More word play
Posted in word of the week on December 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »
In relation to my previous post about the Egyptian polyseme šdi which means both ‘to suckle’ and ‘to educate’, I thought I’d look at another polyseme which ended up being extremely influential in Egyptian tomb decoration. And which is an excellent excuse to examine some of my favourite masterpieces of Egyptian art, the tomb paintings […]
