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Sacred Signs Hieroglyphs in Ancient Egypt

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ISBN-10: 0192802992

ISBN-13: 9780192802996

Edition: 2003

Authors: Penelope Wilson

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The hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt have fascinated people for over three thousand years. In this engaging new study, Penelope Wilson offers a wide ranging look at this ancient form of writing, touching on everything from basic principles of translation to its broader function in Egyptian culture. Sacred Signs illuminates the cultural significance of hieroglyphs, showing how it was used in monumental art and as the rarified language of the gods. Wilson points out that the Egyptian word for pictorial writing was "medu-netjer," which means "words of god." Hieroglyphs were an exalted mode of communication, used to speak with the gods or to guide rulers in the afterlife (for instance,…    
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Book details

List price: $31.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/18/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Size: 7.80" wide x 5.30" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.704

Mrs. P. A. Wilson, also the author of the compelling story The Peace Within, is a retired educator from the Jefferson County Public School District in Louisville, Kentucky. She has been a educator for thirty seven years. Mrs. Wilson has worked in many capacities and levels such as middle school, high school, an adjunct professor at Spalding University, a writing consultant, a teacher mentor, a Resource Teacher & a Coordinator/Director. She has taught in Mississippi as well as in Kentucky ranging from teaching English, writing, French, Drama, to Adult Education, Teaching Seminar, and Classroom Management.Mrs. Wilson has a Bachelor of Arts in English from Alcorn University in Lorman,…    

Picture Credits
The Origins of Writing in Egypt
Hieroglyphic Script and Egyptian Language
Hieroglyphs and Art
'I Know You, I Know Your Names'
Scribes and Everyday Writing
The Decipherment of Egyptian
Hieroglyphs in the Modern World
Notes
Chronology
Further Reading
Index