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ππ€πππ ππ An Introduction to Egyptian from Hieroglyphs to Coptic
Event Details
Speaker: Ulf Hermjakob, USC/ISI
Conference Rm Location: ISI-MDRΒ #689 in-person attendance will be permitted for USC/ISI faculty, staff, students only. Open to the public virtually via Zoom
Zoom Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/99633384352?pwd=SjY4TExuQ3ZmaTZHOW1HV21oTFJHdz09
Meeting ID: 996 3338 4352
Passcode: 393936
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Hosts: Jon May and Justin Cho
The Egyptian language, with its written history of more than 5,000 years, continues to fascinate people, especially with its hieroglyphs and its complex system of logograms, phonograms and determinatives. This introduction will focus on hieroglyphs, but also cover later scripts (Hieratic, Demotic, Coptic), the decryption of hieroglyphs 200 years ago, samples from Ancient Egyptian texts, and a few linguistically interesting tidbits.
The Getty Villa has two Egyptian exhibitions on offer, The Egyptian Book of the Dead (until January 29) and Sculpted Portraits from Ancient Egypt (opening January 24). The ISI CuteLabName (NLP) group will visit the Getty Villa on Saturday afternoon (Jan. 27).
Speaker Bio
Ulf is a senior research scientist and computational linguist in the Natural Language Group at ISI, working on a wide range of languages. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin.
Hosts: Jon May and Justin Cho
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