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B005570 - EGYPTIAN STUDIES
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Course Content
Prerequisites
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Type of Assessment
Course program
Suggested readings
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Academic Year 2018-19
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Psychology (FORLILPSI)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-OR/02 - EGYPTOLOGY AND COPTIC CIVILIZATION
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
26/02/2019 ⇒ 07/06/2019
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian language
Learning Objectives
The course provides an introduction to the system of hieroglyphic writing and to the language written during the Middle and New Kingdoms. The main objective is that the students will be able to learn how to read and to translate a text, under the teacher's guidance, examining and understanding the sentence construction and improving their analytic judgement.
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Rudiments of Middle-Egyptian grammar and reading texts in hieroglyphic writing.
Prerequisites
None; students are invited to review grammar terminology before beginning the course.
Teaching Methods
Lessons; didactic material will be provided by the teacher.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination: reading, translation and grammatical explanation of a short text, already examined during the lessons. The examination aims at checking the students' learning skills and making judgements.
Course program
Hieroglyphic writing: ideograms/logograms, phonetic signs, classifiers. Rudiments of Middle-Egyptian grammar: nouns, pronouns, adjectives. Nominal sentences. Verbal and pseudo-verbal sentence. The Perfect. Active and passive SDm.f . Reading of a text in hieroglyphic writing, which the students themselves may choose, of course among those suggested by the teacher.
Suggested readings
Suggested readings:A.H. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar, Oxford 1957; J.P. Allen, Middle Egyptian, Cambridge 2000.
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