JAL328H1 Lecture Notes - Prehistoric Egypt, Egyptian Language, Hieratic

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16 Dec 2013
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Half on history/culture; half on how the writing works (ie. logograms, phonograms, etc. ) Need to know: all three lectures; know how the scripts work. Before egyptian hieroglyphics proper, there were inscriptions, marks, images on various objects. A tomb in abydos pre-dynastic egypt within it, there were a bunch of objects that people were buried in; there was pottery; clay tags. Some of these symbols present in earlier art forms . Symbols were showing up on pieces of pottery, art, - around 3200 bce, these symbols vanish except in royal tombs. Trying to figure out what has been written when you don"t undersand the language. One of the good ideas if king dies, big ceremony important families attend, bring gifts with tags, which may represent family names. Or places where the gifts were given from. Increases to 1000 then drops to 300 very small local group of people start using these tags back to standardization.

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