Название: The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography
Автор: Vanessa Davies, Dimitri Laboury
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190604654
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 712
Размер: 13,0 МБ
Язык: Английский
The unique relationship between word and image in ancient Egypt is a defining feature of that ancient culture's records. All hieroglyphic texts are composed of images, and large-scale figural imagery in temples and tombs is often accompanied by texts. Epigraphy and palaeography are two distinct, but closely related, ways of recording, analyzing, and interpreting texts and images.