Discoveries in Hieroglyphical Literature

About this eBook

Author

Young, Thomas, 1773-1829

Title

An account of some recent discoveries in hieroglyphical literature, and Egyptian antiquities : including the author's original alphabet, as extended by Mr. Champollion, with a translation of five unpublished Greek and Egyptian manuscripts

Original Publication

UK: John Murray, 1823.

Credits

The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PJ: Language and Literatures: Oriental languages and literatures

Subject

Egyptian language -- Writing, Hieroglyphic

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 74347

Release Date

September 1, 2024

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DISCOVERIES IN HIEROGLYPHICAL LITERATURE.
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.Untitled
4. 4.Untitled
5. 5.Untitled
6. 6.CONTENTS.
7. 7.PREFACE.
8. 8.WORKS OF THE AUTHOR;
9. 9.DISCOVERIES IN HIEROGLYPHICAL LITERATURE.
10. 10.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY SKETCH OF THE PREVALENT OPINIONS RESPECTING HIEROGLYPHICS.
11. 11.CHAPTER II. INVESTIGATIONS FOUNDED ON THE PILLAR OF ROSETTA.
12. 12.CHAPTER III. ADDITIONAL INFERENCES, DEDUCED FROM THE EGYPTIAN MANUSCRIPTS, AND FROM OTHER MONUMENTS.
13. 13.CHAPTER IV COLLECTIONS OF THE FRENCH. MR. DROVETTI. MR. CHAMPOLLION’S DISCOVERIES.
14. 14.CHAPTER V. ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE MANUSCRIPTS BROUGHT FROM EGYPT BY MR. GREY. — TRANSLATION OF THE GREEK PAPYRUS OF ANASTASY. — TRANSLATION OF MR. GREY’S GREEK ANTIGRAPH. — TRANSLATION OF THE ENCHORIAL PAPYRUS OF PARIS, CONTAINING THE ORIGINAL DEED RELATING TO THE MUMMIES. — TRANSLATION OF MR. GREY’S ENCHORIAL PAPYRUS. REGISTRY IN GREEK (A). — ENCHORIAL AGREEMENT (A). — TRANSLATION OF THE SECOND DEED (B). REGISTRY, IN GREEK. — ENCHORIAL AGREEMENT (B). — TRANSLATION OF THE THIRD DEED (C). Registry in Greek. — ENCHORIAL AGREEMENT (C).
15. 15.CHAPTER VI. EXTRACTS FROM DIODORUS AND HERODOTUS; RELATING TO MUMMIES.
16. 16.CHAPTER VII. EXTRACTS FROM STRABO; ALPHABET OF CHAMPOLLION; HIEROGLYPHICAL AND ENCHORIAL NAMES.
17. 17.Untitled
18. 18.HIEROGLYPHICAL NAMES.
19. 19.ENCHORIAL PROPER NAMES.
20. 20.CHAPTER VIII. CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE PTOLEMIES, EXTRACTED FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS.
21. 21.APPENDIX I. — I. GREEK PAPYRUS OF MR. GREY. — II. PAPYRUS OF ANASTASY AND BÖCKH. — III. VARIOUS REGISTRIES COMPARED.
22. 22.APPENDIX II. — SPECIMENS OF HIEROGLYPHICS: — Transcriber’s Notes

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