egyptian hieroglyphics & the rosetta stone. decipher the following messages: 10x 10q 1ce 2mi ftw...
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Egyptian Hieroglyphics & the Rosetta Stone
Decipher the following messages:
• 10X• 10Q• 1CE• 2MI• FTW• G2G• SMH
• =P• >:( • ;-)• :-/• :-D
Discussion Questions.
• Where might you see the types of messages?
• What makes this type of communication different from the normal written word?
• Why do people use this form of communication rather than writing complete words and sentences?
• What are the advantages/disadvantages of using this type of communication?
Hieroglyphs • Hieroglyphs is made
from two Greek words: – hieros meaning holy – glyphe meaning writing – So hieroglyph means...?
Hieroglyphs• Uses many symbols to represent
entire words; also has symbols for single letters. – These roughly correspond to the 26
letters of the English alphabet. • The signs we give for the letters 'a',
'l', 'o', 'v', 'x' and 'c' are the closest we can come to the ancient sounds. – Ancient Egyptian has four different 'h'
sound, for example, making it difficult to make direct translations.
Hieroglyphics
• The ancient Egyptians did not use vowels when they recorded information in writing. Thus, two words with the same consonants but different meanings could be spelled the same way.
• These signs written together could mean either' boat' or 'taste’:
Sense Signs
• By adding the 'sense sign’ to the end of the word means 'boat'.
• However, by adding the 'sense sign' (an ox tongue) at the end of the word means 'taste'.
Reading Egyptian Hieroglyphics
• To know which way to read, you must determine which way the people or animals are facing. – For example, if an animal hieroglyph faces right,
you read from right to left. If it faces left, you read from left to right.
– And just to confuse you, sometimes they read Hieroglyphs from top to bottom.
Papyrus
• Hieroglyphs were written on papyrus reed, which is a water or marsh plant, with tall straight hollow stems. – The reeds were flattened, dried, and stuck
together to make pages. • The Egyptians also carved hieroglyphs onto
stone and painted them on the walls of the tombs.
Papyrus
• #1: First, they would pick a plant and cut the outer green part.
• #2: Next, they took the inner part of the papyrus and cut it into even pieces.
• #3: Then, they would take a board and stack the even slices on the board.
• #4: Last, they would take a stone and rub the slices until they were soft and felt like our paper.
The Rosetta Stone
• Contains three types of text:1. Hieroglyphics: Used for
important and religious documents
2. Egyptian writing (demotic): Used by most people in Egypt at that time.
3. Greek writing: Used by the rulers
Egyptian Hieroglyphic Alphabet
Cartouche
• In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an ellipse with a horizontal line at one end, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name
Cartouche
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