I think you’re right: Coptic via Champollion, but even then, it can give us only hints about the ancient Egyptian pronunciation. A lot can happen in four thousand years.
My understanding of Demotic was that it’s a cursive form of hieroglyphic, not a fundamentally different script. A quick look at a transliteration table shows letters for aleph, yod,
waw, and ‘e’. I don’t think they wrote Ra down in Greek during the Ptolemaic era either. I’m not an Egyptologist, though.
This is what memes are for…
Most Excellent
I got to see SRV about 2 months before he died. It was a really good show, but a really weird double bill with Joe Cocker. SRV was him and a very small band - I think just a couple of other people. Joe Cocker had a huge stage full of dancing girls and horn sections and so much going on. It was 2, 2, 2 concerts in one. But it was just so dissonant. I’m glad I got to see him live, though.
Also… I want to meet the first person who figured out how to make a musical instrument… whether a drum or a flute or something else. How did they get to the point of figuring it out and making it a reality.
YESSSSSS!!!
I’m particularly curious about whoever invented string instruments, but I’d do time travel for any of the inventions. Yes, even bagpipes.
I saw him in the first half of ‘86, supported by the Fabulous Thunderbirds. The encore was Stevie and Jimmie playing “Scuttle Buttin’” on the same twin-neck Strat, swapping solos (and necks). Amazing.
I want to know that Ernest Shepard saw that painting
Percussion was the first. Banging two rocks together.
Immediately next: yodelling.
yes. yodeling when one smashes one’s finger between those “musical” rocks!
It’s hard to know where to go.
Another thing I’d time travel to see in person…
