The name of Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) will always be associated with the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. Champollion himself was a child prodigy who had taught himself numerous ancient languages in his teenage years, despite not having received any formal education. In this 1824 work, he expands on the discoveries he had previously outlined in 1822, giving a long and systematic account of his research, which was based on the insight of Thomas Young that clusters of hieroglyphs on the tri-lingual Rosetta Stone could be matched to known Greek and Latin names. He gave phonetic values to the signs, and then linked them to the Coptic language (familiar from its use in the liturgy of the Coptic Christian Church in Egypt), which he recognised as being descended from ancient Egyptian. The work was originally published in two volumes (the second being of illustrations), which are here bound as one.

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- Date Published: February 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108043908
- length: 556 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 31 mm
- weight: 0.7kg
- contains: 48 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Préface
Introduction
1. État actuel des études sur les hiéroglyphes, et sur l'écriture phonétique égyptienne employée dans la transcription des noms propres de rois grecs ou d'empereurs romains
2. Alphabet hiéroglyphique phonétiques appliqué aux noms propres de simples particuliers grecs et latins
3. Aperçus nouveaux sur les signes hiéroglyphiques phonétiques
4. Application de l'alphabet des signes phonétiques à divers groupes et formes grammaticales hiéroglyphiques
5. Application de l'alphabet phonétique aux noms propres hiéroglyphiques des dieux égyptiens. Lectures qui en résultent. Signes figuratifs. Signes symboliques
6. Application de l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques aux noms propres égyptiens hiéroglyphiques de personnages privés
7. Application de l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes à lecture des qualifications et des titres royaux inscrits sur les obélisques et les monumens égyptiens du premier style
8. Application de l'alphabet hiéroglyphique aux noms propres des Pharaons. Conséquences historiques qui en résultent
9. Des élémens premier du système d'écriture hiéroglyphique
10. Conclusion
Planches et explication.
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Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens Égyptiens

Jean-François Champollion
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