Hatshpset wrote:dear caiyros - it's not so much knowledge but rather my passion for all things ancient egyptian. i was just a little sponge trying to soak up all the knowledge i could learn on my own. i would love to learn the spoken language even at my advanced age - and i am reacquainting myself with the hieroglyphic alphabet as well as it's grammar - talk about difficult! wow howdy! i'm transcribing a cartouche soapstone ring with uraeus i managed to acquire (i think it is rameses but want to have it validated) as well as a stelite faience cup with hieroglyphs in three columns down the front. i plan to enjoy delving back into this and sometimes even though i don't recall the sign, the glyphs just seem so familiar to me. just more work to keep my mind busy. yes, i'm still working on my novel you suggested as well - philly gurl-jersey gurl and back, is coming along well and very easily too. thank you! namaste, arsine
It will take me a month to find them (if I'm lucky!) but somewhere in Vermont are my class notes on Egyptian Hieroglyphics and copy them for you. Budge's little book of E-H is badly organized, Budge's EGyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary is magnificent, Sir Alan Gardiner's Egyptian Grammer is much better organized and has amazing information, and there have to be some new books I don't know about.
The breakdown of the Hieroglyphic Alphabet is key:
there are different silmultaneous "alphabets" and they can be used in intermingled fashions.
"Egyptian Alphabets:
0. No sound - silent image - complete meaning
1. single syllables - very common and a lot
3. double syllables - same
3. triple syllables - not so many
4 & 5 - only a few
AND the Silent image hieroglyphic can be used simultaneously with any other combination
2 major verb forms usually very complicated explanations, but they break down into 2 basic patterns:
Verb form 1: "For a while"
Verb form 2: "Forever"
Blessings,
Caiyros