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Law, Daniel A. "A Grammatical Description of the Early Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/404.
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The purpose of this thesis is to describe the grammatical system of Classical Ch'olti', the language of the Classic Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions, as attested in inscriptions of the Early Classic (approximately AD 200-600). Around 300 Lowland Maya Hieroglyphic inscriptions have been dated to the Early Classic or before, nearly one third of these remain unpublished. Previous work on the monumental inscriptions of the Early Classic (Mathews 1985; Proskouriakoff 1950) has examined Early Classic monuments primarily as works of art. Mora-Marin (2001) examined the language of inscriptions found on early portable texts, a small subset of the corpus here examined. In great part, however, this study of the language of Early Classic inscriptions breaks new ground. The body of the thesis consists of a description of the linguistic system attested in Early Classic texts, with particular emphasis on morphology. The corpus is divided into three general sections according to date: Cycle 8 Texts, including all texts which date prior to the end of the Eighth Baktun in AD 435; Early Ninth Baktun Texts, covering the years between AD 435 and AD 534 (9.0.0.0.0-9.5.0.0.0 in the Maya Long Count), and ‘Terminal Early Classic’ Texts, which includes texts from between AD 534 and AD 633 (9.5.0.0.0-9.10.0.0.0). With these divisions it is possible to track the development of the attested linguistic system of the Early Classic inscriptions. It is discovered that the core elements of that system are already in place by the end of the Baktun 8. The morphological features first attested during the Eighth Baktun continue in use for the duration of the Early Classic, though in both of the subsequent time periods new features are added to the inventory of Early Classic morphemes. The static nature of the language, as suggested by its apparent continuity throughout the centuries which comprise the Early Classic, is consistent with the prestige status proposed for that language by Houston et al. (2000).
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Wildish, Mark. "Hieroglyphic semantics in Late Antiquity." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/3922/.
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The primary aim of this thesis is the reconstruction of a development in the history of the philosophy of language, namely an understanding of hieroglyphic Egyptian as a language uniquely adapted to the purposes and concerns of late Platonist metaphysics. There are three main reasons for this particular focus. First, the primary interest of philological criticism has emphasized the apparent shortcomings of the classical hieroglyphic tradition in light of the success of the modern decipherment endeavour. Though the Greek authors recognize a number of philologically distinctive features, they are primarily interested in contrasting hieroglyphic and Greek semantics. The latter is capable of discursive elaboration of the sapiential content to which the former is non-discursively adapted. Second, the sole surviving, fully extant essay in the exegesis of Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo can be situated within the broader philosophical project in which the Neoplatonic commentators were engaged. As such, it draws on elements of the distinct traditions of Greek reception of Egyptian wisdom, 4th/5th century pagan revivalism under Christian persecution, and late Platonist logico-metaphysical methodological principles. Third, the rationale for Neoplatonic use of allegorical interpretation as an exegetical tool is founded on the methodological principle of ‘analytic ascent’ from the phenomena depicted, through the concepts under which they fall, to their intelligible causes. These three stages in the ascent correspond to the three modes of expression of which, according to Greek exegetes, hieroglyphic Egyptian, as composites of material images and intelligible content, is capable. Horapollo’s Hieroglyphica, I argue, maintains a tripartite distinction between linguistic expressions, their meanings, and the objects or name-bearers which they depict and further aligns that distinction with three modes of hieroglyphic expression: representative, semantic, and symbolic. I conclude, therefore, that a procedure of analytic explanatory ascent from empirical observation through discursive reason to metaphysical or cosmological insights is employed in the exegesis of the sapiential content of the hieroglyphs of which it treats.
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Tanaka, Yuki. "A comparative study of Maya hieroglyphic writing and Japanese orthography in the quirigua hieroglyphic corpus /." Available to subscribers only, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1674100381&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1509&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2008."Department of Anthropology." Keywords: Hieroglyph, Linguistic anthropology, Maya, Phonology, Quirigua, Writing system. Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-162). Also available online.
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Tanaka, Yuki. "A Comparative Study of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing and Japanese Orthography in the Quiriguá Hieroglyphic Corpus." OpenSIUC, 2008. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/417.
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This paper examines consonant-vowel syllabic spelling in Maya hieroglyphic writing, comparing it with Japanese writing, both of which use logo-syllabograms. The central aim is to suggest a new perspective that will contribute to building testable theories for Mayan hieroglyphic spelling rules. Two research questions addressed here are: 1) how does the ancient Maya spelling system work; and 2) what is the motivation behind the ancient Mayan people's choice and use of CV syllabograms and logo-syllabic writing. I will investigate these questions from the following perspectives: 1) linguistic approaches to logo-syllabic writing systems; 2) phonetics; 3) a native Japanese speaker's intuition; 4) relationships between spoken and written languages. By using linguistic theories and methods with anthropological comparative methods, I propose the hypothesis that a word-final vowel in Maya hieroglyphic writing represents either an echo-vowel, a part of grammatical morpheme, a paragogic vowel accounting for word-final syllabification, or an underspelled word-final consonant.
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Rolet, Stéphane. "Les Hieroglyphica (1556) de Pierio Valériano." Tours, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000TOUR2034.
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Les Hieroglyphica (1556) de Pierio Valeriano forment une miscellanée de 900 pages, divisée en 58 livres et consacrée à l'exégèse symbolique de sujets empruntés à l'univers entier. [. . . ]Dans ses Hieroglyphica[. . . ], pierio acclimate en terre-latine les hiéroglyphes égyptiens, langage prestigieux car sensé être immédiatement compréhensible, sans truchement aucun. En se fondant sur l'origine prétendûment biblique des hiéroglyphes égyptiens, Pierio transforme les symboles gréco-latins en hiéroglyphes;pour s'en servir comme d'un vrai langage symbolique, il utilise surtout l'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili où il trouve la syntaxe qui lui manque pour faire parler ses "hieroglyphes". Il réinvestit les objets symboliques traditionnels[. . . ] et tente de les lire avec la nouvelle grille symbolique qu'il acréée. L'attention que Pierio porte aux symboles culmine avec les oeuvres d'art antiques et leur ornements qu'il tente d'interpréter[. . . ]. Dans cette présentation encore fort libre du savoir symbolique de son temps, Pierio prépare cependant les allégories de la Contre-Réforme et du XVIIe siècle. Annexes : Corpus des oeuvres d'art (1) et des monnaies antiques (2) citées dans les Hieroglyphica. Traduction annotée des livres 17-26 des hieroglyphica sur les volatiles.
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Nederhof, Mark-Jan. "OCR of hand-written transcriptions of hieroglyphic text." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201704.
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Encoding hieroglyphic texts is time-consuming. If a text already exists as hand-written transcription, there is an alternative, namely OCR. Off-the-shelf OCR systems seem difficult to adapt to the peculiarities of Ancient Egyptian. Presented is a proof-of-concept tool that was designed to digitize texts of Urkunden IV in the hand-writing of Kurt Sethe. It automatically recognizes signs and produces a normalized encoding, suitable for storage in a database, or for printing on a screen or on paper, requiring little manual correction.
