tantôt...
L'Harmattan, 2022. — 272 p. L'année 2022 célèbre le bicentenaire du déchiffrement des hiéroglyphes égyptiens par Jean-François Champollion en septembre 1822. Mais Champollion représente l'apogée et la conclusion d'une aventure intellectuelle longue de 2000 ans ! Ce livre remarquable retrace l'histoire de ces auteurs sur lesquels les hiéroglyphes égyptiens exercèrent tantôt...
Isabella DeCarlo, 2011. — 199 p. — (Learn Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs). Learn Hieroglyphs - Series 1 - Alphabet is the first in a series of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Tutorials. With this first series you will be able to recognize the hieroglyphs comprising the ancient Egyptian alphabet, also known as the uniliteral hieroglyphs or the sound signs. Included for each...
Isabella DeCarlo, 2011. — 252 p. — (Learn Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs). Learn Hieroglyphs - Series 1 - Alphabet is the first in a series of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Tutorials. With this first series you will be able to recognize the hieroglyphs comprising the ancient Egyptian alphabet, also known as the uniliteral hieroglyphs or the sound signs. Included for each...
Trustees of the British Museum, 1990. — 64 p. This book attempts to summarise the general scholarly consensus of views on the early history of alphabetic writing. Inevitably it is necessary to abbreviate and simplify the arguments. Even major issues are often still the subject of dispute. A whole book of over 350 pages has recently been devoted solely to the discussion of early...
Stanford University Press, 1985. — 236 p. To say that writing has as much claim as speech to be treated as language may strike the reader as a statement of the obvious. But the fact is that, although the tide is beginning to turn now, for most of the twentieth century linguistics has almost wholly ignored writing. It is not necessary to accept all the theories of the French...
Chicago: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, 2023. — 352 p. — (ISAC Seminars 14). Traditionally, writing—a graphic, multidimensional form of communication—has been approached as a vehicle for representing, and therefore conveying, the spoken word. Moving beyond this manner of analysis, this volume interrogates writing as a medium that is not simply a handmaiden to oral...
Vittorio Klostermann, 2017. — 354 S. Seit Auffindung 1908 auf Kreta zieht der Diskus von Phaistos wegen seiner spiraligen Beschriftung mit den dekorativen 'Hieroglyphen' die Aufmerksamkeit eines breiten Publikums auf sich. Seine Popularität schlägt sich nieder in zahlreichen Abbildungen, in Repliken und sogar Fernsehsendungen. Als längster kretischer Text des 2. Jahrtausends v....
Verlag Otto Sagner, 1996. — 190 S. — (Slavistische Beiträge 339). Mehrfach wurden in den vergangenen drei Jahrzehnten Jubiläumsfeiern mit kyrillomethodianischem Bezug begangen: so von 1963 bis 1965 die Feiern zum 1100. Jahrestag des Beginns der kyrillomethodianischen Mission; 1969 der 1100. Todestag von Konstantin/Kyrill; 1985 der 1100. Todestag Methods; 1988 das 1000-jährige...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1994. — 155 p. — (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 116). This study investigates the properties of several ancient syllabic and linear segmental scripts to make explicit the aspects of linguistic knowledge they attempt to represent. Some recent experimental work suggests that nonliterate speakers do not have segmental knowledge and that...
Carocci, 2015. — 142 p. Quando e per quali finalità la scrittura fece il proprio ingresso in Grecia? Durante il corso del ii millennio a.C., nel continente greco e sulle isole dell’Egeo si sviluppa una nuova civiltà chiamata “micenea”, dal nome del suo sito più famoso: Micene. Qui, e in altri borghi della Grecia, come Pylos in Messenia, Thebes in Beozia, Volos (l’antica Iolkos)...
Carocci, 2013. — 346 p. Nella Grecia del XVIII secolo a.C. si afferma la civiltà chiamata convenzionalmente “micenea”, dal nome del più importante centro dell’epoca, Micene. Le sue élites politiche, che risiedono nei borghi fortificati dislocati dal Peloponneso alla Tessaglia, parlano una forma dialettale greca molto arcaica, e per la gestione amministrativa del potere usano...
Manuel Porrúa, S.A., 1981. — 205 p. — (Biblioteca Mexicana 58). Casi la totalidad de lo contenido en el presente volumen fue publicado en la sección de Cultura Maya, del tomo X de la Enciclopedia Yucatanense que el Gobierno de Yucatán, jefaturado por el Dr. Francisco Luna Kan, publicó en 1979, después de reeditar los nueve tomos de que constaba la original que, dirigida por el...
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientifícas, Instituto de Filología, 1993. — 473 p. — (Diccionario griego-español: Anejo II). Dos fueron las razones que nos impulsaron a emprender la redaccion del presente Diccionario Micenico. Por un lado, la necesidad cada vez mas patente en el campo de la Micenologia de sustituir el excelente y arquetipico Mycenaeae Graecitatis Lexicon...