%0 Book Section
%9 OS CH : Chapitres d'ouvrages scientifiques
%A Graff, Gwenola
%T Predynastic Egyptian iconography : contributions and relations with the hieroglyphic system's origin
%B Non-scribal communication media in the Bronze Age Aegean and surrounding areas : the semantics of a-literate and proto-literate media (seals, potmarks, mason's marks, seal-impressed pottery, ideograms and logograms, and related systems)
%C Florence
%D 2017
%E Jasink, A.M.
%E Weingarten, J.
%E Ferrara, S.
%L fdi:010087813
%G ENG
%I Firenze University Press
%@ 978-88-6453-636-1 
%K EGYPTE
%K NIL VALLEE ; ABYDOS ; UMM EL QAAB ; MATMAR ; HIERAKONPOLIS
%N 9
%P 221-232
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010087813
%> https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2023-08/010087813.pdf
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Roots of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing system can be found during the 4th millennium, in the iconography. Iconography seems to contribute to the invention of writing at the end of the Naqadan culture. Different types of iconographic supports are included in this contribution: Decorated Ware, 'powerfacts' (like palettes, maceheads,combs, knife handles), potmarks and ink inscriptions. In the Egyptian context, images maintain a close relationship with writing signs and the boundaries between both are tenuous. In their monumental form, called 'medou netcher' in Egyptian tongue, that is to say 'divine words', the hieroglyphs never lose their iconographic character and their iconicity. In this particular context, this article would explore how and how far the iconography of the 4th millennium contributes and prepares the emergence of writing. And why they are not themselves writing
%S Periploi : Collana di Studi Egei e Ciprioti
%$ 112ARCHEO