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ISBN 10: 0190604654
ISBN 13: 9780190604653
Author: Vanessa Davies, Dimitri Laboury
The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture’s records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts. Epigraphy and palaeography are two distinct, but closely related, ways of recording, analyzing, and interpreting texts and images. This Handbook stresses technical issues about recording text and art and interpretive questions about what we do with those records and why we do it. It offers readers three key things: a diachronic perspective, covering all ancient Egyptian scripts from prehistoric Egypt through the Coptic era (fourth millennium BCE-first half of first millennium CE), a look at recording techniques that considers the past, present, and future, and a focus on the experiences of colleagues. The diachronic perspective illustrates the range of techniques used to record different phases of writing in different media. The consideration of past, present, and future techniques allows readers to understand and assess why epigraphy and palaeography is or was done in a particular manner by linking the aims of a particular effort with the technique chosen to reach those aims. The choice of techniques is a matter of goals and the records’ work circumstances, an inevitable consequence of epigraphy being a double projection: geometrical, transcribing in two dimensions an object that exists physically in three; and mental, an interpretation, with an inevitable selection among the object’s defining characteristics. The experiences of colleagues provide a range of perspectives and opinions about issues such as techniques of recording, challenges faced in the field, and ways of reading and interpreting text and image. These accounts are interesting and instructive stories of innovation in the face of scientific conundrum.
The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography 1st Table of contents:
I. Cultural and Material Setting
1. Form, Layout, and Specific Potentialities of the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Script
The Basic Figurativity of the Egyptian Hieroglyphic Script
Inventory of Signs
Specific Constraints on Hieroglyphs
Examples of Arrangements
Exploiting the Specific Potentialities of Hieroglyphic Script
A Script Adapted to Object and Monuments
2. The Content of Egyptian Wall Decoration
Context
Multimodality: Text and Image
Repertoire and Variation
Concluding Remarks
3. The Egyptian Theory of Monumental Writing as Related to Permanence or Endurance
The Monument as a Means to Overcome Transience
Measures Taken to Ensure the Preservation of Monuments and Inscriptions
The Restoration of Damaged Monuments
4. The Historical Record
Introduction
Epigraphy and Historical Methodology
Problems of Terminology
Monumental Appropriation of Cartouches and Erasure of Royal Inscriptions in the Ramesside Period
The Question of Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Dynasty Coregencies
Conclusions: Epigraphy as a Tool for History
5. Egyptian Epigraphic Genres and Their Relation with Nonepigraphic Ones
General Features of Egyptian Inscriptions
The Early Development of Primary Epigraphic Genres
The Diversification of Genres
Relations between Lapidary Genres and with Nonlapidary Ones
6. Designers and Makers of Ancient Egyptian Monumental Epigraphy
Social Identities, Education, and Training
Practicalities
Conclusion
7. Audiences
Introduction
Addressing Royal and Divine Spectators
Addressing Posterity: Memory on Earth
Participating Audience: Second and Third Hands on the Monument
Graffiti
Temple Visitors and Staff
Visitors’ Graffiti and Copyists
Concluding Remarks
8. The Materials, Tools, and Work of Carving and Painting
Introduction
Stone Carving Tools
Experimental Toolmaking and Use
Experimental Carving and Incising of Sedimentary Rock, Wood, Plaster, and Metal
Experimental Carving of Igneous Stones
Flat Surface and Relief Painting
Physical Conditions Affecting Stone Carvers and Painters
9. Recording Epigraphic Sources as Part of Artworks
Art and Text: Point of Departure
A Line Is a Line: Different Techniques of Recording
Line Drawing
The Devil Is in the Details: Dealing with Different Art Genres
Let’s Do It! An Appeal Instead of a Summary
II. Historical Efforts at Epigraphy
1. When Ancient Egyptians Copied Egyptian Work
Introduction
Copying as Training
Copying as Practice
Dynamics of Copying
2. When Classical Authors Encountered Egyptian Epigraphy
The Corpus
The Sources
The Terminology
Describing a Hieroglyphic Text?
Understanding the Mechanisms, Principles, and Uses of Ancient Egyptian Writing
Conclusion
3. Interpretations and Reuse of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Arabic Period (Tenth–Sixteenth Centuries CE)
Overview
Tenth Century CE: The Book of the Long Desired Fulfilled Knowledge of Occult Alphabets
Later Alphabet Books (Thirteenth to Fifteenth Centuries)
The Book of the Seven Climes on the Science Called the Art
Conclusion
4. The Reception of Ancient Egypt and Its Script in Renaissance Europe
Early Travelers to Egypt and Egyptian Monuments in Europe
Early Approaches to Hieroglyphic Script
Rise of Hermetism
5. The Epigraphy of Egyptian Monuments in the Description de l’Égypte
Who Were the Scientists Who Copied Egyptian Monuments?
What Was the Scientists’ Mission?
How Did They Work?
What Was the Result of Their Work?
6. The Rosetta Stone, Copying an Ancient Copy
Introduction
The Rosetta Stone, A Contemporary Copy
The Rosetta Stone as a Printing Block: The First Copies Made in Egypt
Sic Vos Non Vobis (“For You But Not Yours”)
Epigraphy as a Source of Nationalistic Competition
7. The Epigraphic Work of Early Egyptologists and Travelers to Egypt
George Zoëga (1755–1809)
The Napoleonic Expedition
Frédéric Cailliaud (1787–1869)
Louis Maurice Adolphe Linant de Bellefonds (1789–1883)
William Bankes (1786–1855)
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823)
John Gardner Wilkinson (1797–1875)
Robert Hay (1799–1863)
Joseph Bonomi (1796–1878)
James Burton (1788–1862)
Jean François Champollion (1790–1832), Ippolito Rosellini (1800–1843), and the Franco-Tuscan Expedition 1828–1829
Nestor l’Hôte (1804–1841)
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