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An Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary : With an Index of English Words, King List, and Geographical List with Indexes, List of Hieroglyphic Characters, Coptic and Semitic Alphabets (Vol 1) (Paperback)

~ E. A. Wallis Budge (Author)
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Volume 1 of the monumental work containing about 25,000 words and terms that occur in texts ranging from 3000 B.C. to 600 A.D. Each entry consists of a transliteration of the word, the word in hieroglyphs, and the meaning in English. Indispensable to serious student.

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  • Paperback: 748 pages
  • Publisher: Dover Publications (May 1, 1978)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0486236153
  • ISBN-13: 978-0486236155
  • Product Dimensions: 10 x 6.1 x 2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
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56 of 61 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware!, January 11, 2001
By Kat K. Munro (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
This two book set has some merits as an extensive base of heiroglyphic information. It is put together in a fairly easy to use format. HOWEVER!

Please be wary that this is the second half of the complete book. The first volume, or the first half of the dictionary, is not available for purchase. Before you think of purchasing this title, be sure that you have found the first volume, otherwise the back half is more than useless. I purchased this thinking I would easily find the first half, but was proved wrong.

Due to the outdated nature of this material, I recommend you find a more contemporary dictionary of Ancient Egyptian that is in its entirety.

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76 of 87 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Beware of Budge!, February 22, 2001
By absent_minded_prof (Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
This book contains many hieroglyphs, and offers translation keys, but...

Let me just warn people that real archaeologists, real Egyptologists don't have a whole lot of respect for the author of this book anymore. A lot of conventions in translation have sort of moved on since his time. In the movie "Stargate," they make fun of him a little. They do this because, in the 21st century, people don't really use his writings anymore. You need to be very careful of anything Budge says.

Look for "Egyptian Grammar" by Sir Alan Gardiner. That's the standard textbook, used by real Egyptologists. The magazine KMT is good to know about, too. It's all about ancient Egypt, and is easy to find online.

If you enjoy this type of puzzle-solving, let me recommend a few titles. "The Decipherment of Linear B," by John Chadwick, "Breaking the Maya Code" by Michael Coe, and "The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries" by David Ulansey are all still in print. "Forgotten Scripts" by Cyrus Gordon, and "Voices in Stone" by Ernst Doblhofer are harder to find, but if you ask your local librarian to search for them using interlibrary loan services, he or she will probably find them. It's really worth it... Also, there are still a few ancient scripts out there that no one has deciphered yet. The Indus Valley Script, the Easter Island Script, and the Meroitic script are three of them. The Meroitic script could shed light someday on the issue of how much contact there was between Ancient Egypt and pre-historic Africa. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, at ..., has the best collection around on Meroe, and Meroitic, if anyone's interested. A good book for that script is "Ancient African Civilizations," edited by Stanley Burstein, which contains several useful chapters.

Well, happy deciphering to you!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Beware! This work is out of date!, May 5, 2003
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This book is very, very old. There's nothing wrong with the scholarship in this book - Budge was no nut case - but about 10% of what's in here is flat wrong because it is outdated. We've learned a considerable amount since the days of Budge. Use Gardiner's Middle Egyptian Grammar, E. O. Faulkner's Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, and/or Allen's grammar. Budge is still useful, but only for advanced students who know enough to know which parts are wrong. For heaven's sake, if you're just starting out, avoid this book!
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1.0 out of 5 stars No longer a good source -- don't buy it!
In the movie _Stargate_, Daniel Jackson is standing beside a chalkboard on which is written Egyptian hieroglyphs. He looks at the translation and says, "No. This is wrong. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Bronwyn P. Noble

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I was suprised it was n° 1 out of 2
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Published 18 months ago by Bernard Wuillaume

5.0 out of 5 stars Indispensible reference work
This work, volumes one and two, constitutes an indispensible reference work for the Anglophone Egyptologist, amateur and professional. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Rev. Harold Moss (Horemas@aol.com

5.0 out of 5 stars Budge is a GREAT WAY to become FLUENT in this language
Budge is the best way to go if you are serious about becoming fluent in this beautiful language. The fact is that Budge puts the symbol, the transliteration, and the translation... Read more
Published on April 6, 2006 by MariAuwsar KhanaAuwsar Ankhasa...

5.0 out of 5 stars The best just keeps getting better!
If your reading the Heiroglyphics you will need this book so don't even kid your self if you think you won't because it's worth it's weight in gold. Read more
Published on March 16, 2006 by Knowledge Seeker

5.0 out of 5 stars egyptian heiroglyphic dictionaries
i have purchased both of the volumes of this set and have found a lot of differences in the main transliteration of the hieroglyphics, but these two books are well worth the money... Read more
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2.0 out of 5 stars Egyptian Heiroglyphics
I wasn't happy with the book. It is outdated and doesn't measure up to some of the newer editions. I did get some benefit out of it but not enough to say the book was worth the... Read more
Published on November 16, 2005 by Katherine Zurenda

4.0 out of 5 stars This book is very useful!
This book has had very mixed reactions from those who have read it. Budge was writing at a time when people were unsure of the exact values of certain characters, and when many... Read more
Published on June 9, 2004 by charlie

4.0 out of 5 stars Budge's Dictionary in Two Volumes
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