| Preface | p. V |
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| Introduction | |
| Egyptian Writing | p. 1 |
| Alphabetic signs | p. 6 |
| Syllabic signs | p. 8 |
| Determinatives | p. 11 |
| Pronouns | p. 22 |
| Nouns | p. 24 |
| The Article | p. 26 |
| Adjectives | p. 30 |
| Numbers | p. 32 |
| Measures | p. 34 |
| Time, divisions of | p. 35 |
| The Year | p. 35 |
| The Verb | p. 36 |
| The Adverb | p. 42 |
| Prepositions and Conjunctions | p. 43 |
| Particles | p. 46 |
| A list of common words to be learnt | p. 48 |
| Egyptian Gods and Goddesses | p. 71 |
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| Texts with interlinear transliteration and word for word translation | |
| Extracts from the Prisse Papyrus (See Prisse d'Avennes, Facsimile d'un papyrus egyptien en caracteres hieratiques, Paris, 1847; and Virey, Etudes sur le Papyrus Prisse, Paris, 1887.) | p. 79 |
| Extracts from the pyramid texts of Unas and Teta (See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux, tomm. III, IV and V, Paris, 1882, 1883, 1884.) | p. 86 |
| Inscription from the tomb of Heru-khuf at Aswan (See Schiaparelli, Una tomba Egiziana (Atti della R. Accademia dei Lincei, anno CCLXXXIX., Ser. 4a, Classe di Scienzie Morali, t. X. Roma, 1893, pp. 22-53).) | p. 95 |
| Inscription from the stele of Abu (See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux, tom. III, p. 115 f.) | p. 99 |
| Inscription of Ata | p. 103 |
| Inscription from the tomb of Khnemu-Hetep at Beni-hasan (See Newberry, Beni Hasan, pt. 1. Lond., 1893, pl. 41.) | p. 104 |
| Inscriptions from the tomb of Ameni-em-hat at Beni-Hasan (See Newberry, op. cit., pll. 8, 11, etc.) | p. 106 |
| Stories of the reigns of Seneferu and Khufu For the hieratic text, transcript, etc., see Erman, Die Marchen des Papyrus Westcar, Berl., 1890, pll. 6, 7. | p. 114 |
| The Life of Amasis, the naval officer, as told by himself (See Lepsius, Denkmaler, Abth. III, Bl. 11, and for the last translation by Brugsch see Egypt under the Pharaohs, vol. 1, p. 249 ff.) | p. 126 |
| The Harper's Lament (See Stern, Aegyptische Zeitschrift, 1873, p. 60.) | p. 138 |
| The Battle of Megiddo (See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux, tom. II, p. 51 ff.) | p. 141 |
| Speech of Amen-Ra to Thothmes III. (See Mariette, Karnak, Leipzig, 1875, plate 11; and Brugsch, Geschichte Aegyptens, Leipz., 1877, p. 352 ff.) | p. 156 |
| Address of Thothmes III to Osiris (Book of the Dead, Chap. CLIV) (See Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. 1. Bl. 179.) | p. 168 |
| Specimens of the Maxims of Ani (See Chabas, L'Egyptologie, Chalons - sur - Saone, 1874; Amelineau, La Morale egyptienne, Paris, 1892.) | p. 172 |
| Hymn to Osiris (See Ledrain, Monuments Egyptiens, Pl. XXII ff.; and Chabas, Revue Archeologique, 1857, p. 65.) | p. 179 |
| Inscription from the Stele of Tehuti-nefer (See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux, tom. III, p. 122, tom. IV, p. 125.) | p. 189 |
| Inscription from the Stele of Tchanni (See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux, tom. IV, p. 130.) | p. 194 |
| Inscription from the Stele of Sesh (See Maspero, Recueil de Travaux, tom. IV, p. 127.) | p. 196 |
| Inscription from a sepulchral Stele (See Piehl, Recueil de Travaux, tom. I, p. 197.) | p. 200 |
| Inscription from the Stele of Amen-hetep (See Piehl, Recueil de Travaux, tom. II, p. 124.) | p. 202 |
| Hymn to the god of the Nile (See Birch, Select Papyri, pl. XX f.; Maspero, Hymne au Nil, Paris, 1868.) | p. 204 |
| Examples of the Proverbs of Tuauu-f-se-Kharthai (See Birch, Select Papyri, pll. XV-XX, CXXVIII-CXXXIV; and Maspero, Du Genre Epistolaire, Paris, 1872.) | p. 212 |
| The Destruction of Mankind (See Lefebure, Tombeau de Seti I, part IV, pll. 15-18; Brugsch, Die neue Weltordnung, Berlin, 1881; Naville, Trans. Soc. Bibl. Arch., vol. IV, p. 1 ff., vol. VIII, p. 412 ff.; Wiedemann, Die Religion der alten Aegypter, p. 32 ff.) | p. 218 |
| The War of Rameses II. against the Kheta (See Guieyesse, Recueil de Travaux, tom. VIII, pp. 136, 139.) | p. 231 |
| Hymn to Ra (Book of the Dead, Chap. XV) (See Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. I. Bl. 16.) | p. 235 |
| Numbers from the papyrus of Rameses III. (See Birch, Facsimile of an Egyptian Hieratic Papyrus, London, 1876.) | p. 239 |
| The Legend of Ra and Isis (See Pleyte and Rossi, Papyrus de Turin, pll. 31, 77, 131-8; Lefebure, Aegyptische Sprache, 1883, p. 27; Wiedemann, Die Religion, p. 29 f.) | p. 241 |
| From the Monument of Uah-ab-Ra em khu (See Piehl, Recueil de Travaux, tom. III, p. 28.) | p. 257 |
| Texts from the sarcophagus of Patepep (See Bergmann, Recueil de Travaux, tom. III, pp. 148-152.) | p. 257 |
| The Legend of the Seven Years' Famine in Egypt (See Brugsch, Die biblischen sieben Jahre der Hungersnoth, Leipzig, 1891.) | p. 261 |
| From an Inscription of Ptolemy V. (See Bouriant, Recueil de Travaux, tom. VI, p. 1 ff.) | p. 269 |
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| Egyptian Texts untransliterated and untranslated | p. 275 |
| Glossary | p. 291 |
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