Orly Goldwasser

Orly Goldwasser is an Israeli Egyptologist . She received her BA from Tel Aviv University , MA and PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . She holds the Chair of Egyptology in Jerusalem and Professor hc at the University of Göttingen . She was visiting professor at the University of Göttingen, at Harvard University and at the Collège de France .

Her main research interests are the semiotics of 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 hieroglyphic writing.

Her main publications include:

• From Icon to Metaphor, Studies in the Semiotics of the Hieroglyphic Script. (= Orbis biblicus et orientalis. (OBO) Vol. 142). University Press, Friborg (Switzerland) 1995; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1995.
• Prophets, Lovers and Giraffes: Wor (l) d Classification in Ancient Egypt (= Göttinger Orientforschungen. (GOF) IV. Series Egypt. Vol. 38, 3). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2002, ISBN 978-3-447-04590-2 .
• Canaanites Reading Hieroglyphs. Horus is Hathor? - The Invention of the Alphabet in Sinai. (= Egypt and Levante. Vol. 16) Vienna 2006, pp. 121–160 ( full text as PDF ).

Web links

• Egyptology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Orly Goldwasser. ( Memento from July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Orly Goldwasser . On: pluto.huji.ac.il ; accessed on June 16, 2014.