Cracking codes : the Rosetta stone and decipherment /
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| Author / Creator: | Parkinson, R. B. |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999. |
| Description: | 208 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3983900 |
Table of Contents:
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Deciphering the Rosetta Stone
- Scripts
- 'Among the Ruined Languages'
- Revealing the Rosetta Stone: Discovery, Publication and Display
- The Original Context of the Rosetta Stone
- The Decipherment of the Rosetta Stone
- The Rosetta Stone after Champollion
- 2. Reading a Text: The Egyptian Scripts of the Rosetta Stone
- The Egyptian language
- The Classical Egyptian Writing System
- The Shapes of Signs
- The Uses of Signs
- Two Words More
- 3. Towards Reading a Cultural Code: The Uses of Writing in Ancient Egypt
- Evolving Egyptian Scripts
- The Birth of Writing
- The Ideal Script
- Syllabic Orthography
- Figurative Hieroglyphs, or 'Cryptography'
- Cursive Hieroglphs and Hieratic
- Abbreviations, Ownership-marks and 'Funny Signs'
- Demotic
- Coptic
- Writing and Art: Cultural Icons
- Decorative Hieroglyphs
- Monumental Art: Cultural Display
- The Powers of Writing
- Literacy and the Social Power of Writing
- The Gods and Saints of Writing
- God's Words
- Mutilated Hieroglyphs and 'Damnatio Memoriae'
- The Practice of Writing
- Scribes' Equipment
- Scribal Education and Errors
- Individual Scribes at Deir el-Medina
- What Could Be Written: Types of Text
- Unwritten Aspects of Reading a Culture
- 4. The Future: Further Codes to Crack
- The Death and Spread of the Egyptian Scripts
- Other Deciphered and Undeciphered Scripts and Languages
- Decipherment versus Cryptanalysis
- Reading Ancient Writing: Towards a Dialogue
- Appendix. The Demotic Text of the Memphis Decree on the Rosetta Stone
- Glossary
- Select Bibliography
- Concordance of British Museum EA Inventory Numbers
- Chronology
- Index
