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| author | Borrego Gallardo, Francisco L. |
| author_facet | Borrego Gallardo, Francisco L. |
| contents | <div> <div><span dir="ltr">The</span> <span dir="ltr">Pyramid Texts</span> <span dir="ltr">are an exceptional domain to approach the understanding that </span><span dir="ltr">ancient Egyptians had of the falcons and how they classified them in their cultural uni</span><span dir="ltr">verse. In this corpus several types of hieroglyphs of falconids are present. The first one </span><span dir="ltr">is the standing falcon with folded wings (G5). It works mainly as a repeater of ‘falcon’, </span><span dir="ltr">the prototype of the basic level category [falconid], and a classifier of other words </span><span dir="ltr">and categories related to it. A second falcon sign, G158, very probably represents a cat</span><span dir="ltr">egory that groups both adult female specimens and young ones, and it also classifies the </span><span dir="ltr">term ‘breast’ by metonymy. Thirdly, the crouching falcon (G11) and its variants, possibly </span><span dir="ltr">classifiers of the category [infant falcon], are present in a relatively closed category </span><span dir="ltr">of basic-level terms, all of them being theonyms. It has been found that in the</span> <span dir="ltr">Pyramid </span><span dir="ltr">Texts</span> <span dir="ltr">there is no single basic-level falcon sign, but several basic signs (G5, G158, G11) </span><span dir="ltr">encompassing distinct semantics depending mainly on the sex, age, and ethology of </span><span dir="ltr">the referents, and functioning primarily as repeaters. This changes after the Old King</span><span dir="ltr">dom, when the number of falcon classifiers is reduced and a part of their categorical </span><span dir="ltr">scope is modified.</span></div> </div> |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | The Falcon Classifiers in the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom Borrego Gallardo, Francisco L. Ancient Egypt Egyptology Hieroglyphic script Pyramid Texts Old Kingdom Classifiers Falcons Falconidae Raptors Semograms Classification Hieroglyphs <div> <div><span dir="ltr">The</span> <span dir="ltr">Pyramid Texts</span> <span dir="ltr">are an exceptional domain to approach the understanding that </span><span dir="ltr">ancient Egyptians had of the falcons and how they classified them in their cultural uni</span><span dir="ltr">verse. In this corpus several types of hieroglyphs of falconids are present. The first one </span><span dir="ltr">is the standing falcon with folded wings (G5). It works mainly as a repeater of ‘falcon’, </span><span dir="ltr">the prototype of the basic level category [falconid], and a classifier of other words </span><span dir="ltr">and categories related to it. A second falcon sign, G158, very probably represents a cat</span><span dir="ltr">egory that groups both adult female specimens and young ones, and it also classifies the </span><span dir="ltr">term ‘breast’ by metonymy. Thirdly, the crouching falcon (G11) and its variants, possibly </span><span dir="ltr">classifiers of the category [infant falcon], are present in a relatively closed category </span><span dir="ltr">of basic-level terms, all of them being theonyms. It has been found that in the</span> <span dir="ltr">Pyramid </span><span dir="ltr">Texts</span> <span dir="ltr">there is no single basic-level falcon sign, but several basic signs (G5, G158, G11) </span><span dir="ltr">encompassing distinct semantics depending mainly on the sex, age, and ethology of </span><span dir="ltr">the referents, and functioning primarily as repeaters. This changes after the Old King</span><span dir="ltr">dom, when the number of falcon classifiers is reduced and a part of their categorical </span><span dir="ltr">scope is modified.</span></div> </div> |
| title | The Falcon Classifiers in the Pyramid Texts of the Old Kingdom |
| topic | Ancient Egypt Egyptology Hieroglyphic script Pyramid Texts Old Kingdom Classifiers Falcons Falconidae Raptors Semograms Classification Hieroglyphs |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004721043_007 |