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Workshop "Introduction to Meroitic Script and Texts"
02 Feb 2019

 The workshop will cover the following points:

The point of studying Meroitic in Egypt
Historical outline of the Meroitic scripts.
Methodology of Decipherment.
The linguistic family of Meroitic and its relation to Nubian languages.
Cursory sketch of Meroitic grammar.
Meroitic glossary: local vocabulary and loan-words from Egyptian.
Typology of Meroitic texts: Funerary inscriptions, royal chronicles, religious scene captions, magic texts, …etc.
King Kharamadoye’s inscription from Kalabsha : historical context, initial protocol, hypotheses on the content of the text.
A field trip for practical training.
 
Course Fees: 300 L.E. for Egyptians/ 150 USD for non-Egyptians.
For reservation, kindly visit: https://www.bibalex.org/PTI/ar/Course/Details.aspx?ID=1259
Reservation deadline: January 28, 2019
For more information and details, kindly contact: Writing and Scripts Center.
Tel: (203) 4839999 – Ext. 6066
E-mail:  Writing.scripts@bibalex.org
 
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