Heiroglyphs Dictionary free download

[Ebikatsu]

Non copyrighted Dictionary of Hieroglyphs available in PDF for download folks, just click on the PDF in the left hand box 'View the book'.



http://www.archive.org/details/egyptian ... 01budguoft

http://www.archive.org/details/egyptian ... 02budguoft

[LivinginLuxor]

The problem is that it is a PDF of Budge's outdated dictionary. Many of his meanings have been discounted over the years as more linguistic discoveries have been made.

[Ebikatsu]

No Idea LIL
I am not an expert on Heiroglyphs

Just saw it and though it might be of interest to someone.

[Horus]

Ebi wrote:

I am not an expert on Heiroglyphs

And with few exceptions, neither is anyone else Ebi. Regardless of whose interpretation you use as a reference there will always be someone else who has a different slant. I don’t think that the average reader on this site is going to be overly concerned that if Budge deciphers certain hieroglyphs to mean ‘Chastised’ then goes on to extrapolate that the whole inscription means ‘To chastise the land’ that he is very far out with his translation, we get the general idea of what is being said.

Whether or not another scholar decides that the interpretation should read ‘He taxed the land’ is only important in an academic way, it has little impact on the average person who just wants to understand and read some hieroglyphs.

Until Stan or someone else comes up with another free and better alternative then I would say it is well worth downloading to a memory stick or similar and keeping it for a reference source. I have done just that and had a quick peek and it is more than just a device for translating the meanings, it is showing in the writer’s hand, the thought processes behind his translations.

To dismiss it as out of date is to ignore everything in history that precedes the latest discovery or interpretation, remember the saying,
“Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants” we only know what we know today because we build upon the knowledge of the past.

[Ebikatsu]

Thank you Horus

“Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants” we only know what we know today because we build upon the knowledge of the past.
That is very true.

I'm glad you found it of use and interesting.

[LivinginLuxor]

There's a quite a few online dictionaries.

http://hieroglyphs.net/000501/html/000-016.html

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/er/bein ... nlich.html

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/egyptian.htm

I'm sorry, but I don't really like Budge or his writings. They were probably groundbreaking at the time, but as I said, they are outdated now. His translation of the book of the dead is still in print, despite the fact that more modern and accurate translations are now available.

[Horus]

Thanks for the links Stan
Yes I also have Budges 'Book of the Dead' along with the James Wasserman's modern version 'The Egyptian Book of The Dead' (The book of going forth by day) They both deal with the papyrus of the scribe Ani, but I still find it interesting to compare both versions.

[SoCalledEgyptologist]

I haven't really read Budge, but just to make a small point: in something like hieroglyphs the leaps in the research are so vast that it could be differences like "he burned the land" later turning out to be "he burned the candle". So just take the old ones with a pinch of salt

[SoCalledEgyptologist]

P.S. that example was just from think air, because I don't they actually had candles (as such) in ancient egypt

[Ebikatsu]

P.S. that example was just from think air, because I don't they actually had candles (as such) in ancient egypt

The roofs of the temples have a lot of soot but I think that this was maybe oil lamps rather than candles.
Hmmmmmmmmm....wonder when the first candle was invented??

probably Scotland where the oil froze!!

[Horus]

I seem to recall that the first candles were just a reed dipped in animal fat.