Talking Pyramids

I have updated the Pyramid Texts Online Tools page with the addition of a useful Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. This dictionary was created by Paul Dickson as a result of his frustration with the existing dictionaries and their arrangement around the approximate sounds of the words instead of their spelling, as dictionaries are usually organised.

Faulkner's and Dickson's Dictionaries compared

Unlike Faulkner’s dictionary, which gives the word hand-written in hieroglyphs, followed by the transliteration, and then the translation, in Dickson’s version the hieroglyphs are translated straight into Manual de Codage system, followed by the English translation, followed by the Gardiner codes. I personally find Paul Dickson’s Dictionary much easier to use for these reasons but also because it is organised based on the familiar Gardiner order of grouping signs, making it fast and easy to look up a word.

If you do download the dictionary be aware that it is 18.4 mb in size and is in PDF format.

Related posts:

1. Vygus Ancient Egyptian Dictionary Updated Mark Vygus has updated his excellent dictionary. The dictionary, which...
2. The GlyphStudy Open-Source Projects Group Today it is with great excitement that I announce the...
3. A New Social Hieroglyphic Dictionary Wiki A message from Saint Simian: Hello to all Egyptologists with...
4. Hieroglyphic Dictionary for the iPhone This probably seems a bit like a commercial for the...
5. Learning Middle Egyptian with GlyphStudy GlyphStudy Yahoo Group The Yahoo group GlyphStudy is running three...

Tags: language

This entry was posted on Friday, February 8th, 2008 at 5:13 am and is filed under Books, Site Updates. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.