In Search Of Contextualization For Abstractions In A Pictographic Book Of Abraham

[DragonLancer]

http://egyptianalphabetandgrammar.blogspot.com/2015/02/in-search-of-contextualization-for.html

 

As I have shown in this post, I am in search of the equivalent of determinatives in a pictographic Book of Abraham context in the Sensen Document.

I thought I would throw this out there to see if anybody might have any ideas about how to find such a thing if they exist.

 

As I noted previously, I had assumed that perhaps the Sensen Papyrus was entirely abstract in a pictographic usage, and that contextualization would require an outside key.  It is nice that we have that kind of key in the form of the Kirtland Egyptian Papers, and that these can be reverse-engineered to a degree.

 

However, assuming Ryan Larsen ("Mormon Puzzle Pieces") may be right about these characters in the Sensen Document starting out as the Book of Abraham, and coming down to us in a restructured form as the Sensen Document, I think it is possible that the Egyptians still may have known that these characters have a pictographic intent as the Book of Abraham.  If so, could they have left contextualization characters in the papyrus that give Abrahamic context?  If so, they are not regular Egyptian textual determinative characters, because Joseph Smith interpreted those pictographically just like the regular textual characters were interpreted pictographically.

 

Anyhow, I started down this road recently because I think it is possible that the Egyptians themselves may have encoded a determinative contextualization type of thing in the document if they themselves thought of it as the Book of Abraham even after its restructuring.  Does anyone have any ideas about how we could go forward to try to find contextualization characters?  Could the characters in the columns possibly have something to do with this?  Although, the characters in the columns are also interpreted pictographically.

 

Ed