2023
DOI: 10.22425/jul.2023.24.2.91
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The “Universal” Rebus Principle and Phonosemantic Compounding

John Kausch

Abstract: The general public views hieroglyphs as "picture-writing". Why does this view persist after Champollion showed that the key to reading hieroglyphs is phonetic? This article argues that this misinterpretation is a historical remnant of the transmission and reception of a single text, the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo. The content of Hieroglyphica is reinterpreted as a conflation of the rebus principle with Egyptian ideas of sound symbolism. The reception of this text in the late Renaissance created the idea of a u… Show more

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