Learn how to read Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs with Ilona Regulski | Curator's Corner S7 E11

the context. In this case it is a noun and means "Lord." And it is followed by two horizontal flat signs that represent the lands, it is a sign of land. And the

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Egyptians not only had singular and plural, but they also had something in between that we call "dual." I don't think we have this in English? A duel is two of something, and you can write this by having the noun followed by two diagonal strokes or you can just repeat the sign twice, and this is what happens here. Then you have 'The Lord of the Two Lands'.

The neb returns below the two lands. So, you see, "The Lord of the Two Lands" is followed again by "Lord, who does... something?" The next eye is a very crucial verb, the verb 'to do,  to create, to make' and then the lintel breaks, unfortunately, so we don't know what comes next. But from parallel texts, from other texts and similar contexts we know that it was probably about “the Lord making offerings.” So the word offerings may have disappeared here. So Eerie is the word that is the verb "to do" and is written with the eye sign and again you would have other

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below to indicate the tense of the verb that have unfortunately disappeared here.

So the

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name of the city where it was probably settled is Shedet. And Shedet appears twice in this inscription and to make it easier for you it is written twice differently, because the Egyptians like to do that! It is written in the column to the left and right of the cartouche where the falcon that is Horus is seen; he is simply the main god of Egypt. In fact, he is the god of royalty. Inside the rectangle you see some

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and one of them is the face: the face hieroglyph followed by the heart. And the combination of face and heart is again a preposition and means "who is inside." So face is a preposition that has many different meanings.

It can mean because, it can mean about, but along with the heart it means "who is inside" because the heart is inside, so you are really inside something. And the construction that follows with the face of a bucranium (or something like that) in front of you, which is quite unusual in Egyptian writing. It is a reference to a shrine that was probably installed in Shedet and is a reference for the city of Shedet. Then we have 'Horus ḥr.j-ib' Horatio who is in Shedet. Shedet appears again in the other column where the crocodile is seen lying in the shrine and is followed by some sort of strange looking horizontal sign which is a water bag, basically a bag to carry water.

And it's "shed" and it's followed again by a "t." And what does 't' mean? Which is feminine, right? Yes very good! I

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ed something! Yes, and Shedet is a feminine word because in fact, as in many languages, the names of places such as towns or cities are feminine. That is why many geographical references are feminine. In this case the same sanctuary is seen again with the bull heads on top, but here it appears twice. Why does it appear twice? Because this   is a bit complicated. It is "Shedety" - "he who belongs to Shedet." And here we return to his "hieroglyphs", which is;

Shedet is the noun and they want to turn it into an adjective. They don't mean Shedet, they mean "he who is from Shedet" or "he who is from Shedet." And they do it by adding a 'y' to the noun, and in this case again the 'y' can be written with two diagonal strokes. But because they want to make it more visually appealing, they simply repeat the shrine twice. Oh, that's so good! So doubling the determiner in a way is classifying the noun, but putting it twice actually turns it into an adjective. So I did, and I'm going to be pretty blunt here, I was thinking I was going to get a gold star at some point for pointing out the relatively obvious, which was that: This is just an expanded version of this. stuff.

So I thought it had purely to do with the composition. I was thinking that it wouldn't fit so easily and so clearly because everything with the "t" in it, fits together so well. They clearly thought about it, but it's cool that they can duplicate it and that's grammar. It is an adjective Nisbe   if you want to know the exact term assigned to it. I mean, yeah, the public definitely asked for more hieroglyphics, so we want to know. So what they are saying here is that the crocodile Sobek is the one from Shedet. So Sobek is the patron god of Shedet.

That's really cool and leaves us with the long, skinny part that looks a bit like a fancy candle. I imagine there are three sets of things? Yes, here we have a beautiful verb again. The column begins with the verb, it is the verb... If you don't know, Ilona really likes verbs. She I like verbs. She sent me a great email about verbs; not a cheat sheet for this, but something completely different. I love verbs, so there's a big smile here. But anyway the verbal system is quite complicated in ancient Egyptian. So here is the verb 'give' and what is the king...what you are giving or what you have been given is 'life and prosperity/stability' which is the second sign is the ankh sign that many people can known as Sign of life.

And DJt follows. So, the reed column and the djt pillar are a bundle of stems joined together and it means "stability". So the verb form, because this is an emblematic inscription that is meant to show, doesn't actually tell us how to

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the verb, but usually in a construction like this it is "give life and stability" or "to whom it is given ". - which is a passive participle - 'to whom life and stability are given'. Awesome. And I'm sorry to clarify because I think he may have heard wrong. So ankh I understand. I have seen it before.

