The 29-page online article Hieratic was updated in June 2024, and the referenced signs are now linked with AKU-PAL, see: Verhoeven, Ursula, 2023, Hieratic. In Andréas Stauder and Willeke Wendrich (eds.), UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, Los Angeles. ISSN 2693-7425.
From April 11th to 13th, 2024, the Mainz Academy Project for Ancient Egyptian Cursive Scripts (AKU) organized the international conference „Ägyptologische ‚Binsen‘-Weisheiten V“ at the premises of the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz. The theme of the conferece was Manifestations, Developments, and Interdependencies in the Hieroglyphic-Hieratic Script System. Fifty colleagues were present on-site, while others participated online. In total, participants came from 17 different countries.
On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Mainz Academy, Ursula Verhoeven recalls the appointment of Academy member Wolja Erichsen in 1949, who founded the ‘Demotisches Namenbuch’ as early as 1950. This was followed by the ‘Demotic Text Database’ project and the current project on the palaeography of hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs (AKU).
The fourth conference volume of the series Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten on the topic 'Hieratic of the New Kingdom: Agents, Forms, and Functions' is now available online. The individual contributions are also available separately.
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..
„Unicode is not a font.“ This brief statement from the Unicode Consortium precisely describes the basic idea of the relationship between character encoding and visual representation, i.e. the font.
