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Description:Excerpt from Karanog, Vol. 6: The Meroitic Inscriptions of Shablul and Karanog In this volume will be found not only the edition of the inscriptions announced on the title-page, but also an Introduction in which proofs are given for the readings and decipherment of Meroitic writing so far as they have proceeded to the present time, together with some evidence of the age of the inscriptions and the nature of the Meroitic language. This Introduction is the outcome of more than four years' special research. In 1907 I began to pay attention to the Meroitic texts published by Lepsius, hoping to find some connexion with Egyptian demotic on the one hand and with Christian Nubian (as deciphered by Heinrich Schafer) on the other. The vast accession of material since then, and the encouragement of friends and scholars, have made these researches more fruitful than at first seemed likely. It was early in 1907 that Dr. Randall-MacIver began his excavations in Nubia. His invitation to me to work upon the inscriptions from Shablul was quickly followed by the great discoveries of altars and stelae at Karanog which were also put into my hands. In 1909 a commission from the Egypt Exploration Fund to collect Meroitic inscriptions from all available sources enabled me to explore the rich treasures in originals and copies at Berlin, and to visit the inscribed temples and pyramids of Naga and Meroe. Lastly, in 1910, Professor Garstang's important finds of inscriptions at Meroe were entrusted to me for editing. All these masses of material, together with a few miscellaneous texts communicated by scientific colleagues or otherwise collected for the memoirs of the Egypt Exploration Fund, have kept me occupied with Meroitic from year to year until now. In other publications since Areika I give readings for the most part without proofs, reserving the latter for this volume. It may help the reader to realize the drift of the long discussions and analyses which follow, if the steps in the progress of the decipherment are first briefly recorded. A clear starting-point was furnished by the bilingual hieroglyphic cartouches of King Natakamani and Queen Amanitere. and by the name of Ammon accompanying the figure of the god in the hieroglyphic inscriptions of Naga. The importance of these had long ago been recognized by Lepsius; they indicated the sounds of seven or eight letters, and proved that the values of the Meroitic hieroglyphs were in part taken from Egyptian. But the poverty of the hieroglyphic inscriptions seemed to bar further progress in this direction until the comparatively numerous 'cursive' or 'demotic' inscriptions could be correlated with the former. The discovery at Berlin, in 1908, of a funerary text in Meroite hieroglyphic (Inscr. 60), parallel to those in demotic, gave several exact equations, letter for letter, between the hieroglyphic and the demotic signs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Karanòg, Vol. 6: The Meroitic Inscriptions of Shablul and Karanog (Classic Reprint): PAPERBACK. To get started finding Karanòg, Vol. 6: The Meroitic Inscriptions of Shablul and Karanog (Classic Reprint): PAPERBACK, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from Karanog, Vol. 6: The Meroitic Inscriptions of Shablul and Karanog In this volume will be found not only the edition of the inscriptions announced on the title-page, but also an Introduction in which proofs are given for the readings and decipherment of Meroitic writing so far as they have proceeded to the present time, together with some evidence of the age of the inscriptions and the nature of the Meroitic language. This Introduction is the outcome of more than four years' special research. In 1907 I began to pay attention to the Meroitic texts published by Lepsius, hoping to find some connexion with Egyptian demotic on the one hand and with Christian Nubian (as deciphered by Heinrich Schafer) on the other. The vast accession of material since then, and the encouragement of friends and scholars, have made these researches more fruitful than at first seemed likely. It was early in 1907 that Dr. Randall-MacIver began his excavations in Nubia. His invitation to me to work upon the inscriptions from Shablul was quickly followed by the great discoveries of altars and stelae at Karanog which were also put into my hands. In 1909 a commission from the Egypt Exploration Fund to collect Meroitic inscriptions from all available sources enabled me to explore the rich treasures in originals and copies at Berlin, and to visit the inscribed temples and pyramids of Naga and Meroe. Lastly, in 1910, Professor Garstang's important finds of inscriptions at Meroe were entrusted to me for editing. All these masses of material, together with a few miscellaneous texts communicated by scientific colleagues or otherwise collected for the memoirs of the Egypt Exploration Fund, have kept me occupied with Meroitic from year to year until now. In other publications since Areika I give readings for the most part without proofs, reserving the latter for this volume. It may help the reader to realize the drift of the long discussions and analyses which follow, if the steps in the progress of the decipherment are first briefly recorded. A clear starting-point was furnished by the bilingual hieroglyphic cartouches of King Natakamani and Queen Amanitere. and by the name of Ammon accompanying the figure of the god in the hieroglyphic inscriptions of Naga. The importance of these had long ago been recognized by Lepsius; they indicated the sounds of seven or eight letters, and proved that the values of the Meroitic hieroglyphs were in part taken from Egyptian. But the poverty of the hieroglyphic inscriptions seemed to bar further progress in this direction until the comparatively numerous 'cursive' or 'demotic' inscriptions could be correlated with the former. The discovery at Berlin, in 1908, of a funerary text in Meroite hieroglyphic (Inscr. 60), parallel to those in demotic, gave several exact equations, letter for letter, between the hieroglyphic and the demotic signs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Karanòg, Vol. 6: The Meroitic Inscriptions of Shablul and Karanog (Classic Reprint): PAPERBACK. To get started finding Karanòg, Vol. 6: The Meroitic Inscriptions of Shablul and Karanog (Classic Reprint): PAPERBACK, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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