- Docente: Marco Zecchi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-OR/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Asian and African Languages and Cultures (cod. 0972)
Learning outcomes
- learning the glyphs - recognising the Egyptian 'alphabet',
biliteral/triliteral signs, ideograms and determinatives
- translating simple texts found on monuments and artifacts, this
gives the students the opportunity of putting what they are
learning into context
Course contents
1) Introduction to the hieroglyphic writing system and its
monumental context
2) Introduction to the epigraphic tools and methodology
3) Introduction to the Egyptian language and its grammar of the
Middle Egyptian
Part of the course focuses on some verbal forms and on the
translation and analysis of some epigraphic texts of the Middle
Kingdom.
Readings/Bibliography
J.P. Allen, Middle Egyptian. An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs, Cambridge University Press 2000
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Assessment methods
Oral exam, during which students will have the opportunity to demonstrate an understanding in Egyptian hieroglyphs, demonstrate an understanding in simple Egyptian grammar and demonstrate the ability to translate and analyse at least one of the epigraphic texts translated during the course.
Teaching tools
Photocopies with hieroglyphic inscriptions
Office hours
See the website of Marco Zecchi