The encoding of hieroglyphic text is RES (Revised Encoding Scheme) rather than (common dialects of) MdC (Manuel de Codage). Earlier papers argued against MdC and in favour of RES for corpus development. Arguments in favour of RES include longevity of the encoding, as its semantics are font-independent. The present study provides evidence that RES is also much preferable to MdC in the context of OCR. With a well-understood parsing technique, relative positioning of scanned signs can be straightforwardly mapped to suitable primitives of the encoding.
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Leal, Pedro Germano Moraes Cardoso. "The invention of hieroglyphs : a theory for the transmission of hieroglyphs in early-modern Europe." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5167/.
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The present dissertation investigates the process of transmission of hieroglyphs from Egypt to Early-Modern Europe. This phenomenon has been studied by Egyptologists and Art Historians, mostly from a historical and descriptive standpoint, but here an original theoretical perspective was adopted: Grammatology or the study of writing. In order to understand this process of stimuli diffusion, and its outcome, it was deemed necessary to delve into both the Egyptian writing-system and the hieroglyphic phenomenon in the Renaissance, which led the dissertation to be divided into two parts. The First Part is devoted to The Ancient Hieroglyph: Chapter One addresses the mechanics of Egyptian hieroglyphs, their grammatological functions and the outline of a theory for the text-image dynamics in this context; Chapter Two examines the terminology of “hieroglyph” in Egypt, and its conceptual difference from the Greek and Contemporary views on the matter; Chapter Three describes the historical development of the Egyptian writing and a hypothesis for the emergence of a “hieroglyphic hermeneutics”; Chapter Four is dedicated to Horapollon’s Hieroglyphica, which is regarded as the main vector of diffusion between Ancient and Modern hieroglyphic traditions. The Second Part focuses on The Early-Modern Hieroglyph: Chapter Five outlines the early process of diffusion and the first ideas of hieroglyph in the Renaissance; Chapter Six discusses the creation of new hieroglyphic codes; Chapter Seven tackles the role of hieroglyphs in the birth of the emblematic tradition and its continuous relationship on different culture levels; Chapter Eight look into the Spanish jeroglificos, regarding it as a hybrid genre of hieroglyphs and emblems; Chapter Nine explores the impact of Renaissance hieroglyphs on the cultural perception of writing; and finally, in Chapter Ten, the process of convergence between hieroglyphs, alchemical iconography and emblems is analysed in the light of the previous chapters. It was found that there is an objective relationship between Ancient and Modern hieroglyphs, not easily perceptible and often downplayed as a result of a certain logocentrism, but of great importance – especially in terms of its impact on the establishment of a European text-image tradition. Another conclusion is that, if Renaissance scholars, artists and poets thought it possible to write through images, and in fact created speaking pictures, visual compositions can be considered as a form of writing - being therefore a potential subject of Grammatology. This finding does not exclude other instruments of analysis, but creates a number of theoretical solutions in the field of text-image studies that have been employed in the present study.
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Martínez, Rodríguez Elena Cristina. "Corpus of the Lycian and Hieroglyphic Luwian Kinship Terms." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673408.
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This dissertation provides a philological corpus of the kinship lexicon attested in the Lycian and Hieroglyphic Luwian sources with an evaluation of their semantic, morphological and epigraphic aspects. The present study is based on an updated compilation of the Lycian and Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions and attempts to describe, synchronically and diachronically, the linguistic nature of the terms under discussion. The analysis resorts to the Comparative Method of Historical Linguistics, as well as to the internal comparison of the different indicators that each type of composition presents. Research on kinship lexicon is especially fruitful in terms of addressing the fragmentary condition of the Lycian and Luwian languages. This is due to the significant volume of attestations that their corpora present concerning the family vocabulary, which turns it into a suitable material for applying combinatory analysis. Lycian and Hieroglyphic Luwian languages are mostly contained in compositions of funerary and administrative nature, which greatly comprises vocabulary of the family semantic domain. On the one hand, Lycian is attested during the 5th and 4th BC in the south-west Anatolia in funerary epitaphs and some dynastic propaganda texts. On the other, Hieroglyphic Luwian was used during both the second and the first millennium BC, roughly from the 14th to the 7th BC, in a vast part of Anatolia and Syria, and its inscriptions contain decrees and commemorative or funerary compositions. Both the common dialectal identity as Luwic languages and the similarity of the textual genres turn the investigation of the family vocabulary into an insightful material for contributing to the better understanding of these languages. Besides, the investigation contributes to the genealogical information of the rulers that commissioned the inscriptions, useful for the reconstruction of the History of this period, as well as with sociological aspects of the family structure, especially regarding the Lycian sources.La present tesi doctoral té per objectiu oferir un corpus del lèxic de parentiu que es troba atestat a les fonts epigràfiques del lici i del luvi jeroglífic, acompanyat d’un comentari filològic que contempla els aspectes semàntics, morfològics i epigràfics de cada terme. El lici i el luvi jeroglífic són dues llengües anatòliques de la família indoeuroepa i, concretament, del grup dialectal lúvic, les característiques de les quals les converteixen en un material idoni per dur a terme un estudi comparatiu. El lici es troba majoritàriament atestat, en un alfabet derivat del grec, en epitafis funeraris i en algunes inscripcions dinàstiques dels segles V i IV a.C., a la regió sud-oest d’Anatòlia. Per la seva banda el luvi jeroglífic apareix documentat, en una escriptura jeroglífica pròpia, entre els segles XIV i VII a.C. en una àmplia extensió geogràfica que comprèn des del centre i l’oest d’Anatòlia fins el nord de Síria. El seu material es pot dividir en dues fases, les inscripcions d’època hittita, fonamentalment reials, i les inscripcions atestades després de l’anorreament dels grans imperis del mediterrani oriental al Bronze final, que comprèn les gestes, epitafis o dedicatòries de reis i governadors locals. Tant per la seva identitat dialectal, com pel gènere literari que comparteixen les composicions, presentar conjuntament el lèxic d’aquestes dues llengües esdevé idoni per afrontar la seva condició de llengües fragmentàries, especialment en el cas del lici. Així doncs, el present estudi es basa en una compilació exhaustiva i actualitzada del material textual d’aquestes dues llengües, i empra el mètode comparatiu de la lingüística històrica, així com l’anàlisi combinatòria de les dades lingüístiques i de realia, per tal d’obtenir una valoració completa del significat de cada terme. Aquesta metodologia permet, a part de la pròpia descripció lingüística del mot, aportar informació útil pel que fa a aspectes genealògics dels governadors de l’Edat del Ferro de la regió siro-anatòlica i, en relació al lici, comprendre els costums funeraris que es deriven de la distribució dels membres familiars en l’espai de la tomba, la qual cosa condueix a extreure conclusions de caire social vinculades a l’estructura familiar lícia. El corpus de les dues llengües es complementa amb un capítol etimològic final, el qual permet situar la naturalesa lingüística dels termes lúvics de parentiu en relació a la resta de llengües de la família indoeuropea.
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Miyagawa, So. "An intuitive unicode input method for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2016. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201695.
