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This volume explores ancient Egyptian writing systems - one of the richest and most enduring image-writing systems in history - from the perspective of its visual aesthetics, rather than from a linguistic or philological perspective.
Marking two hundred years since the decipherment of hieroglyphics, it stands as a unique work celebrating this milestone through a renewed focus on the visual dimensions of ancient Egyptian writing. Traditional scholarly approaches in Egyptology often prioritise the linguistic and philological analysis of ancient Egyptian writings over their visual aspects. This volume ushers in a new wave of scholarship focused on rediscovering the visual aesthetics of ancient Egyptian writing, with examples drawn from across the ancient history of Egypt highlighting the visual, artistic, and stylistic elements employed in the creation and presentation of hieroglyphs and their cursive forms such as the hieratic script. These visual aspects encompass diverse essential elements contributing to the overall beauty, harmony, and expressive qualities of written texts in ancient Egypt.
Visual Aesthetics of Ancient Egyptian Writing is suitable for students and scholars of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Egyptian art and visual culture, and ancient writing systems more broadly. It is also of interest to those working on comparative aesthetics, and comparative poetics, as well as to those working in comparative philosophy, and textual hermeneutics.
Contents
1. Introduction: Rethinking the visual culture of ancient Egyptian scripts - Stephen Quirke, Hany Rashwan and Rita Lucarelli; 2. Preface: iconicity in ancient Egyptian Writing - Antonio Loprieno; 3. Wonderful signs: aspects of visuality of ancient Egyptian (hand)writing - Ursula Verhoeven; 4. "The signs revealed their forms. He called to them and they answered to him", The anthropomorphized hieroglyphs as (inter)active image-text compositions in Ancient Egypt - Ghada Mohamed; 5. Writing and creation: hieroglyphs in Egyptian discourse - Katherine Davis; 6. Visual Poetics in ancient Egyptian and Chinese writings: a comparative study - Tian Tian; 7. Writing ms in the Religious Hymns of the New Kingdom (c. 1539-1077 BCE) - between visual aspects and semantic implications (or: The Importance of Being B3) - Guilherme Borges Pires; 8. Determinatives of the verb Hmsi 'to sit' in context, or can sitting be kneeling? - Edyta Kopp; 9. The visuality of cursive storywriting in ancient Egypt - Nikolaos Lazaridis and Tara Prakash; 10. Calling out the name: embodiment in ancient Egyptian personal names from the late Old Kingdom - Julia Clare Francis Hamilton; 11. Curse like an Egyptian: scribal choice of štm and šnꜥ determinatives - Ahmed Osman; 12. Hidden images of ritual power: a new look at Crypt South 3 in the temple of Hathor at Dendera - Barbara A. Richter; 13. The names of Menhyt and Nebtu in the litanies of Esna; or, the use of figurative writing in the definition of one goddess - Federica Pancin; 14. The (Other) World in words: determinatives as 'telltale' icons encoding the Egyptian Duat - Silvia Zago; 15. Crucible shape in Old Kingdom metalworking scenes: from visual to technical interpretations - Ahmed Mansour; 16. Graphic worlds in the Book of Two Ways - Jordan Miller; 17. Dances with kings: movement and dance-related lexemes in the Pyramid Texts - Angelo Colonna and Francesca Iannarilli; 18. 'To make them see Your Majesty': the visual program of the 'Poetical Stela' of Thutmosis III - Scott B. Noegel; 19. How to think in hieroglyphs? Logical strategies of aesthetic representation in the Egyptian hieroglyphic script - Amr El Hawary; 20. Hieroglyph perception through embodied cognition and pictorial realism: toward an ontology of active imagination in ancient Egypt - Andrea Pasqui, Todd Shimoda and Stefano Natrella.
