From:    Paul Hume                              Area: MagickNet
To:      Ghost                                  21 Jun 96 09:33:00
Subject: Re: words                              UpdReq 

Ghost -
Howdy. I am pretty ignorant about hierglyphs in general. I have some of 
Budge's works on the langyuage, and a couple of booklets from various museums 
on Hieroglyphs. Another study that covers some useful ones is called "Reading 
Egyptian Art" - can't recall the author - who looks at the way the 
hieroglyphic words/symbols are interpolated into the iconography of the art. 
Simple example...the commonest hieroglyph for "worship" is the two upraised 
arms (put those on the hieroglyph for a kneeling man and you have the 
hieroglyph for "worshipper" for example). "Reading Egyptian Art" then 
examines the use of the arms in that position in half a dozen statues, 
paintings, etc.
 Works with interlinear translation (various Book of the Dead editions etc.)
are useful for recognizing at least the commonest spellings and ideographic 
uses (one picture, one word) of hieroglyphs. And collections like Gods Of The 
Egyptians (another by Budge) include the hieroglyphic spelling of the Gods' 
Names.
 Hope this helps,
Paul
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