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In this study, I extended input methods for the Japanese language to Egyptian hieroglyphics. There are several systems that capable of inputting Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. However, they do not allow us to directly input hieroglyphs, for instance, into MS Word. The new Egyptian hieroglyphic input system being reported here, developed using technology used for inputting Japanese writing, is quite unique and allows the direct input of hieroglyphs, for example, into MS Word. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Japanese writing system (with its mixture of hiragana, katakana and kanji) share basic graphemic characteristics. For instance, Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic logograms are functionally similar to Japanese kanji logograms (Chinese characters), whereas Egyptian hieroglyphic phonograms are functionally similar to Japanese hiragana and katakana syllabic phonograms. The input technology for Japanese makes it possible to input a mixture of logograms and phonograms, and phonetic complements. This technology is a well-organized and handy tool to input Japanese writing into computers, having been used by over 100 million people. I applied this technology to Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic inputting and created a new intuitive hieroglyphic inputting system using Google Japanese Input. Using this method, anyone can directly write Egyptian hieroglyphic writing into software like MS Word. If the transcription of an ancient Egyptian word is entered, the correct hieroglyphs are generated by this system. If there are multiple options for any phonemic combinations that use other combinations of phonetic complements or determinatives, a dropdown window with a list of several combinations of glyphs appears and the user can choose the desired combination.
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Wilson, Penelope. "A lexicographical study of the Ptolemaic texts in the Temple of Edfu." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.303304.
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Peden, Alexander John. "The scope and roles of hieroglyphic and hieratic graffiti in ancient Egypt and Nubia : textual graffiti in the hieroglyphic and hieratic scripts from the Pharaonic Era: Dynasties I - XXXI." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.243258.
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Ray, Corey Carpenter. "Understanding the ancient Egyptians : an examination of living creature hieroglyphs." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51538.
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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 1999.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In this thesis an exploration is made into whether or not hieroglyphs reflect ideas of the ancient Egyptians themselves. By examining "living creature" hieroglyphs one may contemplate why the ancient Egyptian chose a particular manner of depiction. The manner of depiction can then be examined insofar as what ideas they may reflect. In this way study into other groups of signs such as those of the environment may be used to further illuminate the lives and our understanding of the ancient Egyptian(s). This thesis begins with an examination of both the problem inherent in such a task and an overview of some of the "processes" involved. By understanding that a reconstructed reality, that of the hieroglyph, reflects both real and perceived characteristics represented in glyphic form, one may seek out the mental impressions considered relevant to the people themselves. Next the role literacy played and still plays is discussed. This discussion includes a brief historical overview of both the history of decipherment and the "language" of the ancient Egyptians. The importance of "writing", artistic in nature in Egypt in regards to hieroglyphs, is then discussed as it relates to its use as symbol. Hieroglyphs are then discussed in their role as art, communication, and language emphasizing the multitudinous role(s) which they served. The importance is thus reiterated that hieroglyphs served as a communication of ideas to both the literate and the "illiterate" in at least a menial manner. After providing a "background" context of both the world and time of hieroglyphs and their subsequent "understanding" and interpretation, there is an analysis of the hieroglyphs for living creatures including the following Gardiner groupings: (1) mammals, (2) birds, (3) amphibians and reptiles, (4) fish, (5) invertebrates and lesser animals. The signs are examined in regards to their function and variations followed by some observations and comments related to the "structure" and perspective of the sign itself. Summary observations and comments are then made about each group. The thesis is then brought full circle by examining the implications of what hieroglyphs can tell us about the ancient Egyptians, via the perceptive and communicative role which they played. By understanding hieroglyphs as "fingerprints" of/from the mind of the people and subsequently their culture, this framework may provide a new mechanism into understanding the Egyptian via their own visualization and perceptive nature. A case is then proposed that this new "mechanism", if it is indeed considered feasible, can be applied to not only the physical world consisting of nature such as the environment, but also to groups which depict manmade objects.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: In hierdie tesis is die moontlikheid ondersoek dat hierogliewe iets van die ideewereld van die antieke Egiptenare reflekteer. In die bestudering van "lewende wese" hierogliewe kom vrae op soos waarom die antieke Egiptenare juis 'n spesifieke vorm van voorsteIIing verkies het. Die vorm van voorsteIIing kan dan bestudeer word vir die idees wat dit moontlik mag reflekteer. Ander groepe/velde van tekens, soos die van die breër omgewing, kan gebruik word om verdere lig te werp op die lewe van die antieke Egiptenaar(e) en ons verstaan daarvan. Die tesis begin met 'n bestudering van die inherente probleme in die aanpak van so 'n taak en 'n oorsig oor sommige van die "prosesse" daarby betrokke. By die verstaan van die hieroglief as 'n gekonstrueerde realiteit, wat weklike sowel as afgeleide eienskappe reflekteer, ontdek die ondersoeker daarvan iets van die persoonlike/kulturele indrukke wat deur hierdie groep mense as relevant ervaar is. In die volgende afdeling kom die rol van geletterdheid aan die beurt. Hierdie bespreking sluit 'n bondige historiese oorsig oor die geskiedenis van ontsyfering asook die taal van die Egiptenare in. Die belang van die "skryfkuns" en veral die kunsaard daarvan in die Egiptiese hierogliewe word vervolgens bespreek. Dit is veraI waar soos dit in verhouding staan met die gebruik daarvan as simbool. Die veelsydige rol(le) en belang van hierogliewe in die kuns, kommunikasie en taal word dan ondersoek en bespreek. Die klem word daarop gelê dat hierogliewe as die kommunikasie van idees aan beide die geletterde en "ongeletterde" dien. Nadat 'n agtergrondkonteks van die wereld en tyd van die hierogliewe en die daaruitvloeiende "verstaan" en interpretasie daarvan gegee is, word 'n analise van die "lewende wese" hierogliewe gedoen. Dit sluit die volgende groeperinge van Gardiner in: (1) soogdiere, (2) voels, (3) amfibiee en reptiele, (4) visse, (5) invertebrata en kleiner diere. Hierdie hierogliewe word ondersoek in terme van hulle funksie en variasies, gevolg deur waarnemings en opmerkings aangaande die "struktuur" en die perspektief van die teken. Opsommende observasies en enkele opmerkings oor elke groep volg daarna. Die tesis word afgerond met 'n ondersoek na die implikasies van wat ons kan wys word uit die hierogliewe aangaande die antieke Egiptenare, via die perspektiwiese en kommunikatiewe rol wat dit vervuI. Deur hierogliewe te verstaan as die "vingerafdrukke" van die begrip van hierdie mense kan hierdie raamwerk 'n nuwe meganisme in die verstaan van die Egiptenaar via die visualisasie en waarneembare aard daarvan, vorm. 'n Voorstel word gemaak dat hierdie nuwe "meganisme", indien dit uitvoerbaar is, toegepas kan word, nie net op die hierogliewe van die fisiese wereld bestaande uit die natuur en die omgewing nie, maar ook op hierogliewe wat mensgemaakte voorwerpe voorstel.
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Haertel, Robbie A. "MayanWiki : an online, consensus-based linguistic corpus of the Mayan hieroglyphs /." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2212.pdf.
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Karnava, Artemis. "The cretan hieroglyphic script of the second millennium BC: description, analysis, function and decipherment perspectives." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211862.
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Nunn, David. "Shades of Meaning :A Semiotic Approach to the Use of Polychromy in Egyptian Hieroglyphic Inscriptions." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/264344.
