Description
This concise dictionary of ‘Middle Egyptian’ – that phase of the Ancient Egyptian language which had the widest general application – incorporates 5400 carefully selected words perhaps to be encountered by students and scholars at some point of their regular work on Egyptian texts. Each and every entry gives the commonest hieroglyphic type of the word, accompanied by its transliteration, translation, references to texts where it occurs, its less usual hieroglyphic variants, and phrases during which it’s used. First published in 1962 and incorporating addenda from 1966, this Concise Dictionary has grow to be the usual work of reference and is now in its tenth printing.