Common Determinatives
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 Instructions for James Allen Exercise
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 Middle Egyptian by James Allen - Chapter 3 Exercise and Sign List 
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 Copy the whole Egyptian noun list in Leo Depuyd'ts Fundamentals of Egyptian Grammar. As you copy each noun, pay close attention to every glyph. If there is a glyph that you are not familiar with, look it up in the sign list and make sure that you understand what it is as an ideogram, phonogram, and/or determinative.

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 Look over the Sahidic Coptic alphabet a few times this week. In class on Tuesday, I will introduce this alphabet and demonstrate the importance of this last stage of Medu Netcher.

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 Please cross-reference the following Coptic nouns with Leo Depuydt's Core Vocabulary Noun List. Based upon the lecture video, practice pronouncing these Coptic words.

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 Please find the homework exercise at the end of Ch. 4 in James Allen, Middle Egyptian. You are to complete the first two exercises. In exercise #1, do not attempt letters "m" and "n." In exercise #2, do not attempt letter "j."

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 Please find attached a file on major prepositions in Medu Netcher. I want you to purchase a pack of blank 3 X 5 note cards. As you view the file, on the front of your blank note card should be the preposition and on the back of the note card should be the definition. After you have completed making these note cards, I want you to spend 5 minutes in the morning and 5 minutes at night every day reviewing these and testing yourself until you feel absolutely comfortable that you know them by heart. Do not worry if it takes you a long time. Just stay consistent. Next week we will introduce prepositional phrases and hopefully begin our discussion of the most prominent sentence type in Medu Netcher, adverbial sentences.

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 Please find attached a file from Allen's grammar book on Major particles found in section 10.3 and 10.4. I went over all of these particles in the lesson, but take some time to review them in written form. I have also attached a file on suffix pronouns and their uses. For this week, I want you to copy what you see and reduce it all to 3 X 5 blank note cards. In addition to this, I want you to copy the whole chart and uses of suffix pronouns 5 times on 5 different days this week in preparation for the lecture next week. 

Please find attached the following 3 files and the assignment for each one:

 Please find attached the first Egyptian scene that we will transliterate and translate in class next week. As you look at the scene, try to figure out all of the vocabulary that you know and then try to figure out how to transliterate and translate the scene. There is actually nothing in the scene that you cannot translate based upon the knowledge of Medu Netcher that you have thus far. Don't worry about if you can't transliterate or translate everything. Just try to make an attempt. With every scene, I will provide not only grammatical commentary, but also historical and cultural commentary allowing us to understand the meaning of the scene wholistically. When you present a scene, it's important to gather as much information as you can about the scene. Here is a general description of the attached scene without going into too much detail. Please note that these types of general details should be written and understood for every scene that you encounter:

General Theme: A Relief with a Libation scene
Present location: Bologna, Civic Archaeological Museum
inv. KS 1914Material: Limestone
Dimensions: 38 X 56 cm
Palagi Collection (Nizzoli)
Provenance (i.e., where it was found in Egypt): Unknown
Historical period: 19th to 20th dynasty (1292-1075 BCE) NOTE: This relief is a part of a tomb decoration.

Book Source: Il Senso Dell'arte Nell'antico Egitto (1990), p.149.

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 Please find attached a chart on demonstrative pronouns. Copy this chart five times, preferably on five different days.

 Also, find attached Raymond Faulkner's Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. This is the standard reference dictionary used by Egyptologists writing in English. Please read the separate attachment for more detailed instructions on the homework assignment using this dictionary.

Demonstrative Pronouns  


Homework Assignment- Raymond Faulkner Middle Egyptian Dictionary  


Raymond Faulkner- ME Dictionary  

 Review the list of 54 verbs that I gave you to copy from Allen's grammar book at the end of Chapter 12 in preparation for the lecture next week beginning our focus on verbs.

 Please find attached a chart of the dependent pronouns and their major uses. Please copy this chart and uses 5 times. It will be a couple of weeks before this is discussed.

 Please find attached a book by David Shennum entitled English-Egyptian Index of Faulkner's Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. This is an important work that you can always use for reference purposes. In addition, please find attached an assignment linked to this index. The assignment will require you to look up words in Shennum's English dictionary which will take you to specific pages in Faulkner's dictionary. Once you find the word, draw the glyphs, provide the transliteration, and translation of the word. 

 Please find attached a very small book by Raymond Faulkner entitled A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian: Addenda and Corrigenda. This work provides additions and corrections to his dictionary. At your leisure, you can just peruse the work. This is to be used as a reference work. There is no assignment attached to it.

Dependent Pronouns Chart  


English-Egyptian Index of Faulkner's Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian   

Assignment for English-Egyptian Index of Faulkner's Concise Dictionary  


A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian: Addenda and Corrigenda  

 Complete exercise on demonstrative pronouns in Allen, Ch. 5.

 Complete exercise in Allen on identifying the root class of the 54 verbs that you have already copied. I have also attached to this assignment a list of 36 third weak verbs from Gardiner's grammar book that you should copy.

 Complete exercises that focus on the basic verbal sentence structure extracted from Ch.2 and 3 of Gardiner's grammar book. I have attached the Medu Netcher verbal sentence structure for reference purposes.

 Please find attached a document on "Notes on Sentence Structure in Medu Netcher" which is a small review of concepts covered in the lecture.

Notes on Sentence Structure in Medu Netcher  

 Please find attached an assignment to be completed from Allen, Ch. 7 exercise on adjectival and nominal sentences.

Ch. 7 Allen Exercise on Adjectival and Nominal Sentences  

 Please find below the specific readings that were referenced in the video.

The white-fronted goose in Patrick Houlihan, The Birds of Ancient Egypt.  

Arielle Kozloff, "Pharaoh Was a Good Egg, But Whose Egg Was He?" in Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer (Ed.), Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt  

Detailed description of "Gold" in Kemet in Paul Nicholson and Ian Shaw, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology 

This lecture introduces prepositional nisbes. A prepositional nisbe is an adjective derived from a preposition. Most primary prepositions have a nisbe form. Prepositional nisbes are heavily used in epithets and titles of officials and divinities. After explaining prepositional nisbes, major examples of their use in titles are presented.

 Please read over the brief prepositional nisbe chart at least 3 times on 3 different days before class on Tuesday.

 This lecture continues the discussion on prepositional nisbes and provides major examples of their use in the titles of officials and divinities. 

 The first part of this lecture highlights important features of African cultural unity between Ancient Egypt and other African cultures by explaining the meaning and importance of leopard skin and walking sticks (i.e. medu) in the hands of high officials. The latter half of the discussion focuses on providing some necessary background to the discussion, transliteration, and translation of the late Old Kingdom tomb of Mehu by focusing on how Egyptologists generally describe architectural features of the ka-door and also highlighting the most important titles that Mehu held as Prime Minister of the country.

Assignments:

 1. Conduct a search on Google of the Tomb of Mehu. Click on the second entry entitled "A Virtual Tour through the Tomb of Mehu." Take a virtual tour of the tomb in preparation for the beginning of our more detailed discussion of the tomb next week.

 2. Review important features of grammar in preparation for next week, i.e. direct and indirect genitive, the offering formula and the relative form, participles (i.e. "adjective as modifier), prepositional nisbes, and the sDm.f form.

Hartwig Altenmuller- "The Leopard Skin in Ancient Egypt and Africa"

Aboubacry Moussa Lam- "Sticks, Clubs, and Scepters in Ancient Egypt and Black Africa"

Henry G. Fisher- "Notes on Sticks and Staves in Ancient Egypt"