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Signs, Language, and Culture: The Semograms of the Pyramid Texts between Iconicity and Referential Reality
Series: - Harvard Egyptological Studies, Volume: 26
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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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.
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.
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Josep Cervelló Autuori and Marc Orriols-Llonch
1 The Bird Semograms of the God Dedun in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts
Heri AbruñaMartí
2 Round, Square or Both? The Skyscape in the Pyramid Texts as Expressed by Semograms
M.Victoria Almansa-Villatoro
3 The Offering of the Eye of Horus in the Pyramid Texts: Performativity and Symbolic Credit
Lucas Baqué-Manzano
4 Les lits déterminatifs de sḏr, « se coucher », dans les textes de la pyramide de Téti: Les critères stylistiques comme indices de datation
Élise Bène
5 The Falcon Classifiers in the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom
FranciscoL. BorregoGallardo
6 Some Remarks on Kinship Determinatives in the Pyramid Texts
Marcelo Campagno
7 La graphie de l’ȝḫ.t dans les Textes des Pyramides et les Textes des Sarcophages
Cloé Caron et Valérie Angenot
8 The Root jꜤr and Its Determinatives in the Royal and Private Funerary Texts of the Old Kingdom
Reflections on the Afterlife in Egypt at the End of the Third Millennium
Josep CervellóAutuori
9 Deserts and Mountains on the Walls: Hieroglyphs Related to Desert Areas and Foreign Countries in the Pyramid Texts
AndrésDiego Espinel
10 Modulating Semograms: Some Procedures for Semantic Specification and Re-categorization in the Pyramid Texts and Other Mortuary Texts
Carlos GraciaZamacona
11 Quelle continuité graphique entre l’iconographie prédynastique et les Textes des Pyramides?
Ou, comment établit-on des catégories dans le réel entre le IVe et le IIIe millénaire?
Gwenola Graff
12 Le « sceptre » hétès dans les Textes des Pyramides
Nadine Guilhou†
13 Sit on Osiris’s Chair: Uses, Meanings and Graphic Forms of ḥmsi҆ in the Pyramid Texts
Francesca Iannarilli
14 Nédi, “nouveau” dieu de l’Égypte protodynastique, et la normalisation des effigies cultuelles
Codification graphique, référent plastique et fonction idéologique
Bernard Mathieu
15 Panther, Panther, Burning (Not so) Bright… The Impact of Iconicity on Sign Identity, Evolution and Obsolescence in the Pyramid Texts
Angela McDonald
16 External Male Genitalia Semograms 𓂸 [D52], 𓂺 [D53] in the Pyramid Texts
Marc Orriols-Llonch
17 De signes en aiguilles: À propos de quelques signes de vêtements et de parures dans les Textes des Pyramides
Jennifer Romion
18 Quand l’homme descend du bœuf: De l’utilisation des parties bovines pour désigner le corps humain dans les Textes des Pyramides
Simon Thuault
Table of Signs Discussed
Table of Passages Discussed
General Index
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Josep Cervelló Autuori and Marc Orriols-Llonch
1 The Bird Semograms of the God Dedun in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts
Heri AbruñaMartí
2 Round, Square or Both? The Skyscape in the Pyramid Texts as Expressed by Semograms
M.Victoria Almansa-Villatoro
3 The Offering of the Eye of Horus in the Pyramid Texts: Performativity and Symbolic Credit
Lucas Baqué-Manzano
4 Les lits déterminatifs de sḏr, « se coucher », dans les textes de la pyramide de Téti: Les critères stylistiques comme indices de datation
Élise Bène
5 The Falcon Classifiers in the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom
FranciscoL. BorregoGallardo
6 Some Remarks on Kinship Determinatives in the Pyramid Texts
Marcelo Campagno
7 La graphie de l’ȝḫ.t dans les Textes des Pyramides et les Textes des Sarcophages
Cloé Caron et Valérie Angenot
8 The Root jꜤr and Its Determinatives in the Royal and Private Funerary Texts of the Old Kingdom
Reflections on the Afterlife in Egypt at the End of the Third Millennium
Josep CervellóAutuori
9 Deserts and Mountains on the Walls: Hieroglyphs Related to Desert Areas and Foreign Countries in the Pyramid Texts
AndrésDiego Espinel
10 Modulating Semograms: Some Procedures for Semantic Specification and Re-categorization in the Pyramid Texts and Other Mortuary Texts
Carlos GraciaZamacona
11 Quelle continuité graphique entre l’iconographie prédynastique et les Textes des Pyramides?
Ou, comment établit-on des catégories dans le réel entre le IVe et le IIIe millénaire?
Gwenola Graff
12 Le « sceptre » hétès dans les Textes des Pyramides
Nadine Guilhou†
13 Sit on Osiris’s Chair: Uses, Meanings and Graphic Forms of ḥmsi҆ in the Pyramid Texts
Francesca Iannarilli
14 Nédi, “nouveau” dieu de l’Égypte protodynastique, et la normalisation des effigies cultuelles
Codification graphique, référent plastique et fonction idéologique
Bernard Mathieu
15 Panther, Panther, Burning (Not so) Bright… The Impact of Iconicity on Sign Identity, Evolution and Obsolescence in the Pyramid Texts
Angela McDonald
16 External Male Genitalia Semograms 𓂸 [D52], 𓂺 [D53] in the Pyramid Texts
Marc Orriols-Llonch
17 De signes en aiguilles: À propos de quelques signes de vêtements et de parures dans les Textes des Pyramides
Jennifer Romion
18 Quand l’homme descend du bœuf: De l’utilisation des parties bovines pour désigner le corps humain dans les Textes des Pyramides
Simon Thuault
Table of Signs Discussed
Table of Passages Discussed
General Index
This work is primarily intended for a specialist audience in the field of Egyptology, but will also be of interest to those working in other fields, such as script theory, linguistics, and visual, religious, or cultural studies.