Egyptian: An Introduction to the Writing and Language of the Middle Kingdom: Volume II: Sign Lists, Exercices and Reading Texts 2

Summary: This Is A Data-oriented Grammatical Description Of Middle Egyptian, A Now Extinct Pharaonic Language, Spoken And Written In The Hieroglyphic And Hieratic Scripts, Between 2100 And 1700 Before Our Era, The Period Of The Middle Kingdom. Middle Egyptian Was Regarded By The Egyptians As A Classical Stage Of Their Language And It Remained In Use For A Long Time After That Period. Middle Egyptian Texts Are Extremely Varied And Comprise Stories, Historical Narratives, Letters, Scientific Treatises, And A Large Number Of Religious Sources. The First Volume Is A Systematic Description Of The Language, Illustrated By A Great Number Of Quotations From Original Texts, And Provided With Word Lists And Other Indexes. The Second Volume Leads The Reader In A Gradual Way In 33 Lessons Through The Grammatical Description Provided In The First Volume, And Moreover Contains An Extensive List Of Hieroglyphic Signs And Their Values, Exercises And, Finally, Original Texts For Reading. I. Grammar, Syntax And Indexes -- Ii. Sign Lists, Exercise, And Reading Texts. J.f. Borghouts. SIGN LISTS Introduction; Signs and their values List 1: Descriptive List 2: Systematic List 3: Signs arranged according to size & form List 4: Hieroglyphs handwritten SECTIONS Introduction to the Exercises in the 33 Sections Section 1 Section 2 Section 3 Section 4 Section5 Section 6 Section 7 Section 8 Section 9 Section 10 Section 11 Section 12 Section 13 Section 14 Section 15 Section 16 Section 17 Section 18 Section 19 Section 20 Section21 Section 22 Section 23 Section 24 Section 25 Section 26 Section 27 Section 28 Section 29 Section 30 Section 31 Section 32 Section 33 READING TEXTS Survey of the Reading Texts 1 Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor 2 stela Louvre C. 12 3 stela Louvre C. 11 4 stela Berlin 1157 5 stela Tubingen 458 6 stela Leiden V.88 7 stela New York/MMA 12.184 8 stela Leiden V.4 9 stela Cairo CG 20809 10 pap.Lahunfü.C.L. 32199 [= II.2] 11 Wadi Hamm am at 191 12 Coffin Texts spell [315] 13 pap. Turin CG 54003, rt., 9-12 14 from the Teaching of vizier Ptahhotep 15 from the Teaching for king Merikare4 16 Aswan inscription of king Thutmosis II 17 Book of the Dead spell [6] (from shabti B.M. 35365) 18 Book of the Dead spell [30A] (from the papyrus of Nu) 19 stela New York/M.M.A. 17.190.160 20 stela Copenhagen/Ny Carlsb. Glypt. AEIN49 NOTES TO THE READING TEXTS