Egyptian Reading Book for Beginners Author:E. a. Wallis Budge 1896. This work is a series of historical, funereal, moral, religious and mythological texts printed in hieroglyphic characters together with a transliteration and a complete vocabulary. Of the twenty Egyptian texts printed in this book, nine are taken from monuments inscribed in the hieroglyphic character, and eleven are transcripts into hierog... more »lyphics from hieratic texts.« less