Dictionary of Middle Egyptian
I have updated the Pyramid Texts Online Tools page with the addition of a useful Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. This dictionary was created by Paul Dickson as a result of his frustration with the existing dictionaries and their arrangement around the approximate sounds of the words instead of their spelling, as dictionaries are usually organised.
Unlike Faulkner’s dictionary, which gives the word hand-written in hieroglyphs, followed by the transliteration, and then the translation, in Dickson’s version the hieroglyphs are translated straight into Manual de Codage system, followed by the English translation, followed by the Gardiner codes. I personally find Paul Dickson’s Dictionary much easier to use for these reasons but also because it is organised based on the familiar Gardiner order of grouping signs, making it fast and easy to look up a word.
If you do download the dictionary be aware that it is 18.4 mb in size and is in PDF format.
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