Signs, Language, and Culture: The Semograms of the Pyramid Texts between Iconicity and Referential Reality

Josep Cervelló Autuori, PhD (1995) is Professor of Egyptology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and Director of the Institut d’Estudis del Pròxim Orient Antic (IEPOA) of the same university. He co-leads the Spanish-Egyptian Archaeological Mission in Saqqara (SEAMS). He has published monographs, book chapters, and articles mainly on the history, archaeology, and epigraphy of early and Old Kingdom Egypt.Marc Orriols-Llonch, PhD 2010, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is an Egyptologist and an associate professor at that university. His main line of research is gender studies in Egyptology, specifically sexual relations and masculinities, topics on which he has published several articles and book chapters.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionJosep Cervelló Autuori and Marc Orriols-Llonch1 The Bird Semograms of the God Dedun in the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin TextsHeri AbruñaMartí2 Round, Square or Both? The Skyscape in the Pyramid Texts as Expressed by SemogramsM.Victoria Almansa-Villatoro3 The Offering of the Eye of Horus in the Pyramid Texts: Performativity and Symbolic CreditLucas Baqué-Manzano4 Les lits déterminatifs de sḏr, « se coucher », dans les textes de la pyramide de Téti: Les critères stylistiques comme indices de datationÉlise Bène5 The Falcon Classifiers in the Pyramid Texts of the Old KingdomFranciscoL. BorregoGallardo6 Some Remarks on Kinship Determinatives in the Pyramid TextsMarcelo Campagno7 La graphie de l’ȝḫ.t dans les Textes des Pyramides et les Textes des SarcophagesCloé Caron et Valérie Angenot8 The Root jꜤr and Its Determinatives in the Royal and Private Funerary Texts of the Old KingdomReflections on the Afterlife in Egypt at the End of the Third MillenniumJosep CervellóAutuori9 Deserts and Mountains on the Walls: Hieroglyphs Related to Desert Areas and Foreign Countries in the Pyramid TextsAndrésDiego Espinel10 Modulating Semograms: Some Procedures for Semantic Specification and Re-categorization in the Pyramid Texts and Other Mortuary TextsCarlos GraciaZamacona11 Quelle continuité graphique entre l’iconographie prédynastique et les Textes des Pyramides?Ou, comment établit-on des catégories dans le réel entre le IVe et le IIIe millénaire?Gwenola Graff12 Le « sceptre » hétès dans les Textes des PyramidesNadine Guilhou†13 Sit on Osiris’s Chair: Uses, Meanings and Graphic Forms of ḥmsi҆ in the Pyramid TextsFrancesca Iannarilli14 Nédi, “nouveau” dieu de l’Égypte protodynastique, et la normalisation des effigies cultuellesCodification graphique, référent plastique et fonction idéologiqueBernard Mathieu15 Panther, Panther, Burning (Not so) Bright… The Impact of Iconicity on Sign Identity, Evolution and Obsolescence in the Pyramid TextsAngela McDonald16 External Male Genitalia Semograms 𓂸 [D52], 𓂺 [D53] in the Pyramid TextsMarc Orriols-Llonch17 De signes en aiguilles: À propos de quelques signes de vêtements et de parures dans les Textes des PyramidesJennifer Romion18 Quand l’homme descend du bœuf: De l’utilisation des parties bovines pour désigner le corps humain dans les Textes des PyramidesSimon ThuaultTable of Signs DiscussedTable of Passages DiscussedGeneral Index