NMC103H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: First Dynasty Of Egypt, Hieratic, Buto
18 May 2016
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How arts and text are related to each other. ** exams may have picture question perspective used today aspective egyptian style show as many aspects of the whole as possible. By emma brunner traut dating egyptian art: middle kingdom big ears, drooping eyelids, less youthful perfection. Amarna period art is more lifelike intimate scenes elongated faces. Hieroglyphs appear and are both pictographs and phonograms. Rosetta stone one of the 3 mouths of the nile delta has 3 languages helped decipher hieroglyphs. Coptic is the language of the christian egyptian. 1824 published precise system of hieroglyphics hieroglyphics. Egyptian afro asiatic (also called hammito semitic) Ideograms/logograms represent meaning for examples eye but also had consonantal sound. Normally unilateral + 1 other + ideogram (as determinative) Actions of head and heart eating, speaking, loving, thinking. Abstract concepts a scroll tied represents ideas, suggestions, convictions. I ideogram stoke read what is depicted.
