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.
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.
Demotisch – Hieratisch – Kursivhieroglyphen: Forschungskontinuität in Mainz seit Gründung der Akademie
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 will soon be available 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..
„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.
