Hieroglyphs
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| Glyphs are of many types. This is probably my favourite one. With the help of the 'Discovery Channel',
I'm determined to get this one sussed out. Brilliant symbols. This is clever stuff. "A glyph is a carved figure or character, incised or in relief; a carved pictograph; hence, a pictograph representing a form originally adopted for sculpture, whether carved or painted. Augustan English scholars of the early 18th century, imitating French antiquaries, adopted glyph from the Greek word meaning a "carving." Compare the carved and incised "sacred glyphs" hieroglyphs, which have had a longer history in English dating from the first Elizabethan translation of Plutarch (who adapted "hieroglyphic" as a Latin adjective). But "glyph" first came to widespread European attention with the engravings and lithographs from Frederick Catherwood's drawings of un-deciphered glyphs of the Maya civilization in the early 1840s. "Glyphs" still bring connotations of Maya glyphs to mind." - (Extract and Links from Wikipedia) |
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| Site Link | Description |
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| Greatscott.com | A good place to start. Nicely laid out. Good reading |
| Geocities.com | A short introduction. Hope it doesn't disappear. Useful |
| Gllyphotext.net | Hieroglyphic word processor! (and fonts) Fairly complex but fun. £ |
| Ancientscripts.com | How it works.... |
Eyelid.co.uk  |
A good colourful mix of information and history, resources and fun utilities (inc. Print Studio). |
| ● Books | |
| The Sacred Tradition in Ancient Egypt | The Esoteric Wisdom Revealed by Rosemary Clark (Paperback - September 2000) |
| An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary | with an index of English words, king list, and geographical list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, Coptic and Semitic alphabets, etc. Vol 1 (Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge, E. A. Wallis Budge / Paperback / Published 1978) |
| Egyptian Hieroglyphs for Everyone | An Introduction to the Writing of Ancient Egypt (Joseph Scott, Lenore Scott / Published 1990) |
| ● Tutorials | |
| Forumsoftware.com | An inexpensive Hieroglyph Generator / Tutorial £ |
| ● Documents | |
| Crystalinks.com | Worth a visit. Good introduction notes. |
| Hieratic |
| Hieratic An adaptation of the hieroglyphic script, simplified signs to make their writing quicker. An administrative and business script, and recorded documents of a literary, scientific and religious nature. It was most often used on papyrus rolls or sheets, or on bits of pottery or stone ostraca / ostraca. |
The Hieroglyphic Alphabet - see Greatscott.com for more | |||||
| HIEROGLYPH | REPRESENTS | PRONOUNCED | HIEROGLYPH | REPRESENTS | PRONOUNCED |
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vulture | ah (father) |
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reed | i (filled) |
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two reeds |
y (discovery) |
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arm & hand |
broad a (car) |
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quail chick |
oo(too) or w (wet) |
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foot | b (boot) |
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mat | p (pedestal) |
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horned viper |
f (feel) |
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owl | m (moon) |
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water | n (noon) |
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mouth | r (right) |
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reed shelter | h (hat) |
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twisted flax | h! (ha!) |
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placenta | kh (like Scotch 'loch') |
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animal's belly | ch (like German 'ich') |
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folded cloth | s (saw) |
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door bolt | s (saw) |
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pool | sh (show) |
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slope of hill | k (key) |
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basket with handle |
k (basket) |
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jar stand | g (go) |
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loaf | t (tap) |
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tethering rope | tj (church) |
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hand | d (dog) |
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snake | dj (adjust) |
You may notice that some hieroglyphs are vowel sounds, these are considered weak consonants and are used when a word begins with a vowel or where it might be confusing without them, like in a name. | ||
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Last Update: 04/08/2008 - Hieroglyphs - Languages - General - Neils Resource Web
