exercise IX, Gardiner

You'd think, given the vastness of the internet, it would be possible to come up with a picture of the Poetical Stela of Tuthmosis III, considering there are two examples at Karnak. But Noooººº˚˚˚˚ºººoooOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! What up wid'at?

This is a portion of the text, the better portion. The rest of it is -- I don't know how to put this -- hyperbolic, to understate it at the very least. His dad is talking to Tuthmosis (here called Menkepherre, Tuthmosis is his prenomen)

I'm suddenly sensing harmful chemicals on the tip of my tongue. As if the air is filled with Lysol and bleach. That does it! I'm turning my air fresheners on high and buying a canary. This sort of thing would never have happened in ancient Egypt, that's for sure. But then few of them would make it past thirty anyway.

Gardiner, exercises VIII

n nḏnḏ･ỉ ḥnc ḏw ḳd I did not converse together with one of evil character but I did meet a lopsided man on one stilt mḥ･n ḥmw･f šnwt m ỉt cš3 nn ḏr his slaves filled the granary with plentiful grain without end which would be fine were it not for all the lizards ỉw rdỉ･n wỉ ḥm n-nsw-bỉt sḥtp-ỉb-rc m ḥ3ty-c n nỉwt･ỉ His Majesty, king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Sehotepibre, made me the big kahuna of my city. ROAR! wnn pt wnn mnw･ỉ tp t3 As long as there is the sky my monuments will be on the earth although a couple of them might lean over (As long as heaven exists) n sp ỉr･t(w) mỉtt ỉn bỉtyw ḏr rk nṯr-rc never had the like been done by the kings of Lower Egypt since the time of the sun god who presented a Japanese flag following a talk about the bees and the birds nn mhy･ỉ ḥr sḫr nb n nb･ỉ I will not be careless concerning any plan of my lord and by lord I mean boss and by boss I mean asshole who threatened to put my head on a pike rdỉ･n･f pr･ỉ r K3š tnw rnpt n gm･n･tw sp･ỉ ỉm he caused me to go to Cush every year and by not fault of mine was found there where the owl and myself had pizza ỉw ỉn･h ḥm-nṯr pn šs m ỉkr bỉt nn wn mỉtw･f m t3 pn r ḏr･f this priest brought the scribe who was excellent of qualities, there was not his equal in the entire land and for that we have the NEA to thank rdỉ･n･sn n･s nhy n t ḥnḳt they gave to her a little of bread and beer but it was the beer that got her all tied up in knots Okay, fine! I might have made up parts of that. Don't you think granary should be spelled grainary? Just say'n. See all the irrational stuff you gott'a remember? Ya know how I explain that? Laziness, pure and simple. Intergenerational laziness on a national scale. Boy, I sure did learn a lot today. I learned how to make cartouches in JSesh (easy) and how to freeform ligatures the easy way using the menu instead of the numerical way going strictly by the coding which is totally numerical and adjusting until it's right, or at least acceptable. I also learned how to save, in HTML at least, which provides access to the supporting files, and as PNG if not in JPEG (which is offered but doesn't work on Mac, I'll try again on PC later), and to resize the whole lot while still vectored instead of as bitmaps which do not resize well at all and use an excess of memory. And that's a lot! I learned they do upload nicely as PNG files and as transparencies and all that is fine and wonderful. *buffs nails on shirt* Oh wait, I'm not wearing a shirt, damn, I just buffed my nails on my chest skin. Wow. That really shines 'em up too.

Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar §100-§103

Hieroglyphics conveying the concepts of; entire, complete and whole, someone, anyone, and no one, everyone and everybody, each one and each, everything and anything.

Two items noted in these sections. 1) The word for "navy" in the phrase "the entire navy" makes sense as translated but it's one of those words that is unconfirmed anywhere else in the text that I can find so far. I looked under English for navy, fleet, flotilla, boats, ships, rowers, etc, their transliterations, and their signs. I also checked other sources including the vast and often wrong Budge.

2) The phrase "not a heart is to a man," or "no one has has a heart," made me laugh. To Egyptians the heart was the seat of intelligence, the brain just a bunch of useless glop. The brain was discarded during mummification. So this phrase doesn't mean an absence of sympathy among some group of people but rather an absence of common sense. Whoever wrote the phrase is calling everybody stupid and that's a sentiment that resonates amusingly across the centuries.

Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar §96-§99

The emphatic and the emphasized adjective, comparative and superlative, equivalents of English adjectives, the word other, one to another, many, few, and a little. With a dash of additional vocabulary slipped in, just enough to make ya go, "whuuut?"

Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar §93-§95

Amenemhet ex. VII, Gardiner

Funerary wishes from a Theban noble's tomb Dyn. XVIII, as written in JSesh, transcribed in Text Edit, screen grabbed, layered in Photoshop.

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