It’s been a while… seven years? Something like that. I was pretty sure that I was done with the site when I made my last post. I’d left my Ph.D. program by then and moved on to a different career. Even though Egyptology was all I’d known for the bulk of my academic life, I …
It’s been a while since I’ve updated anything on this site (years?), and to be honest, there probably won’t be another update after this post. This site started as a fun project during my undergrad. I worked on it nearly every day back then, trying to make it a great study tool. It was a …
This post doesn’t have much to do with Egyptian Hieroglyphs, but it makes for an interesting story. On a whim, I decided to check out Google’s Webmaster Tools. I don’t use the tools as often as I should, but I was interested in seeing who was linking to the site. One page stood out. This …
Someone out there likes me! Well, enough to scrape my content. Beware of mdw-ntr.com Read More »
And we’re back! It has been a while since I’ve been able to update the site–sorry for the lack of activity. Now that I’m done with my thesis, I have enough free time to update the site consistently. I want to write a quick blog post to share a little about what I have been …
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As promised, here is another section of The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, lines 9-17.
In case you missed it, you can find lines 1-8 here, and the answers are posted in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs forum. Again, if you would like to see the transliteration, transliteration, and comments, you need to register for the forums.
In the last part we were introduced to a msw iqr, “excellent follower,” who was addressing ohis superior, the “ty-.” The excellent follower speaks of the success of the expedition, emphasizing that there were no losses and they returned home safely. At this point, it is unclear who this excellent follower is or why he is addressing his superior of the success of the expedition of which he was a member. The next few lines may shed some light…
In this article (and the following) I will be slowly working through a Middle Egyptian text. Each week I will post a few lines of the text for you to work through. You can work through them at your own pace. A translation, transliteration, as well as parsing comments will be made available in the forums each week. So, if you would like to test your translation against another, all you need to do is sign up for our forums.
Additionally, If you are getting stuck, feel free to ask your questions in the forums. Other people working through the text may have the same problem.
Eventually, once the text is completed, it will be available in full form in a new Egyptian text page that will debut later this year.
Below are the first 7 lines in The Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor, good luck!
The site has been up and running for about a week now. I’m surprised at seeing this amount of traffic so early, but it’s nice.
So I thought, rather than writing about something related to ancient Egypt, I’d share a little bit about myself and why I began this project.
In the middle of my undergrad, I transferred to a school that offered courses in Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic, and Coptic in order to pursue a degree in Egyptology. I felt the current track I was on wasn’t leading the direction I wanted, so I decided to make the leap.
It was one of the best decisions I ever made.
