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Ancient Egyptian I [ LGLOR1622 ]


6.0 crédits ECTS  30.0 h   1+2q 

Ce cours bisannuel est dispensé en 2011-2012, 2013-2014, ...

Teacher(s) Obsomer Claude ;
Language French
Place
of the course
Louvain-la-Neuve
Online resources

The Power-point on the decipherment of hieroglyphs, the hieroglyphic captions for the illustrations, and  the hieroglyphic text of the Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor,etc. are available on the iCampus server.

Prerequisites

- For the level 1.1, none.
- For the level 1.2, the course LGLOR 1621 (level 1.1)

Main themes

Alternately with LGLOR 1621, this course is given to two distinct groups of students according to their level.

- For the level I.1 (beginners), it deals with hieroglyphic writing, basic vocabulary, the nominal morphology and the non-verbal sentences syntax.
- For the level I.2, it deals with the verbal morphology, the verbal sentences syntax, as well as a translation, with commentary, of a classic literary text.

Students attending this course during their preparatory year to the Master in Ancient Languages and Literatures (Oriental Languages) will receive specific guidelines enabling them to get in one year the necessary skills as required by the end of the two levels.

Aims

An initiation into Middle Egyptian, the classic language of pharaonic Egypt.

At the end of this course, which implies following the course LGLOR 1621 also, the student will be capable of reading, transliterating and translating a hieroglyphic text in Middle Egyptian of average difficulty. In order to achieve this goal, he will have acquired the essential writing signs, the basic vocabulary, and the necessary grammatical structures.

Evaluation methods

Oral exam, on the basis of a written preparation. This is explained in a document contained in iCampus.

Teaching methods

The main course is given on the basis of the interactive DVD, projected in the class. Conceived specially for the course, this DVD gives, in order, the different questions treated, including the exercises illustrating each point of theory. These exercises will have been prepared by the students.

The translation of  the Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor will done on the basis of the transliteration proposed by the students and corrected on  the board by the lecturer. The accent is placed on the structure and components of the sentences, as well as the analysis of the verbal forms that are met.

Content

Middle Egyptian is the classic language of pharaonic Egypt as used in the first half of the 2nd millennium, from the Middle Kingdom to the beginnings of the New Kingdom.

- Level 1.1: after an introduction on the decipherment of hieroglyphs by Champollion, the course gives a progressive discovery of the system of writing that arrives at a memorisation of the most frequent signs and at a basic vocabulary. It then examines the morphology of nouns(nouns,adjectives,pronouns ,determinatives......) and the composition of non-verbal sentences (with the verb "to be" to be added).
- Level 1.2: the course goes into the morphology of verbs (roots,infinitives, participles, suffix forms......), as well as the syntax of verbal sentences. To this is added a translation, with commentary, of the Tale of the Shipwrecked Sailor and a discovery of the hieroglyphic captions accompanying carved scenes.

Bibliography

Claude Obsomer, Egyptien hieroglyphique, Bruxelles, Safran 2009( interactive DVD, grammar and book of exercises).

Other information

The timetable will be fixed by the lecturer in consultation with the  students interested by this course at the beginning of the year.

Cycle et année
d'étude
> Preparotory Year for Master in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies
> Bachelor in Ancient Languages and Literatures: Oriental Studies
> Bachelor in Ancient and Modern Languages and Literatures
> Bachelor in Information and Communication
> Bachelor in Philosophy
> Bachelor in Pharmacy
> Bachelor in Ancient languages and Literatures : Classics
> Bachelor in Psychology and Education: General
> Bachelor in Modern Languages and Literatures: German, Dutch and English
> Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Literatures : General
> Bachelor in Economics and Management
> Bachelor in Motor skills : General
> Bachelor in Human and Social Sciences
> Bachelor in Modern Languages and Literatures : General
> Bachelor in Sociology and Anthropology
> Bachelor in Political Sciences: General
> Bachelor in History of Art and Archaeology : General
> Bachelor in Biomedicine
> Bachelor in Mathematics
> Bachelor in History
> Bachelor in Religious Studies
Faculty or entity
in charge
> GLOR


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