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[modifica] Area di Lavoro
Serapeo di Alessandria
[modifica] Il recinto dell'acropoli attualmente (XXI secolo)
L'acropoli di Alessandria è stata trasformata in un parco archeologico con collocazione di alberi che circondano una collina. Per tutto il recinto si incontrano resti archeologici rinvenuti durante gli scavi che coordinati dall'archeologo G. Botti:
- Frammenti di colonne che si tritiene provenire dal Serapeo
- Statua orante di Ramesse II insieme ad un re non identifato della dinastia saitica
- Statua di Ramses II seduto
- Capitelli corinzi e ionici
- UNa sfinge senza testa con il cartiglio di Horemhab
- Due sfingi in granito rosa collocate davanti alla cosidetta colonna di Pompeo. Furono scoperte nel 1906 nella zna di Ahari Abu Mansur.
- Resti di un antico quartiere
- Due gallerie utilizzate come catacombe cristiane anche se alcuni archeologi contestano tale utilizzo affremando che le nicchie nella pareti sono troppo piccole per ospitare dei cadaveri. Si trovano nella zona nord
- Ai piedi della collina ( a sud-est) si trova una statua dedicata a Iside Faria (?) che fu rinvenuta in mare di fronte al forte di Qaitbey alla profondità di 8 metri.
- La cosiddetta Colonna di Pompeo, realizzata in effetti in onore di Diocleziano.
[modifica] I primi secoli dell'era cristiana
[modifica] Ecclesiastical history
The now titular see of Egypt had many martyrs in the persecution of Diocletian, among others St. Athanasia with her three daughters, and St. Cyrus and John. There was here a monastery called Metanoia, founded by monks from Tabennisi, where many a patriarch of Alexandria took shelter during the religious quarrels of the fifth century. Two miles east of Canopus was the famous Pharaonic temple of Manouthin, afterwards destroyed by monks, and a church on the same spot dedicated to the Evangelists. St. Cyril of Alexandria solemnly transported the relics of the holy martyrs Cyrus and John into the church, which became an important place of pilgrimage. It was here that St. Sophronius of Jerusalem was healed of an ophthalmy that had been declared incurable by the physicians (610-619), whereupon he wrote the panegyric of the two saints with a collection of seventy miracles worked in their sanctuary (Migne, P.G., LXXXVII, 3379-676)
[modifica] Problemi di traslitterzione
Nel campo dell'egittologia la traslitterazione è il processo attraverso cui si converte un testo redatto in grafia egzia in simboli alfabetici rappresentanti in modo univoco glifi della scrittura geroglifica o le loro controparti nella grafia ieratica o demotica. Questa pratica facilità anche la pubblicazione di testi provenienti dall'antico Egitto nei casi in cui non è possibile inserire immagini o disegni dell'originale.
E' fondamentale rimarcare che il processo di traslitterazione non coincide con quello di trascrizione; quest'ultimo produce una sequenza di simboli pronunciabile e quindi dipende dalla lingua moderna in cui viene realizzato. Ad esempio il nome del fondatore della XXII dinastia egizia è traslitterato come ššnq ma viene trascritto come Shoshenq in inglese, Sheshonq in italiano, Chechanq in francese, Sjesjonk in olandese e Scheschonq in tedesco.
E' comunque da rilevare che le trascrizioni sono parzialmente ipotetiche a causa della scarsa conoscenza che possediamo della fonetica dell'antico egizio
Template:IPA notice As important as transliteration is to the field of Egyptology, there is no one single standard scheme in use for hieroglyphic and hieratic texts. Some might even argue that there are as many systems of transliteration as there are Egyptologists. However, there are a few closely related systems that can be regarded as conventional. Many non-German-speaking Egyptologists use the system described in Gardiner 1954, whereas many German-speaking scholars tend to opt for that used in the Wörterbuch der aegyptischen Sprache (Erman and Grapow 1926–1953), the standard dictionary of the ancient Egyptian language. However, there is a growing trend, even among English-speaking scholars, to adopt a modified version of the method used in the Wörterbuch (e.g., Allen 2000).
