Abstract
This is a short introduction to the hieroglyphic nature of ancient Egyptian material culture and its polyvalence using a bronze statuette of a lioness-headed goddess in front of an obelisk (formerly in the Omar Pasha Sultan Collection) as a case study. Because the lioness is not identified by an accompanying inscription, the essay demonstrates methods by which the identification and significance of the image can be unpacked.
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One begins with a discussion about the hieroglyphic nature of ancient Egyptian art1 by noting, first, that the tenets which govern the design of the hieroglyphs are precisely those which govern the design of ancient Egyptian visual representations
Barbara Richter discusses the polyvalence inherent in i3s, bald, and Racheli Shalomi-Hen demonstrates how the verb, sr, to foresee, determined by a giraffe, can connote the modern expression of “to chicken out.”3 This polyvalence is emphasized by the fact that the noun ‘w.t, small cattle, can be determined by any number of horned, African ruminants,4 a herd of which a modern commentator might never expect to associate with farm animals
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