.png) Title page forEgyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs (1950) second edition | |
| Author | SirAlan Gardiner |
|---|---|
| Language | English withEgyptian texts |
| Subject | Egyptian language,Language |
| Genre | Textbook |
| Publisher | Clarendon Press, Oxford (1927, first edition) ; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (1950, second edition, revised) ; Griffith Institute, Oxford (1957, third edition, revised) |
Publication date | 1927 (first edition) 1950 (second edition, fully revised) 1957 (third edition, revised) |
| Pages | 646 |
Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs is a 1927 book by English EgyptologistAlan Gardiner. First published in 1927 inLondon by theClarendon Press, it has been reprinted several times since. The third edition, published in 1957, is the most widely used version for the subject. Through a series of 33 lessons, the book gives a very thorough overview of thelanguage andwriting system ofancient Egypt. The focus of the book is the literary language of theMiddle Kingdom. The creation of the book resulted in the development of an accurate and detailed hieroglyphic typeset,Gardiner's Sign List.
Gardiner's work is considered to this day to be the most thorough textbook of the Egyptian language in existence, although subsequent developments have supplanted a number of aspects of Gardiner's understanding of Egyptian grammar, particularly with regard to the verbal system.[citation needed]
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