Signs of Life

Ancient Egyptian Script, Language, and Writing: Studies in Honour of Orly Goldwasser

Edited by Niv Allon

Book cover: Signs of Life

Extent: 252, 252 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Ancient Egypt, Language & Linguistics

Series: Monographies Reine Elisabeth

Series volume number: 17

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(November 2024)

ISBN: 9782503608631

Price: $175.00

In stock

Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs and other writing systems, their semiotic value, and the language they record in a unique volume of collected papers.


In recent decades, the Ancient Egyptian realm of pictorial script and meta-textuality has been the focus of many research projects. Foremost among them is the innovative and ground-breaking sub-field that was helmed by Prof. Orly Goldwasser, exploring the study of classifiers and the ways in which Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs mirror the Ancient Egyptian mind. Taking Goldwasser’s pioneering work as its inspiration, this volume draws together contributions from some of the leading voices in Egyptology and neighbouring fields to illuminate different aspects of the use of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, their semiotic value, and of the language that they record, as well as looking more broadly at the use of signs, pictorial systems, script, learning processes, and classifications. Together, these chapters offer a unique and multi-layered picture of the ways in which Ancient Egyptian language and Hieroglyphs emerged within Ancient Egyptian culture, and the means by which they interacted with other script systems and languages.

  • Edited by Niv Allon