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This Handbook discusses current theories with regard to the cultural setting and material realities in which Egyptian epigraphy was produced; familiarizes the reader with epigraphic and palaeographic techniques and practices; and outlines and reviews traditional and emerging techniques and challenges as a guide for future research.
Table des matières
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Vanessa Davies and Dimitri Laboury
- I. Cultural and Material Setting
- 1. Form, Layout, and Specific Potentialities of the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Script
- Pascal Vernus
- 2. The Content of Egyptian Wall Decoration
- Niv Allon
- 3. The Egyptian Theory of Monumental Writing as Related to Permanence or Endurance
- Boyo G. Ockinga
- 4. The Historical Record
- Peter Brand
- 5. Egyptian Epigraphic Genres and Their Relation with Non-epigraphic Ones
- Julie Stauder-Porchet and Andreas Stauder
- 6. Designers and Makers of Ancient Egyptian Monumental Epigraphy
- Dimitri Laboury
- 7. Audiences
- Hana Navratilova
- 8. The Materials, Tools, and Work of Carving and Painting
- Denys A. Stocks
- 9. Recording Epigraphic Sources as Part of Artworks
- Gabriele Pieke
- II. Historical Efforts at Epigraphy
- 1. When Ancient Egyptians Copied Egyptian Work
- Tamás A. Bács
- 2. When Classical Authors Encountered Egyptian Epigraphy
- Jean Winand
- 3. Interpretations and Re-use of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Arabic Period (Tenth-Sixteenth Centuries CE)
- Annette Sundermeyer
- 4. The Reception of Ancient Egypt and Its Script in Renaissance Europe
- Lucie Jirásková
- 5. The Epigraphy of Egyptian Monuments in the Description de l'Égypte
- Éric Gady
- 6. The Rosetta Stone, Copying an Ancient Copy
- Ilona Regulski
- 7. The Epigraphic Work of Early Egyptologists and Travelers to Egypt
- Lise Manniche
- 8. Karl Richard Lepsius and The Royal Prussian Expedition to Egypt (1842-1845/6)
- Christian E. Loeben
- 9. Nineteenth-Century Foundations of Modern Epigraphy
- Virginia L. Emery
- 10. Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Developments in Epigraphy
- Vanessa Davies
- III. Traditional and New Techniques of Epigraphy
- 1. How to Publish an Egyptian Temple?
- Claude Traunecker
- 2. Epigraphic Techniques Used by the Edfu Project
- Dieter Kurth
- 3. Online Publication of Monuments
- Willeke Wendrich
- 4. Tradition and Innovation in Digital Epigraphy
- Krisztián Vértes
- 5. 3D scanning, Photogrammetry, and Photo Rectification of Columns in the Karnak Hypostyle Hall
- Jean Revez
- 6. An Assessment of Digital Epigraphy and Related Technologies
- Peter Der Manuelian
- 7. Typical, Atypical, and Downright Strange Epigraphic Techniques
- Will Schenck
- 8. The Chicago House Method
- J. Brett McClain
- 9. The So-called "Karnak Method"
- Christophe Thiers
- 10. Practical Issues Concerning Epigraphic Work in Tombs and Temples
- Hanane Gaber
- 11. The Application of a Logic of Writing-Imagery to Palaeographic Interpretation in the Formative Phase of Writing
- Ludwig Morenz
- 12. Reading, Editing, and Appreciating the Texts of Greco-Roman Temples
- Laure Pantalacci
- 13. History of Recording Demotic Epigraphy
- Jan Moje
- 14. Graffiti
- Chiara Salvador
- 15. Practical Issues with the Epigraphic Restoration of a Biographical Inscription
- Andrés Diego Espinel
- 16. Relationships between the Community of Sheikh Abd al-Qurna and Ancient Egyptian Monuments
- Andrew Bednarski and Gemma Tully
- IV. Issues in Paleography
- 1. The Significance of Medium in Palaeographic Study
- Dimitri Meeks
- 2. Hieroglyphic Palaeography
- Frédéric Servajean
- 3. Methods, Tools, and Perspectives of Hieratic Palaeography
- Stéphane Polis
- 4. Carved Hybrid Script
- Mohamed Sherif Ali
- 5. Cursive Hieroglyphs in the Book of the Dead
- Rita Lucarelli
- 6. Some Issues in and Perhaps a New Methodology for Abnormal Hieratic
- Koen Donker van Heel
- 7. Demotic Palaeography
- Joachim Quack, Jannik Korte, Fabian Wespi, Claudia Maderna-Sieben
- 8. Issues and Methodologies in Coptic Palaeography
- Anne Boud'hors
- 9. Digital Palaeography of Hieratic
- Svenja A. Gülden, Celia Krause, Ursula Verhoeven
- 10. Hieratic Palaeography in Literary and Documentary Texts from Deir el-Medina
- Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert
- Index
A propos de l'auteur
Vanessa Davies, Ph.D., is an Egyptologist. She has published on the interplay of ancient Egyptian text and art, epigraphy, and the palaeography of hieroglyphs.
Dimitri Laboury, Ph.D., is Research Director of the FNRS and Associate Professor at the University of Liège, Belgium. As an Egyptologist, he specializes in the study of ancient Egyptian art and artists.
Résumé
This Handbook discusses current theories with regard to the cultural setting and material realities in which Egyptian epigraphy was produced; familiarizes the reader with epigraphic and palaeographic techniques and practices; and outlines and reviews traditional and emerging techniques and challenges as a guide for future research.
