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Aspects of Demotic Orthography - Acts of an International Colloquium Held in Trier, 8 November 2010 (Paperback)
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Aspects of Demotic Orthography - Acts of an International Colloquium Held in Trier, 8 November 2010 (Paperback)
Series: Studia Demotica, v.11
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While mankind's fascination with the scripts of ancient Egypt has
been a constant across the centuries, their study as part of modern
Egyptology is only as old as the decipherment of the hieroglyphs by
Champollion, now nearly two centuries ago. Although we feel
confident that, at least in theory, we thoroughly understand these
scripts, practical difficulties in reading the cursive variants of
hieratic and demotic remain. These are often such that they
constantly bring to mind the sometimes abstruse associations by
which the ancient scribes arrived at the various orthographies they
invented for writing the complex lingual structures. Demotic is a
particularly interesting case in point, as it belongs to the
multi-layered textual world of the Graeco-Roman period, where
hieroglyphs, hieratic and demotic are usually found in
complementary use, but also occasionally in competition with each
other. In their variety, the studies presented in these Acts bear
witness to the rich texture of the script by investigating several
parameters by which it may be measured, including the reading of
individual signs and grammatical categories such as verbal
morphology. Indices of words and signs discussed, as well as a full
bibliography of studies in monographs and articles relating to the
topic, complete the volume.
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