Although these conventional approaches to transliteration have been followed since most of the second half of the Nineteenth century to the present day, there have been some attempts to adopt a modified system that seeks to utilise the International Phonetic Alphabet to a certain degree. The most successful of these is that developed by Wolfgang Schenkel (1990), and it is being used fairly widely in Germany and other German-speaking countries. More recent is a proposal by Thomas Schneider (2003) that is even closer to the IPA, but its usage is not presently common. The major criticism levelled against both of these systems is that they give an impression of being much more scientifically accurate with regard to the pronunciation of Egyptian. Unfortunately this perceived accuracy is debatable. Moreover, the systems reflect only the theoretical pronunciation of Middle Egyptian and not the older and later phases of the language, which are themselves to be transliterated with the same system.
[modifica] Electronic transliteration
In 1984 a standard, ASCII-based transliteration system was proposed by an international group of Egyptologists at the first Table ronde informatique et égyptologie and published in 1988 (see Buurman, Grimal, et al., 1988). This has come to be known as the Manuel de codage (or MdC) system, based on the title of the publication, Inventaire des signes hiéroglyphiques en vue de leur saisie informatique: Manuel de codage des textes hiéroglyphiques en vue de leur saisie sur ordinateur. It is widely used in e-mail discussion lists and internet forums catering to professional Egyptologists and the interested public.
Although the Manuel de codage system allows for simple "alphabetic" transliterations, it also specifies a complex method for electronically encoding complete ancient Egyptian texts, indicating features such as the placement, orientation, and even size of individual hieroglyphs. This system is used (though frequently with modifications) by various software packages developed for typesetting hieroglyphic texts (such as WinGlyph, MacScribe, InScribe, Glyphotext, WikiHiero, and others).
Advances in the Unicode standard have made it possible to almost fully transliterate Egyptian texts completely using a relatively complete Unicode font, without having to revert to a special transliteration font (as was often done in the past). The table of various transliteration schemes found below, for example, uses Unicode. There are, however, three characters that are not included in the Unicode 4.0 specification, but have been proposed for Unicode 4.1. These are the so-called Egyptian alef (represented here as <3>), yodh (represented here as <ỉ> Unicode U+1EC9), and ayin (represented here as <ˁ> Unicode U+02C1).
As the latest stage of pre-Coptic Egyptian, Demotic texts have long been transliterated using the same system(s) used for hieroglyphic and hieratic texts. However in 1980, Demotists adopted a single, uniform, international standard based on the traditional system used for hieroglyphic, but with the addition of some extra symbols for vowels (which are frequently indicated in Demotic) and other letters that were written in the Demotic script. The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (or CDD) utilises this method. As this system is likely only of interest to specialists, for details see the references below.
- de Cenival, Françoise. 1980. "Unification des méthodes de translittération." Enchoria: Zeitschrift für Demotistik und Koptologie 10:2–4.
- Johnson, Janet H. 1980. "CDDP Transliteration System." Enchoria 10:5–6.
- Johnson, Janet H. 1991. Thus Wrote 'Onchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic. 2nd ed. Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 45. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Tait, William John. 1982. "The Transliteration of Demotic." Enchoria 11:67–76.
- Thissen, Heinz-Josef. 1980. "Zur Transkription demotischer Texte." Enchoria 10:7–9.
[modifica] Table of conventional transliteration schemes
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Erman & Grapow 1926–1953 |
Gardiner 1957 |
Buurman, Grimal, et al. 1988 |
Schenkel 1991 |
Hannig 1995 |
Allen 2000 |
Schneider 2003 |
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3 |
3 |
A |
3 |
3 |
3 |
ɹ |
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ỉ/j |
ỉ |
i |
ỉ |
j |
j |
ỉ |
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|
ỉj |
y |
y |
y |
y |
y |
y |
|
|
ˁ |
ˁ |
a |
ˁ |
ˁ |
ˁ |
ɗ |
|
|
w |
w |
w |
w |
w |
w |
w |
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|
b |
b |
b |
b |
b |
b |
b |
|
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p |
p |
p |
p |
p |
p |
p |
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|
f |
f |
f |
f |
f |
f |
f |
|
|
m |
m |
m |
m |
m |
m |
m |
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n |
n |
n |
n |
n |
n |
n |
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r |
r |
r |
r |
r |
r |
l |
|
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h |
h |
h |
h |
h |
h |
h |
|
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ḥ |
ḥ |
H |
ḥ |
ḥ |
ḥ |
ḥ |
|
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ḫ |
ḫ |
x |
ḫ |
ḫ |
ḫ |
ḫ |
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ẖ |
ẖ |
X |
ẖ |
ẖ |
ẖ |
ẖ |
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s |
s |
s |
s |
z, s |
z |
s |
|
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ś |
s |
s |
ś |
s |
s |
ś |
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š |
š |
S |
š |
š |
š |
š |
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ḳ |
ḳ |
q |
ḳ |
q |
q |
ḳ |
|
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k |
k |
k |
k |
k |
k |
k |
|
|
g |
g |
g |
g |
g |
g |
g |
|
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t |
t |
t |
t |
t |
t |
t |
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ṯ |
ṯ |
T |
č |
ṯ |
ṯ |
c |
|
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d |
d |
d |
ṭ |
d |
d |
ḍ |
|
|
ḏ |
ḏ |
D |
č̣ |
ḏ |
ḏ |
c̣ |
[modifica] Samples of various transliteration schemes
The following text (rendered using WikiHiero) is transliterated below in some of the more common schemes.
