古埃及象形文学习入门.pdf

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Ancient Egypt is often iture, sarcophagi and
coffins, and even on papyrus. It could either be inscribed or
drawn and often the signs would be painted in many colours.
The quality of the writing would vary from highly detailed
signs to mere outlines.
Nicely sculpted
Drawn on papyrus or on linen, the signs would often be hieroglyphic signs on a
simplified but they would still be recognisable as individual piece of stone at the
signs. A special, cursive form of hieroglyphic writing was Louvre Museum.
used for the Book of the Dead. This style was also used for
the texts in the tombs of the 18th Dynasty kings Thutmosis
III and Amenhotep II, giving the impression that a large
papyrus scroll was unrolled against the Papyrus of Ani uses a
special, more cursive
form of hieroglyphic
writing.
Hieratic
Hieratic writing is as old as hieroglyphic, but it is more
cursive and the result of a quick hand drawing signs on a
sheet of papyrus with a reed brush. While writing, the scribe
would often omit several details that made one sign different
from another. The sign , for instance, representing an
arm and a hand holding something, would be written in the
same way as the sign , which simply represents an
arm and a hand and normally has an entirely different
meaning. Several smaller signs, written in one quick flow,
would melt together, but despite this, the hieratic text can
still be transcribed into hieroglyphics.
Hieratic was mainly used for religious and secular writings
on papyrus or on linen and during the Greek-Roman era
occasionally in an inscription of a temple 'Satire of