The giraffe and the hare: hieroglyphs in Deir el-Medina tombs as indicators of a painter's handwriting
Tue 17 Sept
|London
Dr Elizabeth Bettles, Visiting Research Fellow, NINO, Leiden University
Time & Location
17 Sept 2024, 19:00 – 23:00
London, University Way, London E16 2RD, UK
About the event
Abstract
Hieroglyphic signs of the giraffe (Gardiner E27) and the hare (Gardiner E34) within texts painted in Ramesside tombs in Deir el-Medina are among signs which help identify the distinctive handwriting style of individual painters who lived in the workmen’s village at this time. As a result, they offer information about the different funerary contexts where a painter could work and the nature of his involvement in the thriving funerary commerce. Furthermore, they indicate the extent to which the components of painted signs can vary from the images published in Egyptologically-accepted sign-lists.