Signs, Language, and Culture: The Semograms of the Pyramid Texts Between Iconicity and Referential Reality - Couverture rigide

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9789004721036: Signs, Language, and Culture: The Semograms of the Pyramid Texts Between Iconicity and Referential Reality
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ISBN 10 : 9004721037 ISBN 13 : 9789004721036
Editeur : Brill, 2025

Synopsis

The signs of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing are pictograms, i.e. images that represent beings and objects of reality. The main characteristic of pictograms is their iconicity. An icon conveys meaning through the image, which distinctly refers to a real referent by depicting several of its defining features. This volume focuses on semograms, which are lexical or semantic pictograms, meaning the image itself participates directly in the encoding of the linguistic message. The Pyramid Texts of the late 3rd millennium BCE constitute the oldest corpus of funerary texts in Egyptian and human history. Their semograms iconically reflect cultural realities of Old Kingdom Egypt and perhaps earlier. The studies you will find in this book are devoted to the dialectics between text, sign, iconicity, and referential reality.

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À propos de l'auteur

Josep Cervelló Autuori, PhD (1995) is Professor of Egyptology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and Director of the Institut d’Estudis del Pròxim Orient Antic (IEPOA) of the same university. He co-leads the Spanish-Egyptian Archaeological Mission in Saqqara (SEAMS). He has published monographs, book chapters, and articles mainly on the history, archaeology, and epigraphy of early and Old Kingdom Egypt.
Marc Orriols-Llonch, PhD 2010, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is an Egyptologist and an associate professor at that university. His main line of research is gender studies in Egyptology, specifically sexual relations and masculinities, topics on which he has published several articles and book chapters.

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Éditeur
Brill
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9004721037
ISBN 13 
9789004721036
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
760
Éditeur
Cervelló Autuori Josep, Orriols-Llonch Marc
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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