First Steps In Egyptian

PART I. Introduction :—Egyptian Writing, Alphabetic signs, Syllabic signs, Determinatives, Pronouns, Nouns, The Article, Adjectives, Numbers, Measures, Time, divisions of, The Year, The Verb, The Adverb, Prepositions and Conjunctions, Particles, List of common words to be learnt, Egyptian Gods and Goddesses PART II. Texts with interlinear transliteration and word for word translation :—1. Extracts from the Prisse Papyrus 2. Extracts from the pyramid texts of Unas and Teta 3. Inscription from the tomb of Heru-khuf at Aswan 4. Inscription from the stele of Abu 5. Inscription of Ata 6. Inscription from the tomb of Khnemu-Hetep at Beni-hasan 7. Inscriptions from the tomb of Ameni-em-hat at Beni-Hasan 8. Stories of the reigns of Seneferu and Khufu 9. The Life of Amasis, the naval officer, as told by himself 10. The Harper's Lament 11. The Battle of Megiddo 12. Speech of Amen-Ra to Thothmes III 13. Address of Thothmes III to Osiris (Book of the Dead, Chap. CLIV) 14. Specimens of the Maxims of Ani 15. Hymn to Osiris 16. Inscription from the Stele of Tehuti-nefer 17. Inscription from the Stele of Tchanni 18. Inscription from the Stele of Sesh 19. Inscription from a sepulchral Stele 20. Inscription from the Stele of Amen-hetep 21. Hymn to the god of the Nile 22. Examples of the Proverbs of Tuauu-f-se-Kharthai 23. The Destruction of Mankind 24. The War of Rameses II. against the Kheta 25. Hymn to Ra (Book of the Dead, Chap. XV) 26. Numbers from the papyrus of Rameses III. 27. The Legend of Ra and Isis 28. From the Monument of Uah-ab-Ra em khu 29. Texts from the sarcophagus of Patepep 30. The Legend of the Seven Years' Famine in Egypt 3I. From an Inscription of Ptolemy V. PART III. Egyptian Texts untransliterated and untranslated*