Hieroglyphic Vocabulary to the Book of the Dead

By E.A. Wallis Budge

Indispensable reference by noted Egyptologist contains every word of ancient Egyptian text, vital repository of Egyptian religious doctrine, grouped according to hieroglyphic symbols in the standard scholarly system of Roman alphabetization. A phonetic version and definition are provided for each word, along with a helpful Index to English equivalents of Egyptian words in the text. Second, revised edition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Apr 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9780486144924

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A HIEROGLYPHIC VOCABULARY

TO THE

BOOK OF THE DEAD

E. A. WALLIS BUDGE

DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC., New York

This Dover edition, first published in 1991, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published in 1911 by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., London, under the title A Hieroglyphic Vocabularly to the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead with an Index to All the English Equivalents of the Egyptian Words (Vol. XXXI in the series Books on Egypt and Chaldça). The Kegan Paul edition was itself the revised and expanded second edition of a work that had first appeared in 1897. A number of obvious typographical errors have been tacitly corrected.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857–1934.

[Hieroglyphic vocabulary to the Theban recension of the Book of the dead with an index to all the English equivalents of the Egyptian words]

A hieroglyphic vocabulary to the Book of the dead / E. A. Wallis Budge.

     p. cm.

Reprint. Originally published: A hieroglyphic vocabulary to the Theban recension of the Book of the dead with an index to all the English equivalents of the Egyptian words. New ed., rev. and enl. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1911.

Includes index.

eISBN 13: 978-0-4861-44924

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CONTENTS

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

VOCABULARY

A.

A.

Ā.

U.

I.

B.

P.

F.

M.

N.

R or L.

H.

H.

KH.

S.

SH.

K.

Q.

K.

T.

T.

TCH.

WORDS AND SIGNS OF UNCERTAIN READING

ENGLISH INDEX

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

THE following pages contain a Hieroglyphic Vocabulary to all the texts of the Chapters of the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead which is printed in this Series (Vols. XXVIII–XXX),* and also to most of the supplementary Chapters of the Saïte and Graeco-Roman period which are appended thereto. The whole work has been comprehensively revised, and in the case of characters to which the values given in 1897, when the first edition was compiled, are now obsolete, special care has been taken to place them in the order in which they have since been proved to belong. The arrangement of the words and their various forms is usually alphabetical, and it is hoped that the few exceptions to this rule will cause the reader no difficulty. A very considerable number of words and forms have been added to this edition, and it was necessary, for reasons of space, to omit all references.

A new feature of this edition of the Vocabulary is the Index to all the English equivalents of Egyptian words printed herein. This was prepared in answer to the requests of many who had used the first edition of the Vocabulary.

For the care which Mr. Adolf Holzhausen has given to the printing of this work my sincere thanks are due.

E. A. WALLIS BUDGE

BRITISH MUSEUM,

February 4th, 1911.

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*Dover’s edition of The Egyptian Book of the Dead is 0-486-21866-X.

VOCABULARY.

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