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Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt
 
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Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt [Hardcover]

Maria C. Betro (Author)
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Over 1,000 two-color line drawings, 160 black-and-white photographs

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good view of determinatives, Nov 6 2004
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars A handbook to the hieroglyphic writing of the Nile Valley, July 5 2001
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Maria Carmela Betro's Hieroglyphics provides a handbook to the hieroglyphic writing of the Nile Valley, using an organization by symbol to lend to a dictionary of history and explanation. An amazing guide to a written language that blends phonic symbols with pictograms.
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3.0 out of 5 stars more like "The Individual Glyphs of Ancient Egypt", Jan 9 1999
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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.
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