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Abstract:Uniquely amongst the earliest writing systems, the Egyptian hieroglyphic script was sometimes enhanced by colouring the signs. This was not done in an arbitrary fashion, but was conventional, with each colour used in a conscious attempt either at materialism, naturalism, semi-naturalism or as a metaphor. This study aims to shed some light on the processes involved in writing in colour. The methodology, theory, analysis and extended commentary are to be found in Volume 1.The study shows that a polychrome canon was in use, in a remarkably coherent and stable fashion, during some two thousand five hundred years, from the Old Kingdom right through to the Ptolemaic period. A palaeography, showing the best examples of each hieroglyph together with a brief commentary, forms the whole of Volume 2. These exemplars are taken from a database of polychrome hieroglyphs: a collection of over three thousand six hundred signs extracted from fifty-two monumental inscriptions. They cover 67% of all the hieroglyphs found in Gardiner’s sign list. Those signs in the collection that possess coloured images can all be found in Volume 3. The palaeography is intended to be a practical tool, as is the application created in order to facilitate the navigation, consultation and update of the database.In the process of analysing this data, several commonly held ideas about colour symbolism and the identification of certain hieroglyphs were brought into question and rectified, where possible. However, many unanswered questions remain, leaving the door open to further fascinating research.Doctorat en Langues, lettres et traductologie
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Bailey-Thiele, Anna. "The hieroglyphic Monad of Dr John Dee as a synthesis of late renaissance European thought." Thesis, Bailey-Thiele, Anna (2015) The hieroglyphic Monad of Dr John Dee as a synthesis of late renaissance European thought. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2015. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/28518/.
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John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica presents his universal symbol of knowledge and explains some of the secrets contained within. A fundamental assumption of such a symbol is an underlying oneness of reality and of knowledge in which everything can be shown to be interrelated. In producing his symbols Dee combines a number of disparate topics in a way that seems impossible to modern readers but was considered only natural by his contemporaries. Thus, in this thesis I examine the manner in which this important aspect of Renaissance thought can be illuminated through a study of the Monas Hieroglyphica.
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Leal, Pedro Germano Moraes Cardoso. "O espelho dos hier?glifos: da ru?na das letras eg?pcias ? sua reinven??o quim?rica entre os s?c. XV e XVII." Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, 2009. http://repositorio.ufrn.br:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/16148.
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This master thesis is an overview of how the Egyptian writing became a ruin, and then was mythunderstood by the Western culture through speculations based on its figurative appeal or by its magical nature this invention results not only in new idea of writing, but also in many graphical experiments which take part in the creation of the Renaissance and Baroque visual identity
A presente disserta??o ? um panorama de como a escrita hierogl?fica eg?pcia se torna uma ru?na e ent?o ? reinterpretada pelo Ocidente atrav?s de especula??es motivadas por seu apelo imag?tico ou por seu car?ter m?gico uma inven??o que resulta n?o apenas numa nova id?ia escrita, transcendental, mas que se desdobra em v?rias experimenta??es gr?ficas que participam ativamente da cria??o da identidade visual do Renascimento e Barroco
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Nolan, Suzanne. "Late classic politics and ideology : a case study of Hieroglyphic Stairway 2 at Yaxchilan, Chiapas, Mexico." Thesis, University of Essex, 2015. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/16983/.
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This project examines Hieroglyphic Stairway 2 (HS. 2) at Yaxchilan, a Classic Maya city in Southern Mexico. Uncovered in 1975 as part of the clearing and consolidation of Structure 33, HS. 2 is made up of thirteen carved blocks which form the riser to the last step in the ascent to this building. The blocks depict thirteen different individuals (four female and nine male) in a series of elaborate ballgame rituals that demonstrated the legitimacy and power of Bird Jaguar IV, the ruler over Yaxchilan from 752-768 A.D. In this study, the previous work conducted around this monument is examined, and argue that it has been insufficient to draw the conclusions commonly presented about it. A translation of the hieroglyphic inscriptions from all blocks is provided, where previously only translations from the central three blocks (VI, VII, VIII) have been made available. This study also provides an analysis of the imagery on the blocks to better understand the ideology of Late Classic Yaxchilan (530-830 A.D.). This work relies on the hieroglyphic and archaeological data available from the site to demonstrate the geographical and temporal variation in lowland Maya political organisation, and to provide a model for Late Classic Yaxchilan. Overall, the author argues that the Late Classic political organisation of Yaxchilan underwent a period of centralisation followed by decentralisation and collapse. The contribution of this study to the literature is the conclusion that the representation of so many individuals on HS. 2 reveals that political power was being conferred upon the elite through ‘empowering,’ which led to a delocalisation of authority. This may also have led to dissatisfaction among the general population of the ideology of kingship, which may have caused the community to reject uncharismatic rulers.
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Lobban, Paul. ""Conspire into your hieroglyphick" : deciphering the self in the poems and letters of Katherine Philips (1632-1664) /." Title page and introduction only, 1994. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arl796.pdf.
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Molina, Muga Gabriel. "Music terminology in Ancient Egypt, a lexicographic study of verbal expressions concerning the playing of musical instruments." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Egyptologi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-392796.
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The focus of this paper concerns different verbal expressions found within the ancient Egyptian historical and archaeological record that describes the act of playing different instruments. This paper sheds light on ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic terminology by presenting the corresponding translations and transliterations from the Pharaonic Period. A discussion is carried out concerning whether or not the terms in question have any polysemic meanings as well as any traceable etymology or developmental aspects. Tomb scenes with captions of expressions on how to play musical instruments are the primary sources for this paper to demonstrate the different variations of the terminology.
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Plank, Shannon E. Plank Shannon E. "Maya dwellings in hieroglyphs and archaeology an integrative approach to ancient architecture and spatial cognition /." Oxford : John and Erica Hedges Ltd, 2004. http://books.google.com/books?id=sCRmAAAAMAAJ.
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Plank, Shannon E. "Maya dwellings in hieroglyphs and archaeology : an interactive approach to ancient architecture and spatial cognition /." Oxford : Archaeopress, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39949560d.
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Van, Essche Eric. "Du lisible au visible: l'écriture figurative dans les temples de l'époque ramesside." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212509.
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Savage, Christopher Tyra. "Alternative Epigraphic Interpretations of the Maya Snake Emblem Glyph." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2007. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/2093.
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This thesis seeks to demonstrate that the Maya snake emblem glyph is associated with religious specialists, instead of geographic locations, as emblem glyphs are typically understood to be. The inscriptions and the media on which the snake emblem glyph occurs will be analyzed to determine the role or function of the "Lord of the Snake." Temporal and spatial data has also been collected to aid in understanding the enigmatic glyph. The snake emblem glyph has recently been identified as originating from a broad area containing the sites of El Peru and La Corona in Guatemala, and Dzibanche, Mexico, a departure from the longstanding choice of Calakmul, Mexico. Unprovenanced snake emblem glyph texts have been cataloged under a "Site Q" designation ('Q' for the Spanish word Que, meaning "which") by Peter Mathews. Site Q is thus not securely identified geographically, which confounds efforts to designate a particular site as the snake emblem glyph site. Other problems with the snake emblem glyph, such as its geographically wide dispersal, hint that it is not a title of a particular city or region. Yet another problem is "a proper fit" between the individuals listed on unprovenanced material and individuals named at sites associated with the snake emblem glyph. It is argued that the interpretation of the snake emblem glyph differs from how emblem glyphs are presently understood. Rather than representing a physical location, the snake emblem glyph represents a mythological place or "state," containing members who legitimize their lineage (association) through ritual events such as communication with supernaturals via the vision serpent. The specialists perform rituals, scatterings, are ballplayers, and witness events. They are rarely associated with accession, which by current interpretation is implicitly tied to emblem glyphs.M.A.
