This is a handy, one-volume dictionary of 5,400 carefully selected words likely to be encountered by both students and advanced scholars in the course of their regular work. Each entry consists of the most common hieroglyphic form of the word, accompanied by its transliteration, translation, references to texts where it occurs, its less usual hieroglyphic variants, and phrases in which it is used. The entire book is hand-transcribed by Faulkner in his clear and elegant hieroglyphic hand.