Ancient Egyptian II [ LGLOR2622 ]

The iCampus server allows one to obtain:

- notes for the initiation into neo-Egyptian.
- original photographs of the inscriptions for translations
- copies of texts available in numerical form.

LGLOR 1621 and LGLOR 1622 a course deemed equivalent by the lecturer.

Alternately with LGLOR2621, this course deals with the following themes:

1. Translation, with comments, of a literary text in Middle Egyptian (15 hours lectures);
2. Personal translation of another text in Middle Egyptian (15 hours exercises);
3. Translation, with commentaries, of royal and private inscriptions (15 hours lectures);
4. An initiation into Late Egyptian and the translation, with commentaries, of a text (15 hours lectures);
5. An initiation into hieratic writing or an exercise of epigraphy (7.5 hours exercises).

Students who are following the course partim (5 credits) will follow themes 1, 3 and 5.

In-depth study of the language and texts of Pharaonic Egypt.

At the end of this course the student will be capable to read, transliterate and translate easily epigraphic and literary texts in Middle Egyptian. In addition, he will have been introduced to hieratic writing and to Late Egyptian, and will have read a text of the Ramesside périod.

Oral exam based on written preparation.

Translations are done based on previous preparation by the students.  The correction of the transliteration on the blackboard emphasises the structure and composition of  the phrases, as well as an analysis of the verbal forms that are encountered. A commentary on the historical or religious questions completes the grammatical analysis of the text.

The course aims to deepen and enlarge the knowledge and practice of the  language that was learnt in the first cycle. According to the year, the themes treated  will be studied in the light of the following texts:

1. literary text in middle Egyptian: The tale of Sinuhe (first half), the tale of the Eloquent Peasant, the teaching of Ptahhotep, etc.
2. the individual translation: the Tale of Sinuhe (2nd half), the teachings of Amenemhat, the biography of Ahmes son of Abama, etc.
3. epigraphic texts: royal or private stela, cave inscriptions, inscriptions on historic scenes (Old, Middle or New Kingdom)
4. text in neo-Egyptian: the hymn to the Aton, the bulletin of Kadesh, the tale of the Two Brothers, Papyrus Harris 1, etc.
5. reading of an extract of a text in hieratic writing: Sinuhe (papyrus R and B), pMillingen, pHarris 1, pRaifé

1. Grammar : Claude Obsomer, Égyptien hiéroglyphique, Grammaire pratique du moyen égyptien, Bruxelles, Safran, 2009.

2. Dictionnary : R.O. Faulkner, A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford, 1962.

3. Édition de textes :
- Bibliotheca Æegyptiaca, Bruxelles
- Kleine Ägyptische Texte, Wiesbaden
- K. Sethe, Historische-biographische Urkunden des Mittleren Reiches, Leipzig, 1935
- K. Sethe, Ägyptische Lesestücke. Texte des Mittleren Reiches, 2e éd., Leipzig, 1928
- K. Sethe, W. Helck, Urkunden der 18. Dynastie, Leipzig, 1927-1958
- K.A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions, Oxford, 1968-1990

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