16:30 Uhr
The evolution of monumental hieroglyphic writing during the Eighteenth Dynasty. Notes on signs Gardiner G1, R5 and V17 and the epigraphic ending of pseudo-participle
Edyta Kopp | University of Warsaw | Poland
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Edyta Kopp | University of Warsaw | Poland
Some hieroglyphs used in the decoration of the temples during the Eighteenth Dynasty show distinctive evolution of their shape, increasing the inventory of monumental signs used also in later times. The diachronic research on the process allows for proposing some dating criteria for occurrences of some signs under the condition of noting carefully the genre and writing material. In part the pattern of disseminating the new forms of signs can be reconstructed as based on the private, less formal context. Actually, the merging of the cursive hieroglyphs and new writings into the repertoire of hieroglyphs of the temple inscriptions can be phased in two crucial moments of the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty and the post-Amarna period. The evolution of the following signs will be discussed in a wider diachronic context: Egyptian vulture (Gardiner G1), rolled up herdsman’s shelter of papyrus (Gardiner V17) and censer for fumigation (Gardiner R5). The epigraphic peculiarities of the Eighteenth Dynasty writing are present in the grammar of the contemporary monumental inscriptions in the realization of the second person singular ending of pseudo-participle by the sign of the rope for tethering animals (Gardiner V13), confusing the understanding of the restored texts of Hatshepsut.
17:00 Uhr
Stages of blooming: The interaction of lexical and scriptal innovations across Egyptian scripts
Haleli Harel | Hebrew university of Jerusalem | Israel
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Haleli Harel | Hebrew university of Jerusalem | Israel
The Egyptian water lily was the prototypical flower in ancient Egyptian script. This talk will retell the emergence and diachrony of flower glyphs across ancient Egyptian scripts. Next, it will offer a case study of the interaction of lexical and scriptal innovations in the domain of flora. During the New Kingdom, the lexicon of flora changed and expanded. At the same time, new signs appeared in the script, representing stages in the lifespan of the lotus flower, such as a budding lotus. These innovations coincided with pictorial representations showing the expansion of the visual repertoire of flora early in the 18th dynasty (e.g., Beaux 1990, 148-157). The scriptal representation of flora will be collected and presented as a semantic network. This will enable us to explore the semantic and semiotic range of flora and to tie between scriptal and lexical change. The variety of hieratic and hieroglyphic representations of floral signs in various texts and their classification patterns will be explored to suggest conceptual changes in the representation and categorization of flora.
17:30 Uhr
How to monumentalize linear hieroglyphs: polychrome inscriptions in New Kingdom manuscripts
Marina Sartori | University of Oxford | United Kingdom
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Marina Sartori | University of Oxford | United Kingdom
A small number of 18th Dynasty manuscripts, originating from Theban tombs and containing the funerary composition Going Out in Daylight (ms. Nakht BM EA10473, p. Leiden T2, p. Cairo CG51189) feature sections written in polychrome hieroglyphs, as opposed to the usual black linear script. Such a “transfuge graphique” (as defined by Ragazzoli and Albert) is highly exceptional, as polychrome hieroglyphs are characteristic of monumental contexts, and not of papyri.
The paper aims to identify the strategies adopted by New Kingdom scribes to convert the usual cursive script into forms comparable with hieroglyphs in tombs and temples, thus transferring monumental palaeography on an unusual support (leather, papyrus vs. stone, plaster). My methodology includes an analysis of the scribal characteristics of ms. Nakht (personally examined in the British Museum), as well as comparisons of polychrome hieroglyphs both from the other manuscripts and contemporaneous funerary media. Particular attention will be given to the use of color, to evaluate whether the same conventions apply. The result will be a theorisation of graphic registers in funerary papyri and a better understanding of the connections between the scribal culture responsible for their production and that of large-scale monuments.