Egyptian Hieroglyphics: How to Read and Write Them

by Stephane Rossini

Book Overview

Clear, easy-to-follow text tells absolute beginners how to transcribe hieroglyphs by presenting and explaining 134 phonetic elements. Included are an explanatory introduction, section on word... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486260135
• ISBN13: 9780486260136
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.4" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Five stars for a great intro or addition to hieroglyphics.

Pictures, pronunciation, and small details to make this book a great resource. Approx. 2-3 hieroglyphics per page in large script. Great for a novice egyptologist or interested person of egypt's past. Must have!

Basically a nice visual dictionary for artists.

This lovely book has been around for about ten years. Stephane Rossini is a scholar, but her purpose here is more practical, I think. Although the title says, "How to read and write them," the real value of this book is about how to draw & use hieroglyphics in your arts & crafts with some accuracy as to their meanings. About five pages of this book are given (in small print) to principles of Egyptian writing, pronunciation & word analysis. The rest of the book is crammed with hundreds of excellent drawings & calligraphic symbols, divided into consonant sounds, phonetic signs, & determinative (categorical) signs. To put it simply, you get birds, bugs, gods, knots, flowers, eyes, mammals, fish, figures doing different jobs, lizards, crosses & abstractions, all in an authentic Egyptuan style. With adult guidance, Egyptian Hieroglyphics will be useful in children's arts & crafts projects. 96 pages long, nothing fancy about it. I've had a copy on arts book shelf for years.

A good book

This book is good. It really helps you learn Hieroglyphics

extensively illustrated, little in way of grammer, etc.,

this book is almost all illustrations. Contains a short summary explaining grammar, though not in -depth. Good sign list, also shows how to draw glyphs. Might be good as a reference, but for serious student it will not stand alone.