An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary : With an Index of English Words, King List, and Geographical List with Indexes, List of Hieroglyphic Characters, Coptic and Semitic Alphabets (Vol 1)

At last an English dictionary of Egyptian hieroglyphics. This monumental worklong out of print a very hard and rare book to findwas prepared by one of the foremost Egyptologists of the century. It contains nearly 28 000 words or terms that occur in hieroglyphic texts dating from the Third Dynasty through the Roman period roughly from 3000 B.C. to 600 A.D. It is the only complete English dictionary available anywhere. For students teachers collectors libraries museums or anyone seriously interested in deciphering ancient Egyptian writings magical formulas or inscriptions for themselves this book is a must! Arranged alphabetically each entry consists of the transliteration of the word the word in hieroglyphs the meaning in English and often a literary or other textual source where the word can be found. The entries in the 915-page main dictionary include all the gods and goddesses as well as other mythological beings the principle kings of Egypt and geographical names. Professor Budge also gives in the beginning a full list of the most frequently used hieroglyphic characters arranged after the manner of printers Egyptian-type catalogues by pictorial similarity (men women gods and goddesses parts of the body animals birds reptiles fish insects plants sacred vessels weapons measures etc.) with phonetic values and meanings when used as determinatives and ideographs. Reference alphabets or syllabaries for Coptic Hebrew Syriac Arabic Ethiopic Amharic and Persian cuneiform are also here. The secondary aids are quite extensive (over 550 pages worth) and most useful. In the second volume theres an index of English words with 60 000 entries. This forms an extremely handy English-Egyptian glossary. Also included in this volume are hieroglyphic lists of royal and geographical names (with separate indexes to these lists) and indexes of Coptic and non-Egyptian words quoted in the dictionary itself (with a separate section for non-Egyptian geographical names). The long scholarly and informative introduction outlines the history of the decipherment in Europe of Egyptian hieroglyphs and lexicography (citing such pioneers as Akerblad Young Champollion le Jeune Birch Lepsius Brugsch Chabas Goodwin E. de Roug and others) explains the principles of the present work and offers a full bibliography. Everything you need to study hieroglyphs is in these two volumes.