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Marking systems such as masons' marks, property marks, pot marks, quarry marks and team marks confront us with the large variation in the use of graphic signs. They are often similar to writing, yet they are not script in the strictest sense of the word. The practical purposes of marks include claims to property and responsibilities, both individual and collective, for which also regular scripts are used. The marking systems are seen to operate in combination with writing, but frequently also in isolation. In societies that use writing, the marks appear to be strongly influenced by it: their shapes are often identical and they may be similarly arranged in lines or columns. In this sense the marking systems may be called a pseudo script, for in spite of their resemblance to writing, the signs remain mere pictograms.This volume brings together for the first time the results of research on practical marking systems in ancient Egypt and other cultures, making it possible to define the common characteristics of their appearance and their uses. It is the result of a conference hosted by the Egyptology Department at Leiden University in 2006. The great geographical and chronological range covered by the volume, the sign corpora added to many of the contributions, and the indices also make it the first important reference work on this intriguing topic.

Inscriptions, Egyptian. --- Inscriptions --- Paleography, Egyptian --- Paleography --- Inscriptions égyptiennes --- Paléographie égyptienne --- Paléographie --- Inscriptions, Egyptian --- Conferences - Meetings --- Inscriptions égyptiennes --- Paléographie égyptienne --- Paléographie

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Although of modest proportions, the burial chamber of TT 1 is decorated with many exquisite scenes, and with a wealth of inscriptions in painted hieroglyphs. These hieroglyphs are the subject of the present volume, which aims to classify, describe and explain the individual signs and their forms. The series Paléographie hiéroglyphique covers the entire period during which hieroglyphic texts were made, from the Old Kingdom to the Graeco-Roman Period. As a part of the series, this book is illustrative of a particular stage in the graphic and functional development of hieroglyphs: painted monochrome hieroglyphs in private tombs of the early Ramesside Period. The use and graphic variety of every individual sign is discussed in the commentary, and represented by samples in the palaeographical tables. A general commentary deals with the technique of painting the signs, their relation to other Pharaonic Egyptian scripts, the all-important influence of orientation on the shapes of hieroglyphs, and the mistakes and corrections made by their painter. Finally, a comparison is made between the signs in TT 1 and other tombs at Deir el-Medina that belonged to the workmen who spent their lives constructing and decorating the sepulchres of the Ramesside Pharaohs... as well as their own.

Paleography, Egyptian --- Tombs --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Paléographie égyptienne --- Tombes --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Deir el-Medina Site (Egypt) --- Deir el-Médineh (Egypte) --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Paléographie égyptienne --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Deir el-Médineh (Egypte) --- Antiquités

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As continuation of the two preceding volumes of 'Short Texts' with demotic votive inscriptions (vol. I) and mummy labels (vol. II), this volume brings together all but 800 demotic and Greek-demotic graffiti. These are in principle all the graffiti published in periodicals, congress proceedings and colloquia and 'Festschrifts', as well as in monographs that are not exclusively concerned with demotic graffiti (chiefly excavations reports). The texts are presented in topographical order from South to North, with those from a single monument kept together. The texts show the full gamut of themes encountered in demotic graffiti, which are more varied than their reputation would suggest: the commemorative inscriptions often have more to offer than just names and provide information about the careers of the inscribers, occasionally even touching on historical events of a larger scale. Specifically the numerous and variegated graffiti from the stone quarries in Middle Egypt and at Tura and Masara opposite ancient Memphis deserve to be mentioned because many of these texts are published here for the first time. Several clusters of these quarry graffiti belong to the first demotic texts that were recorded in the nineteenth century, and they constitute the only extant copies for many texts that have now been destroyed. In addition, there are some three hundred brief inscriptions on various objects such as coins, hieratic papyri and mummy linen, stelae, sculptors' models and plaques, various vases and amphoras, containers for embalming materials, dishes for the preparation of kyphi, and various other objects.

Egyptian language --- Paleography, Greek. --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Inscriptions, Egyptian --- Names, Personal --- Egyptian language. --- Inscriptions, Egyptian. --- Inscriptions, Greek. --- Names, Personal. --- Greek. --- Egypt. --- Inscriptions [Egyptian ] --- Inscriptions égyptiennes --- Opschriften [Egyptische ] --- Egypt --- Demotic, ca. 650 B.C.-450 A.D. --- Inscriptions [Greek ] --- Graffiti --- Antiquities --- Paleography, Egyptian. --- Greek --- Egyptian

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Cet ouvrage réunit et étudie les signes hiéroglyphiques figurant sur la porte d'entrée et à l'intérieur du Petit Temple d'Abou Simbel érigé par Ramsès II. Comme ses deux prédécesseurs de la collection Paléographie hiéroglyphique, ce volume se compose de deux parties. La première, consacrée au commentaire paléographique, est divisée en vingt-sept catégories en fonction de l'identité du signe. À chacun des 232 signes inventoriés est consacré un paragraphe traitant des trois points suivants : définition de la nature du signe ; mise en exergue des caractéristiques paléographiques dans le Petit Temple d'Abou Simbel et comparaison avec des parallèles remontant au Nouvel Empire ; emploi linguistique dans le Petit Temple d'Abou Simbel. Quant à la seconde partie de ce volume, consacrée aux planches, elle illustre les signes sélectionnés par 1495 dessins, reproduits principalement à partir de la publication du Petit Temple d'Abou Simbel, mais aussi, pour près de 250 signes parmi eux, redessinés à la suite de vérifications sur place ou à partir de photos.

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