Primer book
Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture is a 1992 primer on Egyptian hieroglyphs written by English archaeologist Richard H. Wilkinson.The book was written from the viewpoint of seeing hieroglyphs in the context of their use in iconography of sculpture, monuments, reliefs, tomb reliefs, literature, specifically the corpus of The Book of the Dead versions for various deceased Egyptians, and other areas.
The book is arranged sequentially with the 26 categories of Gardiner's Sign List. Each entry is a detailed write-up, and a facing page of one to six graphic or photo examples, elucidating the hieroglyphs usage.
Hippopotamus hieroglyph
[edit]The
hippopotamus, Gardiner E25,
shows a "
Faience hippopotamus, Meir, 12th Dynasty."
[1] The photo is a small statuette, the hippo skin covered with large lined
lotus buds, and lotus blossoms.
The less common
Follower Sign, Gardiner T18,
uses three examples, the first being from the Tomb of
Sennedjem, Thebes, 19th Dynasty, and shows the
barque of
Ra and the main iconography of the
Follower Sign, Ra as
seated God, and the
Steering Oar (hieroglyph) at rear.
[2]"Clenched Hand" from the palette corpus
[edit]
- ^ Reading Egyptian Art, Hippopotamus, deb, E25, p. 70-71
- ^ Reading Egyptian Art, Follower Sign, shemset, T18 p. 186-187
- ^ Reading Egyptian Art, Clenched Hand, khefa D49, p. 54-55
- Wilkinson, Richard H., Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture, c 1992, 1994, Thames and Hudson; abbreviated Index, 224 pp. {softcover, ISBN 0-500-27751-6}
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