Know what it is. The symbol below...   Did I hear a lot of socks? Can't I be right? No, because it's the only thing I don't really recognize in all of this, which in itself I find really fascinating. Okay, maybe not the roasted platypus, but like everything else, I can get it except yes, this. Is this like an Egyptian tool or something...? No, it's a bunch of stems. Like a kind of vegetation that is like something you put together to build, to make something more stable. This probably refers to the Egyptians, how they built with organic material and put these stems together to build houses or a wall or a fence or something like that.

Going back to looking at it more and more like a couple of things that you've pointed out, I probably would have said that, to be honest, the bee was a grasshopper, but I knew it was an insect. The basket would have said it was a bowl. The baskets, yes, we have to remember that once this inscription was probably colored, it was decorated in a way that would have been more recognizable. So the basket could have this. Of course we don't know for sure, but it could have had some kind of decoration that would tell you that it is a basket, it is possible.

So that would have made things easier for you. Because it just looks finished, because it's so impressive, that you forget that those things would have been painted and not only would they have been painted, but there would probably be texture that you could add. Yes, the painting was not only for decorative purposes, but also provided additional information about the characters. From that, do we have a lot of symbols where we say "okay." So we know how to

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that, but we have no idea what that is!’ Or do they make symbols in very abstract concepts, or is it much more something that is closer to?

Yes, we have a group of signs in our sign lists, because we all use sign lists, and in sign lists we generally organize hieroglyphs according to categories of what they represent; This goes back to our predecessors, and there is a category that says unidentified. So there are hieroglyphs that we still cannot identify with certainty, although in some cases we can read them and we can read them because they are combined with other signs that clearly give us the name of the noun or verb, but we don't actually know what the image is about. , there are some signs like this.

Not here. Here we know that we can identify each signal. Right, so all that together? We can try to read the entire inscription, do you want to try? I can do 'King of Upper and Lower Egypt'. Nsw.t bity. Oh, you expect me to remember the names of the words too? Just look at the hieroglyphs and read them! Well, this is the thing. Just look at the hieroglyphics and read them! To be honest, I have two problems. One: a little bit of ADHD, so the short-term memory isn't so fantastic, but the other thing is that the concepts stick out very, very well.

So I can do certain parts and not necessarily others. So, for example, I know that Horus is in Shedet. I know this because the heart is in the human being and the human being is looking outwards, so I like to remember the construction and the thing and I also remember that this is Sherat without putting a b on it, so we have that because there is a double closure ,uh. Below, in the back, I remember that it's very big who is from that place because they are doing the double line, but they are doing it in a more artistic way, so they are doing it with two perfects, so I have a perfect explanation. and then we choose OK, Upper and Lower Egypt, since most of the geographies are feminine, so they are both underlined by the T, which lets you know that that thing is feminine, so the strange flower is above and B is below.

Yeah, okay, so he's the lord of the two lands, so they're practically hammering that house and then he's going to do something. There is a verb that we didn't have time to talk about the verb because things are missing except the loanword. has time to talk about a verb, so I'll never forget that an eye is a verb and then we move on to this part. I remember what they do, so they are providers of life, oh no, they are being given life and so on. stability because they are piling up all the building materials in this giving life instability that is what the two gods are doing to our great companion here who I keep forgetting the name is not a mediter it is the other ah I keep forgetting the name I am very sorry, okay and then they are enshrined for eternity in a big circle and now for a professional reading and translation of the hot Eminem lintel, so we have Eminem Hearts, the name of the king, he is king of the lord of Upper and Lower Egypt. of the two lands the Lord who made offerings probably the part has disappeared we have Horus Harry IP ad Horace who is in shadat Sobek sabak shadati Sobek to one of the shadets or crocodilopolis and Greek times di ankh Jets to whom it has been given or who gives life and stability thank you very much I really feel like I could have

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ed a little to read hieroglyphs.

If you liked this video, you might like to learn more about hieroglyphs, how they were deciphered and what they sound like, I think. It's great that we turned off the AV today in space because we need to talk and you need to be able to hear us, but you can hear these words being said in hieroglyphs. The ancient egypt unlock is available until february 19 and i. I may have favorites I think it's my favorite I think it's my favorite exhibition it's really very good um it really really is great to see and learn thanks um I mean you're a dangerous place anyway the details are below they're about to pop up   I hope that you have enjoyed learning hieroglyphs, thank you very much Elena, you are welcome