Visual Aesthetics of Ancient Egyptian Writing

1. Introduction: Rethinking the visual culture of ancient Egyptian scripts - Stephen Quirke, Hany Rashwan and Rita Lucarelli; 2. Preface: iconicity in ancient Egyptian Writing - Antonio Loprieno; 3. Wonderful signs: aspects of visuality of ancient Egyptian (hand)writing - Ursula Verhoeven; 4. "The signs revealed their forms. He called to them and they answered to him", The anthropomorphized hieroglyphs as (inter)active image-text compositions in Ancient Egypt - Ghada Mohamed; 5. Writing and creation: hieroglyphs in Egyptian discourse - Katherine Davis; 6. Visual Poetics in ancient Egyptian and Chinese writings: a comparative study - Tian Tian; 7. Writing ms in the Religious Hymns of the New Kingdom (c. 1539-1077 BCE) - between visual aspects and semantic implications (or: The Importance of Being B3) - Guilherme Borges Pires; 8. Determinatives of the verb Hmsi âto sitâ in context, or can sitting be kneeling? - Edyta Kopp; 9. The visuality of cursive storywriting in ancient Egypt - Nikolaos Lazaridis and Tara Prakash; 10. Calling out the name: embodiment in ancient Egyptian personal names from the late Old Kingdom - Julia Clare Francis Hamilton; 11. Curse like an Egyptian: scribal choice of Å¡tm and Å¡ne¥ determinatives - Ahmed Osman; 12. Hidden images of ritual power: a new look at Crypt South 3 in the temple of Hathor at Dendera - Barbara A. Richter; 13. The names of Menhyt and Nebtu in the litanies of Esna; or, the use of figurative writing in the definition of one goddess - Federica Pancin; 14. The (Other) World in words: determinatives as âtelltaleâ icons encoding the Egyptian Duat - Silvia Zago; 15. Crucible shape in Old Kingdom metalworking scenes: from visual to technical interpretations - Ahmed Mansour; 16. Graphic worlds in the Book of Two Ways - Jordan Miller; 17. Dances with kings: movement and dance-related lexemes in the Pyramid Texts - Angelo Colonna and Francesca Iannarilli; 18. âTo make them see Your Majestyâ: the visual program of the âPoetical Stelaâ of Thutmosis III - Scott B. Noegel; 19. How to think in hieroglyphs? Logical strategies of aesthetic representation in the Egyptian hieroglyphic script - Amr El Hawary; 20. Hieroglyph perception through embodied cognition and pictorial realism: toward an ontology of active imagination in ancient Egypt - Andrea Pasqui, Todd Shimoda and Stefano Natrella.