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Archidona Ramírez, Juan José (2020)

A Study of Abnormal Hieratic Dots, Ticks, and Strokes

Research master thesis | Classics and Ancient Civilizations (research) (MA)

Dots found in administrative texts are known from the Old Kingdom onwards. Sometime during the late New Kingdom and early Third Intermediate period the occurrence and functions of dots augment and form a new system that reaches its pinnacle in the abnormal hieratic documents of the 25th and 26th dynasties. In one abnormal hieratic text of 26 lines over 100 dots are written with 10 different functions, such as ending sentences, introducing relative clauses, indicating a suffix pronomen and more. The system of dots is still partly noticeable in the early demotic material. This thesis analyses the different dots, strokes and ticks in 19 abnormal hieratic texts and includes a transcription of each one, as well as a list of corrections to readings from previous publications.

Abnormal Hieratic

Punctuation

Checkmark

Hieratic

Dots

Strokes

Ticks

Author

Archidona Ramírez, Juan José

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Egyptology

Supervisors

Donker van Heel, Koenraad

ECTS Credits

25

Language

en