Ancient Egypt Language and Writing

Cursive hieroglyphs: a section of the Book of the Dead on the Papyrus of Ani, 19 th Dynasty (British Museum) Coptic alphabet Hieroglyphs, demotic, and Greek: the Rosetta Stone, 196 BCE (British Museum)

The Narmer Palette, 64 x 42 cm, from Hierokonpolis (Egyptian Museum) Hatshepsut’s cartouche The Rosetta Stone, detail with Ptolemy V’s cartouche

The Rosetta Stone and the Philae obelisk, BCE (Kingston Lacy, Dorset, England) with cartouches of Ptolemy and Cleopatra Champollion's table of hieroglyphic phonetic characters with their demotic and Coptic equivalents (1822)

Lintel of the God’s Wife Amenardis, 740—656 BCE (Karnak, Temple of Amun) Scribal equipment New Kingdom seal ring: "The King's scribe, overseer of the harem, Ahmose" (Louvre)

Relief from Queen Tiye’s temple at Sedeinga, Sudan: the hieroglyph of Amun (top left) and the god's face were hacked out on orders of Akhenaten ( ) and were later restored Anubis and Hathor welcome Tutankhamun (18 th Dyn); fresco, south wall of the burial chamber, Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62)

Hieratic script: school copy of a letter to Vizier Khay (Royal Ontario Museum) Demotic script on the Rosetta Stone

Cursive hieroglyphs: a section of the Book of the Dead on the Papyrus of Ani, 19 th Dynasty (British Museum) Coptic alphabet Hieroglyphs: the Rosetta Stone, 196 BCE (British Museum)

Logograms Phonograms Determinatives uniconsonantal

The Narmer Palette, 64 x 42 cm, from Hierokonpolis (Egyptian Museum) Several inscribed bone tags from tomb U-j (Scorpion’s?) at Umm el-Qa’ab.

Palaeolithic700, BCE Saharan Neolithic Early Middle Late Predynastic Lower Egypt Neolithic Maadi Upper Egypt Badarian Naqada I (Amratian) Naqada II (Gerzean) Naqada III (Dynasty 0) 1 ST Persian Period (27 th -30 th ) d Persian Period Ptolemaic Period Macedonian Ptolemaic Roman30 BCE-642 CE