Butic script

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The Butische script is a theoretical construction by the Egyptologist Wolfgang Helck , who first published his explanations in 1976 . Helck assumed that the Egyptian residents of the Nile Delta had their own dialect of script and language and that these cultural characteristics triggered recurring conflicts between Upper and Lower Egypt . The theory of the "Butian script" is no longer supported today, however, since more recent finds from Buto and Abydos show that the hieroglyphic script has always been written and read uniformly.

literature

  • Wolfgang Helck : Investigations on the thinite period (= Egyptological treatises. Volume 45). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02677-4 .
  • Ludwig David Morenz: Image letters and symbolic signs: the development of writing in the high culture of ancient Egypt. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-525-53062-5 , pp. 30-31.
  • Thomas Schneider: The 101 most important questions. Ancient Egypt. Beck, Frankfurt 2010, ISBN 3-406-59983-4 , pp. 113 & 114.