The Oxford handbook of Egyptian epigraphy and palaeography / edited by Vanessa Davies and Dimitri Laboury.

The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture's records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts. Epigraphy and palaeography are two distinct...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Oxford Handbooks Online)
Other Authors: Davies, Vanessa (Vanessa Rowena Hazel) (Editor), Laboury, Dimitri (Editor)
Other title:Egyptian epigraphy and paleography.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Series:Oxford handbooks online.
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Table of Contents:
  • Form, Layout, and Specific Potentialities of the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Script / Pascal Vernus
  • When Classical Authors Encountered Egyptian Epigraphy / Jean Winand
  • Interpretations and Re-use of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Arabic Period (Tenth-Sixteenth Centuries CE) / Annette Sundermeyer
  • The Reception of Ancient Egypt and Its Script in Renaissance Europe / Lucie Jirásková
  • The Rosetta Stone, Copying an Ancient Copy / Ilona Regulski
  • The Epigraphic Work of Early Egyptologists and Travelers to Egypt / Lise Manniche
  • Karl Richard Lepsius and The Royal Prussian Expedition to Egypt (1842-1845/6) / Christian E. Loeben
  • Nineteenth-Century Foundations of Modern Epigraphy / Virginia L. Emery
  • Recording Epigraphic Sources as Part of Artworks / Gabriele Pieke
  • Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Developments in Epigraphy / Vanessa Davies
  • The Content of Egyptian Wall Decoration / Niv Allon
  • Epigraphic Techniques Used by the Edfu Project / Dieter Kurth
  • Online Publication of Monuments / Willeke Wendrich
  • Tradition and Innovation in Digital Epigraphy / Krisztián Vértes
  • 3D scanning, Photogrammetry, and Photo Rectification of Columns in the Karnak Hypostyle Hall / Jean Revez
  • An Assessment of Digital Epigraphy and Related Technologies / Peter Der Manuelian
  • Typical, Atypical, and Downright Strange Epigraphic Techniques / William Schenck
  • The Chicago House Method / J. Brett McClain
  • The So-Called Karnak Method / Christophe Thiers
  • Practical Issues Concerning Epigraphic Work in Tombs and Temples / Hanane Gaber
  • The Egyptian Theory of Monumental Writing as Related to Permanence or Endurance / Boyo G. Ockinga
  • The Application of a Logic of Writing-Imagery to Palaeographic Interpretation in the Formative Phase of Writing / Ludwig Morenz
  • Reading, Editing, and Appreciating the Texts of Greco-Roman Temples / Laure Pantalacci
  • History of Recording Demotic Epigraphy / Jan Moje
  • Graffiti / Chiara Salvador
  • Practical Issues with the Epigraphic Restoration of a Biographical Inscription / Andrés Diego Espinel
  • Aspects of the Relationships between the Community of Sheikh Abd al-Qurna and Ancient Egyptian Monuments / Andrew Bednarski, Gemma Tully
  • How to Publish an Egyptian Temple? / Claude Traunecker
  • The Significance of Medium in Palaeographic Study / Dimitri Meeks
  • Hieroglyphic Palaeography / Frédéric Servajean
  • Methods, Tools, and Perspectives of Hieratic Palaeography / Stéphane Polis
  • The Historical Record / Peter J. Brand
  • Carved Hybrid Script / Mohamed Sherif Ali
  • Cursive Hieroglyphs in the Book of the Dead / Rita Lucarelli
  • Digital Palaeography of Hieratic / Svenja A. Gülden, Celia Krause, Ursula Verhoeven
  • Hieratic Palaeography in Literary and Documentary Texts from Deir el-Medina / Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert
  • Some Issues in and Perhaps a New Methodology for Abnormal Hieratic / Koenraad Donker van Heel
  • Demotic Palaeography / Joachim Quack, Jannik Korte, Fabian Wespi, Claudia Maderna-Sieben
  • Issues and Methodologies in Coptic Palaeography / Anne Boud'hors
  • Egyptian Epigraphic Genres and Their Relation with Non-epigraphic Ones / Julie Stauder-Porchet, Andréas Stauder
  • The Epigraphy of Egyptian Monuments in the Description de l'Égypte / Éric Gady
  • Audiences / Hana Navratilova
  • Designers and Makers of Ancient Egyptian Monumental Epigraphy / Dimitri Laboury
  • The Materials, Tools, and Work of Carving and Painting / Denys A. Stocks
  • When Ancient Egyptians Copied Egyptian Work / Tamás A. Bács.