Table des matières
Pierre Déléage
PréfaceDavid Wengrow
LiminalAlejandro Jiménez Serrano
Different aspects related to the most ancient Egyptian writingFrancis Lankester
Egyptian Script and Rock-Art. Connected or Unconnected?- Distribution and Dating of Egyptian Petroglyphs
- Distribution
- Dating the Petroglyphs
- Naqada I/early Naqada II boat motifs
- Naqada II Boat Motifs
- Naqada III Boat Motifs
- Funerary Connections
- Connections between the Petroglyphs and Predynastic Pottery
- Connections with, and the Importance of, Hunting
- Images of hunting in the desert
- Images of animal ‘control’ in the Central Eastern Desert
- Remains and images of hunting in the Nile Valley
- Images of hunting in Naqada III
- The Role of ‘Dancing’
- The power of dance
- Contrary explanations for the ‘arms raised’ figure
- Function of the ‘dancing’ figures
- Explaining the ‘Impossible Combinations’
- Composition of the combinations
- Human control of the combinations
- Funerary Practice in Desert and Valley
- Discussion
- Conclusion
Gwenola Graff
The Iconography on Decorated Ware- The corpus
- Sets of themes
- Types of scene
- The elements
- Ornemental pattern construction
- Number of elements per vase
- Associative field
- Elements imposition on the vases
- Graphic representations of combinations
- D-Ware syntax
- Syntaxical laws
- Parallels with the hieroglyphic writing during the Old Kingdom
- Conclusion
Edwin C. M. van den Brink, Christiana E. Köhler et Jane C. Smythe
Intact wine jars with pre-firing potmarks from the Early Dynastic cemetery at Helwan, Egypt- The Helwan excavations
- The Helwan wine jars bearing potmarks
- Wine Jars from Operations 3/1 and 3/3
- A. Wine jars with original tomb allocation numbers still preserved on them
- B. Wine jars without proveniences
- Operation 4
- Wine jar types represented in the Helwan assemblage
- Composition of the Helwan potmarks
- Comparison of the distribution of jars with potmarks by grave between the cemetery at Helwan and selected contemporary cemeteries in Lower Egypt
- Additional Recently proposed legible potmark signs
- Conclusions
Kathryn E. Piquette
Documenting Early Egyptian ImageryAnalysing past technologies and materialities with the aid of Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI)
Jane A. Hill
Categories of Control. Development of Cylinder Seal Glyptic within the Context of Egyptian State FormationGwenola Graff
Systèmes numériques égyptiens et mésopotamiensÉléments de comparaison
- Systèmes numérique et métrique égyptiens
- Notation numérique (fig. 1)
- Premières attestations
- Systèmes métriques (fig. 2)
- Mesures des surfaces
- Mesures des aires
- Mesures des poids
- Mesures de volume et de capacité
- Mesures des liquides
- Des récipients à l’origine des unités de mesure ?
- Vocabulaire des nombres et des opérations mathématiques
- Les systèmes numériques mésopotamiens
- Système numérique proto-élamite (fig. 4)
- Système numérique proto-cunéiforme
- Systèmes métriques (fig. 5)
- Conclusion
Anne Marie Christin
De la figure au signe d’écritureGwenola Graff et Alejandro Jiménez Serrano
Les racines de l’écriture hiéroglyphiqueApports de l’iconographie prédynastique – Synthèse