- Hardcover: 349 pages
- Publisher: Griffith Institute; Reprint edition
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0900416327
- ISBN-13: 978-0900416323
- Product Dimensions: 25.7 x 16.9 x 3.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 739 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Le bras droit de l'étudiant égyptologue,
By A Customer
This review is from: Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian (Egyptology: Griffith Institute) (Hardcover)
Ce dictionnaire est d'un grand secours pour moi. J'étudie les hiéroglyphes depuis 2 ans et mon ancien dictionnaire n'est rien en comparaison avec celui-ci. le Faulkner donne les références aux textes, ce qui aide la traduction. En plus, tout est écrit à la main, ce qui donne un certain cachet au livre!Vraiment un bon achat!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Middle Egyptian dictionary in English around!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian (Egyptology: Griffith Institute) (Hardcover)
This dictionary offers almost the entire corpus of vocabulary of Middle Egyptian literary texts that a student will encounter. No, it is *not* a complete corpus of ALL Middle Egyptian words, but it does cover the standard texts that are used in learning the language (Story of Sinuhe, the Shipwrecked Sailor, etc.). Even advanced students and professionals use this one volume work when the standard multi-volume dictionary (written in German) is a bit much.Some reviewers here have complained bitterly that the book is autographed (i.e., written by hand, not typeset). This book appeared first long before computers and computer typesetting. At that time (and often even today) it was standard for books with huge sections of Egyptian hieroglyphs to be written by hand, including the five volume German dictionary mentioned above. Yes, hot metal type was available, but with a press set-up fee of several thousand British pounds, it was rarely used. Moreover, not every hieroglyph is available in type (even in computer fonts). Fortunately Faulkner and his assistants have a very clear and legible hand and offer no problem in this regard. The only minor draw back is that the book is somewhat dated by today's standards (originally published in 1962), but not overly so. A few words have different transliterations today, and of course new meanings and newly discovered words are not given. However, unless you can read German, this book is well worth its price and will certainly handle the sorts of texts serious students will be presented with. It is by far better than Budge's horrendously out of date -- and down right inaccurate -- dictionary.
5.0 out of 5 stars
This one is the best,
By Mr. Protocol (Venice, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian (Egyptology: Griffith Institute) (Hardcover)
I learned to read Middle Egyptian using primarily Alan Gardiner's Middle Egyptian Grammar, Adrian deBuck's Reading Book, and this dictionary. Unfortunately, Amazon does not seem to carry deBuck, which is too bad, because deBuck is a book of hieroglyphic texts for the student, containing all the important Middle Egyptian stuff: The Story of Sinuhe, the Story of the Eloquent Peasant, etc. To show you how well Faulker and deBuck go together, I need only say that when Faulkner gave a reference for the particular definition of the word I was looking up out of deBuck, as often as not the reference turned out to be the very text I was reading - a pretty clear indication that I was on the right track!Use Miriam Lichtheim's delightful translations to keep you on the track as far as the overall sense goes, but for the right word at the right time, Faulkner and deBuck go together like ham on rye. deBuck is from Ares Publisher Inc. Google for Ares Publishers and you'll find them. Also, one reviewer complained that there is no reverse English-to-Egyptian index in Faulkner. True, but there's one published independently, and Amazon has that. I don't have the reference at hand but a little Amazon searching will turn it up.
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