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Zurich Open Repository and Archive University of Zurich Main Library Strickhofstrasse 39 CH-8057 Zurich www.zora.uzh.ch

Year: 1995

From Icon to Metaphor: Studies in the Semiotics of the Hieroglyphs Goldwasser, Orly

Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-157995 Monograph Published Version Originally published at: Goldwasser, Orly (1995). From Icon to Metaphor: Studies in the Semiotics of the Hieroglyphs. Fribourg, Switzerland / Göttingen, Germany: University Press / Vandenhoeck Ruprecht.

ORBIS BIBLICUS ET ORIENTALIS Published by Othmar Keel and Christoph Uehlinger on behalf of the Biblical Institute of the University of Fribourg Switzerland, the Egyptological Seminar of the University of Basel, the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and Languages of the University of Berne, and the Swiss Society for Ancient Near Eastern Studies

TheAuthor: Orly Goldwasser was born in Tel-Aviv, Israel. She studied Egyptology and Archaeology at Tel-Aviv University and Egyptology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her Ph. D. thesis was entitled «The Verbal System in Literary Letters of the 19th Dynasty» and was completed in 1987. She has published articles on Late-Egyptian grammar and on the study of registers of language in literary Late Egyptian. In addition, she has published hieratic ostraca and other Egyptian artifacts that were found in Israel. She is currently a lecturer in the Department of Egyptology at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

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