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Digital Egyptology
Date: Thursday, June 1, 2017, 17h00-18h15 (CEST time)
Session coordinator: Franziska Naether (University of Leipzig)
YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnT6So6jfr0
This session will give an introduction to a selection of useful digital tools in Egyptology and Papyrology. The focus lies on written sources in Egyptian (Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic) and the reproduction of script.
- Conventions in Ancient Studies and Archaeology: IANUS and ADS
- A short overview of Egyptian Scripts with special emphasis on Demotic
- Hieroglyphs in Unicode: status quaestionis
- How to write Hieroglyphs
- How to find the sources
- The Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae
- Tom Gheldof: "Trismegistos. Identifying and aggregating metadata of Ancient World texts",
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201617 - Monica Berti, Julia Jushaninowa, Franziska Naether, Giuseppe G. A. Celano, Polina Yordanova: "The Digital Rosetta Stone: textual alignment and linguistic annotation",
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201522
(all contributions are published in Monica Berti, Franziska Naether (eds.): Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age. Egyptology, Papyrology and beyond. Proceedings of a conference and workshop in Leipzig, November 4-6, 2015, Leipzig 2016.)
- Simon Schweitzer: "The text encoding software of the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae",
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201500 - Simone Gerhards, Simon Schweitzer: "Auf dem Weg zu einem TEI-Austauschformat für ägyptisch-koptische Texte",
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201602 - So Miyagawa: "An intuitive unicode input method for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing applying the input technology of the Japanese writing system",
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-201695 - BOWMAN, A., Egypt after the Pharaohs, London 1986
- DEPAUW, M., A Companion to Demotic Studies, Papyrologica Bruxellensia 28, Bruxelles 1997
Essay not necessary
Find all the Ptolemaic saterdotal decrees which bear the prase ḥ(n)‘ sḫn nfr (Hieroglyphic, Betacode Hna sxn nfr) / irm pȝ sḫn nfr (Demotic, Betacode pA sxn nfr) / ἀγαθὴ τύχη (Greek) and variants thereof!
- Archaeological Data Service (English, UK/USA)
- IANUS Data Service (German, Germany); IT-Empfehlungen
- Course on Digital Egyptology (course material, in German)
- Old Demotic dictionary: ERICHSEN, W., Demotisches Glossar, Kopenhagen 1954 PDF
- New Demotic dictionary: JOHNSON, J.H. (ed.), Chicago Demotic Dictionary (CDD)
- Demotic Grammar: JOHNSON, J.H., The Demotic Verbal System, SAOC 38, Chicago 1976; Second Printing with Corrections 2004
- Demotic Textbook: JOHNSON, J.H., Thus wrote cOnchsheshonqy. An Introductory Grammar of Demotic, SAOC 45, Chicago 1991(2), 3rd revised edition, Chicago 2000
- International Conference of Demotic Studies: ICDS, in September in Leipzig
- Greek Loanwords in Egyptian DDGLC Project
- Font IFAO Grec Unicode
- Unicode research group for Hieroglyphs; ongoing development
- JSesh, open source Hieroglyphic editor
- Course material (in German) (Kursbaustein 5)
- Trismegistos
- Papyrological Navigator
- Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (Login required)
- Papyrus Ebers
- Demotische Wortliste