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Engsheden, Åke. "La reconstitution du verbe en égyptien de tradition 400-30 avant J.-C." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2002. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-2535.
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Two variants of ancient Egyptian were used for different categories of written communication during the last millennium B.C. The vernacular, known as Demotic, served as the written language for administrative, legal and literary documents. Traditional Egyptian (égyptien de tradition), written in the hieroglyphic script and with linguistic structures that are purported to imitate those of the Classical Egyptian, was still used to compose mainly religious documents. The present work treats the verbal system of Traditional Egyptian using texts dated to the period 400-30 B.C. These documents include royal stelae and priestly decrees, among these the Rosetta Stone, as well as biographical inscriptions. After a general introduction, and a presentation of morphological characteristics, the study takes up the basic verbal patterns. The suffix conjugations, the sDm=fand sDm.n=f , in its various meanings and combinations, affirmative and negative, are dealt with, as is the pseudoparticiple. The infinitive, as it appears in e.g. pseudoverbal constructions and the sDm pw ir.n=f is examined in a separate section, with an additional chapter covering the passive forms of the suffix conjugation. A summary of the conclusions that are reached by this study are presented in the final chapter. Graphic variations show that morphemes formerly used to distinguish verbal classes are largely ignored. Only a few irregular verbs still display, at times, writings that retain the old inflections, often, however, without corresponding to the category that would be expected given the context. These writings are unevenly distributed among the documents, testifying to the existence of local, or perhaps rather individual, grammatical systems. Similarly, the co-existence in Traditional Egyptian of the two forms of the suffix conjugation sDm.n=fand sDm=f, both used to express a completed event, is best understood when each document is studied separately. There is a general avoidance of forms and expressions that parallel those found in Demotic. This appears to have been of greater importance than following the rules of Classical Egyptian. The use of the conjunctive and infinitival constructions, under certain conditions, confirms this observation.
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Bellini, M. "Geroglifici fantastici. Il mito “estetico” dell’Egitto e il “pensare per immagini”." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/183181.
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First chapter: the meaning of images in ancient Egyptian thought. The realtionship between images and signs in hieroglyphic writing. The "magic realism" of Egyptian images. Second chapter: hieroglyphic thinking in the Reinaissance. Symbolic values of epigraphic Egyptian writing and the Ars memoriae in Plato, Giordano Bruno, Giambattista Della Porta and Ralph Cudworth. Renaissance images of silence. Third chapter: hieroglyphs as heuristic instruments of aesthetic knowledge. Francis Bacon and Real Characters. Hieroglyphs as "universal fantastici" in Vico's Scienza nuova : an analysis of the first two books. Mythical thought as a form of thinking by images. Fourth chapter: the idea of gesture in the early 18. century's aesthetic culture. Iconism and obscurity in "expressive hieroglyphs" by Diderot. Closing remarks. Bibliography.
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Abdel, Hadi Hassan. "Portes de degagements dans les temples tardifs d'egypte, dendara et edfou : traduction et commentaires." Montpellier 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987MON30026.
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La porte est un element important de l'architecture du temple egyptien. C'est un edifice independant de la salle ou elle se trouve. Elle est construite dans une matiere plus resistante que le reste du mur. Nous avons etudie dans la partie architecturale les elements constitutifs de la porte : le seuil, les montants et le linteau. Dans la typologie des portes, nous en avons distingue trois : les portes monumentales, les portes a linteau brise et les portes laterales. La decoration est conditionnee par la composition meme de la porte. Ainsi, les montants sont divises en registres superposes, le linteau en tableaux symetriques. Les embrasures sont decorees par des emblemes prophylactiques. La partie essentielle de notre travail traite des textes des portes des temples d'edfou et de dendara. Les textes des portes axiales des deux temples ont ete traduits d'une maniere exhaustive. Pour les portes laterales, nous avons choisi les textes les plus significatifs. Les traductions sont suivies d'une commentaire philologique et theologique et d'une conclusion sur le contenu des textes. Dans la conclusion generale, nous avons demontre le role important que joue la porte dans la vie du temple egyptien. Par le choix de ses textes et representations, la porte resume ce qui se passe dans la salle du temple a laquelle elle donne acces. Les portes axiales et laterales constituent un resume theologique, dogmatique et rituel du temple. Un volume separe est reserve a la bibliographie et aux indexThe door is an important element of the egyptian tempel architecture. It is an independant edifice from the hall when it lies. It is constructed in a more resistant matter than the reste of the wall. We have studied, in the architectural part, the elements, that constitute the door : the threshold ; the posts, and the lintel. As about the door typology, we have distinguished three kinds : the monumental doors, the doors with opend lintel and the lateral doors. The decoration is conditioned by the composition of the door. So, the posts are divised in superposed registers, the lintel is occupied by symetrical tableau. The splaies are decorated by prophylactic signs. The essential part of our work concerns the door texts of the tempels of edfu and dendara. The the texts of the axial doors of the two tempels are translated in an exhaustive way. As for the lateral doors, we choised the most significant texts. The translations are followed by a philological and theological commentary and a conclusion upon the contents of the texts. In the general conclusion, we demonstrated the important role of the door in the egyptian tempel. By the choice of its texts and representations, the door summarizes which happens in the next hall of the tempel. A separated volume is reserved for the bibliography and indexes
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Balza, Maria Elena. "Un monde de signes et de figures. : Monuments, reliefs, inscriptions hiéroglyphiques en Anatolie entre âge du Bronze et âge du Fer." Thesis, Limoges, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIMO0070/document.
