Orly Goldwasser

Orly Goldwasser is an Israeli Egyptologist. She received her B. A. at the University of Tel Aviv, her M. A. and her Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is full professor of Egyptology in Jerusalem and Professor hc at the University of Göttingen. She was a visiting professor at the University of Göttingen, at Harvard University and at the Collège de France.

Her research focuses on the semiotics of the hieroglyphs, Egypt's relations to the eastern Mediterranean coast and literary images in Egyptian literature as well as the origin of the alphabet. She is the discoverer of the classification system in the hieroglyphic script.

Her major publications include:

  • From Icon to Metaphor, Studies in the Semiotics of the Hieroglyphic Script. Orbis biblicus et orientalis ( OBO ) 142, University Press, Fribourg ( Switzerland ) in 1995; Cambridge University Press, Göttingen 1995
  • Prophets, Lovers and Giraffes: Wor ( l) d Classification in Ancient Egypt Göttingen Orient research (GOF ) IV, series 38 Egypt, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2002
  • Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs. Horus is Hathor? - The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai. Egypt and the Levant 16, 2006, pp. 121-160 ( Full text as PDF)
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