(This text is conventionally translated into English as "an offering that the king gives; and Osiris, Foremost of Westerners [i.e., the Dead], the Great God, Lord of Abydos; and Wepwawet, Lord of the Sacred Land [i.e., the Necropolis]." It can also be translated "a royal offering of Osiris, Foremost of the Westerners, the Great God, Lord of Abydos; and of Wepwawet, Lord of the Sacred Land" [Allen 2000:§24.10].)
Erman & Grapow 1926–1953
- ḥtp-dỉ-nśwt wśỉr ḫntỉj ỉmntjw nṯr ˁ3 3bḏw wp-w3wt nb t3 ḏśr
Gardiner 1953
- ḥtp-dỉ-nswt wsỉr ḫnty ỉmntỉw nṯr ˁ3 3bḏw wp-w3wt nb t3 ḏsr
Buurman, Grimal, et al. 1988
- Htp-di-nswt wsir xnty imntiw nTr aA AbDw wp-wAwt nb tA Dsr
- A fully encoded, machine-readable version of the same text is:
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- M23-X1:R4-X8-Q2:D4-W17-R14-G4-R8-O29:V30-U23-N26-D58-O49:Z1-F13:N31-V30:N16:N21*Z1-D45:N25
Schenkel 1991
- ḥtp-dỉ-nswt wsỉr ḫnty ỉmntjw nčr ˁ3 3bč̣w wp-w3wt nb t3 č̣sr
Allen 2000
- ḥtp-dj-nswt wsjr ḫnty jmntjw nṯr ˁ3 3bḏw wp-w3wt nb t3 ḏsr
Schneider 2003
- ḥtp-ḍỉ-nśwt wśỉr ḫnty ỉmntjw ncr ɗɹ ɹbc̣w wp-wɹwt nb tɹ c̣śr
- Allen, James Paul. 2000. Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Buurman, Jan, Nicolas-Christophe Grimal, Michael Hainsworth, Jochen Hallof, and Dirk van der Plas. 1988. Inventaire des signes hiéroglyphiques en vue de leur saisie informatique: Manuel de codage des textes hiéroglyphiques en vue de leur saisie sur ordinateur. 3rd ed. Informatique et Égyptologie 2. Mémoires de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belle-Lettres (Nouvelle Série) 8. Paris: Institut de France.
- Erman, Adolf, and Hermann Grapow, eds. 1926–1953. Wörterbuch der aegyptischen Sprache im Auftrage der deutschen Akademien. 6 vols. Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs'schen Buchhandlungen. (Reprinted Berlin: Akademie-Verlag GmbH, 1971).
- Gardiner, Alan Henderson. 1957. Egyptian Grammar; Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs. 3rd ed. Oxford: Griffith Institute.
- Hannig, Rainer. 1995. Großes Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch–Deutsch: die Sprache der Pharaonen (2800–950 v. Chr.). Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt 64 (Hannig-Lexica 1). Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.
- Schenkel, Wolfgang. 1990. Einführung in die altägyptische Sprachwissenschaft. Orientalistische Einführungen. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.
- Schneider, Thomas. 2003. "Etymologische Methode, die Historizität der Phoneme und das ägyptologische Transkriptionsalphabet." Lingua aegyptia: Journal of Egyptian Language Studies 11:187–199.
- Demotic Egyptian
- Egyptian language
- Egyptian languages
- Egyptian hieroglyph
- Hieratic
- Transliteration
- WikiHiero: Manuel de Codage-based system for entering hieroglyphic texts on Wikipedia
[modifica] External links
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