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L’objectif du travail de recherche est de présenter une analyse du système d’écriture hiéroglyphique anatolien entre la moitié du IIe millénaire av. J.-C. – quand des symboles graphiques déjà connus et employés en milieu anatolien commencent à s’organiser en système – et les premiers siècles du Ier millénaire av. J.-C. Le corpus pris en considération est constitué essentiellement par les inscriptions monumentales de la période hittite. Les caractéristiques principales de ces inscriptions ont été par la suite comparées avec un certain nombre de textes de la période post-hittite. Au cours du travail de recherche, à une analyse proprement philologique et linguistique des textes qui constituent le corpus examiné, on a préféré une approche différente, capable de prendre en considération tous les aspects et les propriétés des hiéroglyphes anatoliens. Les pratiques sociales liées aux phénomènes d’écriture, le choix des supports, les pratiques de mise en page des textes, le rôle des rédacteurs, la perception des textes de la part des lecteurs et le caractère « politique » du corpus ont constitué le véritable cœur de la recherche. Un intérêt particulier a été également porté au rapport entre « code scriptural » et « code visuel », et notamment au fait que, dans le cas de l’écriture hiéroglyphique anatolienne – comme dans le cas de toute écriture hiéroglyphique – l’opposition figuratif vs textuel doit forcement être mis de côté en raison des principes mêmes du fonctionnement du système d’écritureThe main goal of the research work is to present a survey on the Anatolian hieroglyphic script between the middle of the 2nd millennium BC – when a series of symbols already known and used in Anatolia takes the form of a proper writing system – and the first centuries of the 1st millennium BC. The text corpus chosen as case study mainly consists of the monumental inscriptions dating to the Hittite Empire Period. These inscriptions and their main characteristics have been subsequently compared with some representative texts dating to the Neo-Hittite period. Concerning the methodological aspects of the research, instead of a philological and linguistic analysis of the corpus taken into consideration, it has been preferred an approach able to take into account the social practices connected with the use of the writing system. According to this methodological choice, special attention has been paid to the text carriers, the organization of the texts’ layout, the role played by the authors and the scribes, the ‘consumption’ of the texts by the target audience, and the political and ideological character of the inscriptions. In addition, in the light of the fundamental nature of the Anatolian hieroglyphic system, the signs of which are both images and signs of writing, particular attention has also been paid to the link existing between ‘writing’ and ‘visual’ codes, and especially to the ambiguous relationship existing between the iconographic and textual elements of the inscriptions
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Thuault, Simon. "La dissimilation graphique dans les textes égyptiens de l'Ancien Empire : essai de grammatologie cognitive." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30040.
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La « dissimilation graphique » est une particularité récurrente des écritures égyptiennes, en particulier à l’Ancien Empire (IIIe-VIe dynasties, env. 2700/2150 av. J. C.). À cette époque, la pluralité (aussi bien grammaticale que lexicale) était indiquée par le triplement des sémogrammes, signes investis d’une valeur sémantique et censés permettre la compréhension des lexèmes. De ce fait, si les idéogrammes et classificateurs étaient d’ordinaire répétés trois fois à l’identique, la « dissimilation » désigne les occurrences dans lesquelles ces trois signes sont distincts. Par exemple, si un mot comme bAk.w, « serviteurs », est traditionnellement accompagné de trois hommes assis, l’un d’entre eux pourra être remplacé par une femme en cas de dissimilation. De même, si mHy.t, « poissons », comprend habituellement trois poissons de même espèce, sa version dissimilée offrira trois espèces différentes. Cette thèse se donne pour objectif d’analyser de façon systématique la dissimilation graphique, majoritairement attestée dans les inscriptions hiéroglyphes des tombes royales et privées, mais également dans certains documents hiératiques. À travers cette étude, les raisons supposées de l’existence de la dissimilation graphique sont exposées. En conséquence, la classification égyptienne se voit placée sous de nouveaux éclairages. De plus, par l’examen d’un nombre important de textes égyptiens de l’Ancien Empire, de nouvelles analyses des fonctions des signes qui les composent seront proposées afin d’éclaircir certaines zones d’ombres de la linguistique égyptologiqueThe peculiarity called “dissimilation graphique” is recurrent in Egyptian writing systems, particularly during Old Kingdom (Dyn. III-VI, ca. 2700-2150 BC). At this time, plurality (grammatical and lexical) is indicated by the threefold of semograms, signs that have a semantic value and allow to understand the lexemes. Thus, if ideograms and classifiers are ordinary reproduced three times identically, “dissimilation” refers to occurrences where these three signs are different. For example, if bAk.w, “servants”, is usually followed by three men, in case of dissimilation, one of them can be replaced by a woman. In the same way, if mHy.t, “fish”, habitually takes three identical fish, a dissimilated version will show three different species. This Ph.D Thesis aims to analyse in a systematic way the process of “dissimilation graphique”, mostly found in hieroglyphic inscriptions of royal and private tombs, but also in some hieratic documents. Through this study, the supposed reasons of dissimilation are exposed. Consequently, Egyptian classification is newly enlightened. Moreover, in examining a great number of Old Kingdom texts, new analysis of the signs functions are proposed to clarify some unclear elements of egyptological Linguistics
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Decorte, Roeland Pieter-Jan Ewoud. "The origins of writing, and its relation to art on Bronze Age Crete." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/274634.
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This thesis sheds first light on the complex narrative behind the earliest appearance of writing in Europe. A radical new framework of interpretation, recognising art and writing as different ends of a single mode of graphic expression, is applied to the material culture of Early to Middle Bronze Age Crete as a context-conscious alternative to the strict and anachronistic divisions imposed by traditional models. This allows for a novel way of viewing and identifying structures of meaning embedded in otherwise familiar evidence. A comprehensive synthesis of the archaeological evidence for the undeciphered Bronze Age Cretan writing systems is offered, contextualising the thesis and its arguments within a new narrative of mostly autonomous script formation on Crete. Detailed analysis of the material record is started in the Early Bronze Age, where a previously unrecognised system of Prepalatial glyptic iconography is demonstrated to have maintained uniform distribution and presentation for roughly eight centuries, appearing in the exact contexts, and ostensibly fulfilling similar functions, as later writing. This newly identified system is argued to have provided the conceptual background against which later writing emerged. The thesis subsequently discusses the Archanes Script, the first accepted ‘true’ writing to appear west of Egypt, which has been severely understudied and highly ill-understood. Redefining the Archanes Script completely, a first signary is constructed, and new documents discovered. A further chapter argues for the possible existence of other, as of yet unidentified, linear writing systems on Crete. This is followed by a study of the Cretan Hieroglyphic writing system; the unjustified omission of supposedly ‘decorative’ signs in many of its documents is identified, the script’s corpus nearly doubled, and ‘a complete turnaround in the way in which we approach and define Cretan Hieroglyphic’ proposed.
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Alvarez, Christelle. "Inscribing the pyramid of king Qakare Ibi : scribal practice and mortuary literature in late Old Kingdom Egypt." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2018. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:91f5c89d-1c1e-47e2-9780-1136e4b3b10c.
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This thesis investigates how the burial chamber of the 8th Dynasty pyramid of king Qakare Ibi at Saqqara in Egypt (c. 2109-2107 B.C.) was inscribed. It uses a holistic approach to focus on the textual programme and its unusual aspects in comparison to older pyramids. In doing so, it addresses issues of textual transmission and of scribal practice in the process of inscribing the walls of subterranean chambers in pyramids. The aim is to contextualise the texts of Ibi within the Memphite tradition of Pyamid Texts and the development of mortuary literature on different media from the late third millennium BCE Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom in the early second millennium BCE. The first chapter presents the background to this research and information on king Ibi and his pyramid. The second chapter treats research on the arrangement of the texts on the walls of subterranean chambers of royal pyramids of kings and queens and compares the layout of the texts in the pyramid of Ibi with older pyramids. It then discusses in detail one section on the east wall of Ibi, where the order of spells diverges from other transmitted sequences. The unusual combination of spells and the practice of shortening spells is investigated further in the third chapter, where two sections of texts on the south wall are analysed. The fourth chapter explores garbled texts and discusses processes of copying and inscribing the texts onto the walls of pyramids. The fifth chapter analyses the modifications of the writing system in pyramids, especially the mutilation of hieroglyphs, and how this practice relates to the tradition of altering signs in pyramids. Finally, the sixth chapter synthesises the results of the preceding chapters in two sections. The first section summarises the process of inscribing pyramids and contextualises aspects of scribal practices within it. The second section concludes the thesis with a discussion of the features of the textual programme of Ibi and of how it relates to the broader transmission of mortuary literature.
