Reading Egyptian Art
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Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture is a 1992 primer on Egyptian hieroglyphs written by English archaeologist Richard H. Wilkinson.The book was written from the viewpoint of seeing hieroglyphs in the context of their use in iconography of sculpture, monuments, reliefs, tomb reliefs, literature, specifically the corpus of The Book of the Dead versions for various deceased Egyptians, and other areas.
The book is arranged sequentially with the 26 categories of Gardiner's Sign List. Each entry is a detailed write-up, and a facing page of one to six graphic or photo examples, elucidating the hieroglyphs usage.
Example categories[edit]
Hippopotamus hieroglyph[edit]
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Follower Sign[edit]
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"Clenched Hand" from the palette corpus[edit]
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References[edit]
- Wilkinson, Richard H., Reading Egyptian Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Egyptian Painting and Sculpture, c 1992, 1994, Thames and Hudson; abbreviated Index, 224 pp. {softcover, ISBN 0-500-27751-6}