Signs of Life: Ancient Egyptian Script, Language, and Writing: Studies in Honour of Orly Goldwasser

In recent decades, the Ancient Egyptian realm of pictorial script and meta-textuality has been the focus of many research projects. Foremost among them is the innovative and ground-breaking sub-field that was helmed by Prof. Orly Goldwasser, exploring the study of classifiers and the ways in which Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs mirror the Ancient Egyptian mind. Taking Goldwasser's pioneering work as its inspiration, this volume draws together contributions from some of the leading voices in Egyptology and neighbouring fields to illuminate different aspects of the use of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, their semiotic value, and of the language that they record, as well as looking more broadly at the use of signs, pictorial systems, script, learning processes, and classifications. Together, these chapters offer a unique and multi-layered picture of the ways in which Ancient Egyptian language and Hieroglyphs emerged within Ancient Egyptian culture, and the means by which they interacted with other script systems and languages. Front Matter 1. Le signe composite L7 de la déesse Serket. Nathalie Beaux 2. Two Seals from a Late Bronze Age Burial at Tel Bene Beraq. Irit Ziffer, Ron Be’eri, Dor Golan, Ayelet Dayan, and Gil Haklay 3. Layers of Meaning: Iconicity Patterns in Anatolian Hieroglyphic Inscriptions. Annick Payne 4. Non-textual Markings from Thebes. New Interpretations and Lasting Enigmas. Julia Budka 5. The ‘Determinatives’ of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs Are ‘Root Classifiers’. How Egyptology and Linguistics Met to Show It. Colette Grinevald 6. Classifying beyond Classifiers. Jean Winand 7. Variation in Classifier Use: Counting People in Burmese. Dörte Borchers 8. Ridiculing the Nomads. On Dehumanizing Strategies in the Old Babylonian School. Gebhard J. Selz 9. The Secondary Future Paradigm tw=j/tw=k/tw=tw/noun+r+ Infinitive and its Reflex in ‘égyptien de tradition’. Pascal Vernus 10. The King’s Purest Joy. Some Remarks on Two Hitherto Neglected Epithets of Queen Nefertiti. Roman Gundacker 11. The West Semitic Alphabet in Iron I and IIA or c. 1100–800 BCE. A Recently Transformed Picture, for Once, Based on Stratified Inscriptions. Benjamin Sass 12. Learning to Write in Hebrew. Ruth A. Berman 13. Familiarly Foreign: Canaanite Gods inNew Kingdom Egypt (1550–1070 BCE). Niv Allon 14. A Foreign Bloom: Narrating the Tale of p-r-ḫ across Egyptian Texts. Haleli Harel 15. The Meaning of Golem: Psalm 139.16 and Afroasiatic Lexicology in Dialogue. Thomas Schneider 16. Horse Names and Chariots. Anthony Spalinger 17. On the Origin of Multi-Statuary Ka‐Temples. Manfred Bietak