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Angenot, Valérie. "La formule m) ("regarder") dans les tombes privées de la dix-huitième dynastie: approche sémiotique et herméneutique." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211365.
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Louant, Emmanuel. "Le dieu-fils Harsomtous dans les temples égyptiens d'époque tardive : étude de sa relation avec le dieu-patron du sanctuaire pour définir sa personne et ses fonctions spécifiques en tant que dieu-fils dans et hors du temple d'Edfou." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211729.
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Kassa, Adane. "Development and testing of mycoinsecticides based on submerged spores and aerial conidia of the entomopathogenic fungi Beauveria bassiana and Metarhizium anisopliae (Deuteromycotina: Hyphomycetes) for control of locusts, grasshoppers and storage pests." Doctoral thesis, Göttingen : Cuvillier, 2003. http://webdoc.sub.gwdg.de/diss/kassa/kassa.pdf.
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Colin, Frédéric. "Les Libyens en Egypte (XVe siècle A.C.-IIe siècle P.C.): onomastique et histoire." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/212498.
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Piperkov, Nikola Mihaylov. "Les visages de Mercure : commerce, alchimie, éloquence et arts d'imitation à l'époque moderne." Thesis, Paris 1, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PA01H035.
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Cette thèse traite des statues d'animaux dédiées dans les sanctuaires de Grèce continentale, des îles égéennes et de la côte d'Asie Mineure des périodes archaïque à hellénistique. Les statues, les bases de statues et les éventuelles informations épigraphiques découvertes dans des sanctuaires grecs sont rassemblées dans un catalogue archéologique tandis qu'un catalogue littéraire de sources anciennes le complète. L'étude contextuelle classifie par catégories animalières les statues des deux catalogues. Elle traite du contexte biologique des espèces, des interactions variées entre hommes et animaux, de leur place dans la littérature ancienne et la mythologie, et de leurs représentations dans le contexte religieux. L'étude se poursuit par une étude des sanctuaires receveurs, et une discussion sur le sens des offrandes par catégorie animale. L'importance de certains animaux par leur est aussi prise en considération. Une partie sculpturale s'intéresse à l'esthétique des statues, aux matériaux utilisés, aux prix de ces « anathemata », aux conditions pratiques de réalisation et d'acheminement, au coût du transport, ainsi qu'à l'identité et la spécialité des artistes. Enfin, une analyse systématique des données permet d'établir des liens entre sanctuaires, choix des animaux représentées, divinités honorées, implications géographiques et évolutions diachroniques. L'identité des offrants, publics ou privés, permet d'explorer, au-delà de la démarche religieuse les motivations politiques et implications sociales qui ont motivé les offrandes de statues animalières dans les sanctuaires grecsThis dissertation focuses on the freestanding statues of animals set as offerings, or “anathemata”, in Greek sanctuaries of the mainland, the Aegean island and the coast of Asia Minor from the Archaic to the Hellenistic periods. Surviving are gatjeres in a catalogue, along with the bases on which animal statues stood and the epigraphic material linked with freestanding animal dedications. A second catalogue lists the animal statues recorded by ancient travelers. The contextual study treats the represented animals by categories. It questions biological data, interactions between humans and animals, the place of animals in ancient Greek literature and mythology, as well as animal representations in a religious context. The receiving sanctuaries are also examined and the meanings of sculptural “anathemata” of each category is discussed. The importance of some animals by their absence is also ta ken into consideration.Observations on ancient sculpture focus on the aesthetics of animal statues, the materials used, the place of the “anathemata”, the practicalities and cost of their transport, and the identity and specialties of the sculptors. Data drawn from the catalogues are systematically analyzed in order to draw links between sanctuaries, choice of represented animals, receiving deities, geographical implications and the diachronic evolution. A study of the dedicators' identity enables the questioning to extend beyond the religious sphere, to the political motives and social implications connected to the dedication of animal statues
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Chen, Ya-Min, and 陳雅敏. "A Metalwork Creation Derived and Transformed from Hieroglyphics Symbolization." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11621183689649381723.
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Characters are a necessary method for communication and emotional expressions in human societies. On any side of the world, after social civilizations entered into the historical period and the transportation was underdeveloped, letters have been used for sending messages between distant places. Even with advanced technologies and 3C products, email, Facebook, Line and other social media nowadays still inevitably rely on the text element as a medium for communication. Hieroglyphics originated from pictures, which the humans use as text symbols, and such symbols are similar in shape with the original objects they represented. Although hieroglyphics are derived from pictures, the nature of pictures was weakened and the symbolic nature was enhanced; therefore, hieroglyphics are considered the most primitive method of orthography. In many art forms, characters are often considered an essential performing element, especially in calligraphy and seal cutting art in Chinese culture. This study generated its design from the hieroglyphic symbols, symbolized the hieroglyphics and their text styles in different eras during the evolutionary process, and then combined mixed media such as wood, stone, wax and acrylic with metal craft manifestations, in order to provide a delicate and subtle texture to the metalwork which are often considered hard, sharp and cold.
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Hull, Kerry Michael. "Verbal art and performance in Ch'orti' and Maya hieroglyphic writing." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/658.
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Hull, Kerry Michael Stross Brian Grube Nikolai. "Verbal art and performance in Ch'orti' and Maya hieroglyphic writing." 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3119531.
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Wald, Robert F. "The verbal complex in classic-period Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions: its implications for language identification and change." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/2947.
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Wald, Robert F. (Robert Francis) 1941. "The verbal complex in classic-period Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions : its implications for language identification and change." 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/13134.
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"Testerian codices: hieroglyphic catechisms for native conversion in New Spain (Latin America, Catholic Church, Indians, missionaries, Mexico)." Tulane University, 1985.
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Among the earliest attempts of converting the Middle American Indians to Christianity was through the use of pictorial catechisms called Testerian manuscripts. The early Spanish Mendicant friars used the pictorial prayer books to teach the prayers of the Roman Catholic Church considered essential for conversion. The Testerian catechisms are named after Fray Jacobo de Testera, the Franciscan friar who is thought to have developed the hieroglyphic catechisms for the conversion process. The manuscripts combined Christian iconography and symbols from the pre-conquest native codices, and were drawn with small mnemonic and rebus figures representing a syllable, word or phrase of the Christian text The research undertaken in this study is the first comprehensive analysis of a group of manuscripts that were based on the pre-Columbian native codices and created for the religious education and conversion of the Indians of New Spain. Thirty-two documents are considered in this study. An analysis of style, content and form allowed us to define eleven types of Testerian catechisms represented by five groups and six individual examples. We have also determined that only nineteen of the extant manuscripts called Testerian catechisms are actual working catechisms, and that these were created over a time period of approximately three hundred years. The survival of the Testerian method into the nineteenth century reveals the prolonged success of the oldest teaching instruments of the New World, long after the native languages were transcribed into European letters, and three centuries following the merging of the two distinct and powerful New World and European culturesacase@tulane.edu
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Burr, Jonathan Legg. "Early Proterozoic structural geology, metamorphism, and effects of pluton emplacement, southern Big Bug Tectonic Block, Hieroglyphic Mountains, central Arizona." 1992. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9305806.
