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 This section is designed to direct you to resources where you can find vocabulary.
Middle Egyptian Dictionary
http://www.twonotes.us/hg/dictionary.pdf
Paul Dickson’s Middle Egyptian to English dictionary, which is organized graphically, in order of Gardiner’s sign classification. 300 page 19MB PDF download - and growing. Takes a while for the document to load, but well worth the wait. Here’s what Paul Dickson writes about the dictionary:
“As I began trying to learn to read the hieroglyphic writing of Middle Egyptian I was frustrated that all of the available dictionaries were organized around the approximate sounds of the words instead of their spelling, as is used in most other dictionaries.
When I learned that all of the raw material was available for making my own dictionary, organized the way I wanted, I set out on this project.
The definitions are organized in order by the Gardiner Codes of the glyphs that make them up. This system, developed by Alan Gardiner in the early part of the 20th century, groups the symbols into families according to what they look like.
A good way to use this dictionary is not to print it on paper but to leave it in your computer as a PDF file so that you have the full use of the SEARCH facilities of your PDF reader. With that you can look for words in the English definitions, or in the phonetic pronunciation guides. For the latter it helps to check the box for case-sensitive searching, since case is important in the MdC notation.”
Names of the Pharaohs
http://www.touregypt.net/kings.html
Both of the above sites feature the cartouches of the Pharaohs. The top URL shows only the name in the cartouche and the English language equivalent. The Tour Egypt site additionally provides a short history of each of the Pharaohs.
Kingship and Kinglists
http://www.egyptology.nl/kinglist.html
Three PDF files available for download, by Sjef Willockx/
- An ancient Egyptian kinglist of the 1st till 6th dynasty (8 centuries and 44 kings, in 14 pages, 303 kB)
- A concise kinglist of the 1st till 6th dynasty: just the names and the numbers (154 kB)
- The cartouche names of the New Kingdom. With a complete kinglist of the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasty. (906 kB)
Place Names (Nomes)
http://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/nomes.htm
A list of the nomes of Upper and Lower Egypt shown in hieroglyphic form with its English meaning and the chief cult centres for each nome. Nomes are listed by number.
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