I have made available to the public on skydrive live. com both volumns of Budge's Hieroglyphic Dictionary. (There is no visible notice of copyright - the stated date is 1920.)
You will also need WinZip & Adobe Reader 9 installed on your computer. A_DICTIONARY v1.zip file is 36.7 MB (38,552,694 bytes) - Hieroglyphic dictionary vol. 1 A_DICTIONARY v2.zip file is 47.5 MB (49,872,715 bytes) - Hieroglyphic dictionary vol. 2
a) download each file b) extract each file with WinZip c) the extracted PDF file is the dictionary d) view dictionary with Adobe Reader
This dictionary is a must-have for any serious student of Ancient Egypt. Posts: 3344 | From: Berkeley | Registered: Oct 2003
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I've a question: Is Wallis Budge a credible historian?
Thanks in advance
Question...
If I made available Noah Webster's dictionary on the Internet, would you then ask "Is Noah Webster a credible historian?" You may as well have asked "How often did Budge go to the bathroom?" !!
Wallis Budge was, like Noah Webster, a lexicographer (the art or craft of compiling, writing and editing dictionaries). He was paid by the British Museum for 30 years to indulge his hobby - collecting vast amounts of cuneiform tablets, Egyptian papyri, and Greek, Coptic, Arabic, Syriac, and Ethiopic manuscripts. He could read and understand these texts as well!
The results, for posterity, is his exhaustive dictionary, which is without peer...
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Thanks! was he (Budge) then a credible Egyptologist? I just want know whether he is credible or not when speaking on Libyans.
The term 'credible Egyptologist' is in fact an oxymoron...
But you shouldn't access any information without using your own critical thought.
Example:
Herodotus was credible on most things, mostly of which he himself observed, but incredulous on things which were hearsay, or speculation:
a) The Egyptians were black-skinned and had woolly hair. - an obvious personal observation.
b) The color of a Black man's semen was also black. - an obvious and incredulous speculation.
Thus, on whether or not Budge is credible when speaking of Libyans, it would depend entirely on what particular thing he wrote regarding the Libyans ( he obviously got the name of the country correct. )...
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