Signs, language, and culture : the semograms of the Pyramid Texts between iconicity and referential reality /

The signs of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing are pictograms, i.e. images that represent beings and objects of reality. The main characteristic of pictograms is their iconicity. An icon conveys meaning through the image, which distinctly refers to a real referent by depicting several of its defining fe...

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Other Authors:	Cervelló Autuori, Josep (Editor), Orriols-Llonch, Marc (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English French
Language Notes:	Contributions in English and French.
Published:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024].
Series:	Harvard Egyptological studies ; v. 26.
Subjects:	Pyramid texts. Egyptian language > Writing, Hieroglyphic.