The most important changes in the new version are: Conversion of the system to ID-based URLs; Display of additional text labels (e.g., P. Ramesseum 7 for P. London BM EA 10760); Expansion of character codes to include variants (e.g., Aa17 and Aa18); New search filter for graphemes based on 453 keywords; New search filter according to dating criteria for dates and texts. We wish you every success in trying it out.
A selection of the most significant hieratic visitor texts in Tombs N13.1 and M12.3 in Assiut were included in the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae by Stefan R. Lange and Peter Dils based on the edition by Ursula Verhoeven 2025 and are now available online. There are 18 literary and 24 non-literary texts. We would like to thank everyone involved for their successful cooperation.
The new series “Beiträge zu Altägyptischen Kursivschriften” (BAKU) opens with a paleography of over 200 sources from the book Kemyt. The hardcover edition with 711 pages costs €70 from Propylaeum, and the PDF can be downloaded free of charge. The international peer-reviewed series is open to relevant work from the community; paleographic data can also be included in AKU-PAL.
The two-volume edition published by Harrassowitz at the end of 2020 is now available online via the publisher. The publication contains 156 mostly hieratic visitor inscriptions, teachings and songs of the New Kingdom (U. Verhoeven with the collaboration of S. A. Gülden), drawings of the New Kingdom (E. Gervers) and dipinti from the Islamic period (Y. Ahmed-Mohamed.
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Mainz Academy in 2024, U. Verhoeven recalls the appointment of Academy member Wolja Erichsen in 1949, who founded the “Demotische Namenbuch” as early as 1950. This was followed by the “Demotische Textdatenbank” project and the current AKU project. The article published on 23.09.2024 on the website of the Mainz Academy is available now as a blog post on Hieratisch AKUell.
At the Mainz Open Space Workshop on ‘Unveiling Egyptian Handwriting: Digital Approaches to Palaeographic Analysis’, a stimulating exchange on various IT issues took place. A report..
