270 Egyptian Hieroglyph Exhibition by The British Museum Journey through the Afterlife Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

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Egyptian Hieroglyph Exhibition 
by The British Museum
Journey through the Afterlife Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead


TANAKA Akio                                     


The British Museum has exhibited The ancient Egypt at Tokyo, titled Journey through the Afterlife Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. The exhibition is excellent, especially total length 37 meters' Greenfield Papyrus is the highlight of the exhibit.

I feel over again that the letters on the papyrus is almost everlasting and my usual thought that the letters are superior than the spoken language which is thought important by Ferdinand Saussure.

Of course I have respected Saussure so much and have read COURS DE LINGUISTIQUE GENERALE time to time. But the Occidental linguistics has not enough tradition on the ideogram as usual at Chinese characters.

Japan has also succeeded the Chinese tradition and culture. So we have much felt the importance on characters and letters. Each ideogram has its unique molding technique and coinage ability. I have very satisfied with hieroglyph's figures comparison to Chinese characters.


Also refer to the next.
On Time Property Inherent in Characters / 2003
Prague Theory / 2004


Tokyo 
12 September 2012 
Sekinan Research Field of Language