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The Hieroglyphic Mountains form a northwest-southeast transect across the southern part of the Big Bug tectonic block (Yavapai Province) including the block-bounding Shylock shear zone. Litho-stratigraphic correlations suggest a stratigraphic sequence composed of mafic metavolcanic rocks overlain by phyllites and the Pike's Peak banded iron formation unconformably overlain by schists and rhyolitic meta-arenites. Intrusive igneous rocks include foliated, northwest-striking biotite $\pm$ muscovite granite plutons in the central region (1.70 Ga Crazy Basin Quartz Monzonite equivalent?), and northeast-striking, foliated, biotite $\pm$ muscovite granite in the northwest (1.682 Ga Horse Mountain granite equivalent?). The first phase of deformation locally exhibits northwest-striking foliation axial planar to recumbent folds and west-directed shear fabrics. The second phase of deformation is represented by heterogeneously developed northeast-striking and steeply northwest-dipping crenulation cleavage and mylonitic foliation, folds that plunge gently northeast in low strain zones and steeply southwest in higher strain zones. Kinematics are variable from oblique northwest-side-up (dominant), to southeast-side-up (sinistral) movement. Second phase microstructures, including northwest-striking matrix fabric, and peak mineral assemblages are spatially related to the central granites. Geothermobarometry and P-T path calculations indicate near isobaric conditions (3.0 kbar) and a temperature range of ca. 400 to 600$\sp\circ$C. Uniform pressure estimates indicate little vertical movement across the Skylock shear zone. Temperature estimates and the distribution of biotite through sillimanite zone mineral assemblages indicate a thermal gradient spatially associated with the granite plutons. Textures and chemical zoning in garnet suggests two stages of growth consistent with a zone of aureole overlap between central and northwestern granites. Extensive development of andalusite-staurolite assemblages and northwest-striking, moderately-dipping fabrics in the central region are attributed to the thermal, rheologic and stain shadow effects in the roof zone of the pluton. Other domains of lower grade and upright fabric are interpreted to be pluton margin environments. The Shylock shear zone may obscure important early convergent structures and it may typify the strain partitioning in supracrustal rocks between major zones of plutonic rocks, particularly as a response to thermally enhanced shortening deformation during the Yavapai orogeny at ca. 1.70 Ga.
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Law, Daniel Aaron. "Linguistic inheritance, social difference, and the last two thousand years of contact among Lowland Mayan languages." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2011-05-3207.
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The analysis of language contact phenomena, as with many types of linguistic analysis, starts from the similarity and difference of linguistic systems. This dissertation will examine the consequences of linguistic similarity and the social construction of difference in the ‘Lowland Mayan linguistic area’, a region spanning parts of Guatemala, Southern Mexico, Belize and Honduras, in which related languages, all belonging to the Mayan language family, have been in intensive contact with each other over at least the past two millennia. The linguistic outcomes of this contact are described in detail in the dissertation. They include contact-induced changes in the phonology, morphology, and syntax of the languages involved of a type and degree that seems to contravene otherwise robust cross-linguistic tendencies. I propose that these cross-linguistically unusual outcomes of language contact in the Maya Lowlands result, in part, from an awareness of the inherited similarities between these languages, and in part from the role that linguistic features, but not languages as whole systems, appear to have played in the formation of community or other identities.
This dissertation investigates two complementary questions about language contact phenomena that can be ideally explored through the study of languages with a high level of inherited similarity in contact with one another. The first is how historically specific, dynamic strategies and processes of constructing and asserting group identity and difference, as well as the role that language plays in these, can condition the outcomes of language contact. The second is more language internal: what role does (formal, structural) inherited similarity play in conditioning the outcome of language contact between related languages? These two questions are connected in the following hypothesis: that inherited linguistic similarity can itself be an important resource in the construction of identity and difference in particular social settings, and that the awareness of similarity between languages (mediated, as it is, by these processes of identity construction) facilitates contact-induced changes that are unlikely, or even unavailable without that perception of sameness. This proposal carries with it a call for more research on contact between related languages as related languages, and not as utterly separate systems.text
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Lundin, Gaona María Paz. "El Neptuno alegórico y su cristalización poética: análisis de los mensajes políticos, filosóficos y simbólicos del arco triunfal sorjuanino." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7537.
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Considering that during the Baroque there was arguably nothing more enigmatic than the emblematic tradition, this thesis discusses how emblems played a role in the configuration of subjectivities in New Spain and, more precisely, in their production of symbolic imagery. Through the analysis of the poetic, political, and philosophical functions of the 1680 Neptuno alegórico (Allegorical Neptune), this this study discusses the concepts of "emblem,"ekphrasis"," "syncretism," and "neoplatonic tradition" in one of the most rethorical and multifaceted texts of the humanist writer and Hieronymite nun sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695).Graduate
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Golding, Wendy Rebecca Jennifer. "The Brooklyn Papyrus (47.218.48 and 47.218.85) and its snakebite treatments." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26760.
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Bibliography: leaves 515-531The Brooklyn Papyrus (47.218.48 and 47.218.85) is the handbook of the Priests of Serqet who were called upon to treat snakebite victims in ancient Egypt. The first part of the Brooklyn Papyrus describes various snakes encountered by the ancient Egyptians, and the effects of the bites of these snakes. The second part of the Papyrus contains the numerous treatments that were used to treat the snakebite victims. The primary question of the thesis is to address how the ancient Egyptians treated snakebite victims; and if it is possible to identify the snakes that they encountered, as treatment often hinges on this identification. Additional questions are addressed, namely: What is the Brooklyn Papyrus exactly and what is its background? How does the Brooklyn Papyrus compare to the well-known ancient Egyptian medical papyri? How does the snakebite treatment of the ancient Egyptians compare to that of today’s treatment protocol? In order to answer these questions, this thesis provides my transliteration of the hieroglyphic writing into Latin script, and my translation into English, based on the hieratic to hieroglyphic transliteration done by Serge Sauneron in the late 1960s, and published in 1989 as Un Traité Egyptien d’Ophiologie. The primary aim of this thesis is to provide a transliteration and full English translation of the Brooklyn Papyrus, as none is currently available. It is clear that from the translation that one can discover exactly how snakebite was treated in ancient Egypt: what medicinal ingredients were used and how the patient was treated. Furthermore, from the text describing the snakes and the effects of their bites, one can indeed attempt to identify the species of snakes. It is also apparent from the Brooklyn Papyrus that the ancient Egyptians did recognise and accurately describe many effects of snakebite on the human body, as well as the different types of bite wounds: and they also understood the importance of being able to identify a species of snake as it very often impacted on the treatment to be prescribed—exactly as snakebite treatment is considered in medicine today
Biblical and Ancient studies
D. Litt. et Phil. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies)