Ancient Egyptian Names for Dogs

Ancient Egyptian Names for Dogs

Author: Kay Durr

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780931866913

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-- Word definitions -- Interesting facts -- Dog breeds of Egyptian heritage This interesting and useful reference will help you find unusual names and words used by ancient Egyptians. Durr researched this for use with her top-winning Pharaoh Hounds.


The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming

The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming

Author: Carole Hough

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-04-28

Total Pages: 801

ISBN-13: 0191630411

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In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. Since Ancient Greece, names have been regarded as central to the study of language, and this has continued to be a major theme of both philosophical and linguistic enquiry throughout the history of Western thought. The investigation of name origins is more recent, as is the study of names in literature. Relatively new is the study of names in society, which draws on techniques from sociolinguistics and has gradually been gathering momentum over the last few decades. The structure of this volume reflects the emergence of the main branches of name studies, in roughly chronological order. The first Part focuses on name theory and outlines key issues about the role of names in language, focusing on grammar, meaning, and discourse. Parts II and III deal with the study of place-names and personal names respectively, while Part IV outlines contrasting approaches to the study of names in literature, with case studies from different languages and time periods. Part V explores the field of socio-onomastics, with chapters relating to the names of people, places, and commercial products. Part VI then examines the interdisciplinary nature of name studies, before the concluding Part presents a selection of animate and inanimate referents ranging from aircraft to animals, and explains the naming strategies adopted for them.


Origins In Search of Ancient Dog Breeds

Origins In Search of Ancient Dog Breeds

Author: Padrone Giovanni

Publisher: Giovanni Padrone

Published: 2021-05-12

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13:

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At the end of the last glacial period, about 15.000 years ago, in the territories now occupied by Bonn, in Northern Germany, a group of humans began to select puppies from a family of dogs. Probably this cubs have a certain docility and attractiveness toward their human companions, but the reason why our ancestors started this selective process remain unknown. However, humans have since deep manipulated dog genetics. The first part of ORIGINS is a journey into the most distant period in which the most ancient dog breeds were born.


Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy

Ancient Egyptian Calligraphy

Author: Henry George Fischer

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 0870995286

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"The aim of this book is twofold: first, to provide beginning students with step-by-step guidance in drawing hieroglyphs; and secondly, to supplement the observations of Gardiner in the Sign List at the back of his Egyptian Grammar. The examples include all 24 of the common forms of "alphabetic" (monoconsonantal) signs, and a selection of other signs that are either difficult to draw or that call for additional comment - a total of about 200 in all. Comparative material, emphasizing Old Kingdom models, is presented in 175 line drawings. By familiarizing themselves with this material, along with the points made in the Introduction, students will, at the same time, learn a good deal about hieroglyphic palaeography"--Publisher's description.


Egypt at Its Origins

Egypt at Its Origins

Author: Stan Hendrickx

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 1196

ISBN-13: 9789042914698

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Studies in Memory of Barbara Adams Proceedings of the International Conference 'Origins of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt', Krakow, 28th August--1st September 2002.


The Culture of Animals in Antiquity

The Culture of Animals in Antiquity

Author: Sian Lewis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 771

ISBN-13: 1351782495

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The Culture of Animals in Antiquity provides students and researchers with well-chosen and clearly presented ancient sources in translation, some well-known, others undoubtedly unfamiliar, but all central to a key area of study in ancient history: the part played by animals in the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. It brings new ideas to bear on the wealth of evidence – literary, historical and archaeological – which we possess for the experiences and roles of animals in the ancient world. Offering a broad picture of ancient cultures in the Mediterranean as part of a wider ecosystem, the volume is on an ambitious scale. It covers a broad span of time, from the sacred animals of dynastic Egypt to the imagery of the lamb in early Christianity, and of region, from the fallow deer introduced and bred in Roman Britain to the Asiatic lioness and her cubs brought as a gift by the Elamites to the Great King of Persia. This sourcebook is essential for anyone wishing to understand the role of animals in the ancient world and support learning for one of the fastest growing disciplines in Classics.


The Animal in Ottoman Egypt

The Animal in Ottoman Egypt

Author: Alan Mikhail

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0199315272

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Animals in rural Egypt became enmeshed in social relationships and made possible many tasks otherwise impossible. Rather than focus on what animals represented or symbolized, Mikhail discusses their social and economic functions, as Ottoman Egypt cannot be understood without acknowledging animals as central shapers of the early modern world.


Prophets, Lovers and Giraffes

Prophets, Lovers and Giraffes

Author: Orly Goldwasser

Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9783447045902

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The book's central proposition is that the prominent feature of the hiero-glyphic script which Egyptologists call "determinatives" makes up an elabo-rate system of classifiers. All items of the lexicon take motivated pictorial classifiers. By this device, the script reflects the map of knowledgeorganization of ancient Egyptian culture. The book aims to reveal the principles and constraints governing the codification of the ancient Egyptian universe in this system. There is, to date, no comprehensive study, either in Egyptology or in cognitive linguistics, of the hieroglyphic classifiers as a structured system. The present work attempts to fill the existing hiatus by bridging the disciplines of Egyptology and cognitive studies, using the tools of the latter to elucidate the former and thus perhaps arrive at new perspectives on both. From the Egyptological angle, the book deals with the ancient Egyptians' nomenclature for "items in the world" and the relationship between lexicon and the knowledge organization. However, the events occurring in the picture-script render cognitive processes visible to our inspection hundreds of years before they have ripened into the Egyptian language. This "visibility" bears directly on a number of crucial questions in cognitive linguistics and ethnobiology. The book also includes an introduction to the hieroglyphic script.


Houses in Graeco-Roman Egypt

Houses in Graeco-Roman Egypt

Author: Youssri Ezzat Hussein Abdelwahed

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2016-10-24

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 178491438X

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This book examines different forms of ritual activities performed in houses of Graeco- Roman Egypt. It draws on the rich archaeological record of rural housing and evidence from literature or papyrological references to both urban and rural housing.