BOOKS - HISTORY - The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography
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The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography
Author: Vanessa Davies, Dimitri Laboury
Year: 2020
Number of pages: 712
Format: EPUB
File size: 13,0 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2020
Number of pages: 712
Format: EPUB
File size: 13,0 MB
Language: ENG
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, but closely related, ways of recording, analyzing, and interpreting texts and images.