Recent publications

The third volume of the series Hieratic Studies Online has been released: Tabitha Kraus, Standardisierung und Variation. Eine Analyse zur Graphetik der Zeichenkategorie [VOGEL] in den hieratischen Papyri Berlin P. 3022–5. http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-6615. ...

The second volume of the series Hieratic Studies Online has been released: Johannes Jüngling, Hieratische Aktenvermerke, covers 40 pages of annotation-like additions in hieratic administrative documents from the 5th to the 25th Dynasty. The open-access publication is available at http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-6202. ...

Part 2 of the "Updating Möller" series has been published on our project blog. The series provides a breakdown of the text designations in Georg Möller's hieratic palaeography. https://aku.hypotheses.org/412 ...

The latest volume in The Asyut Project series has been released. In this two-volume publication, Ursula Verhoeven, with the collaboration of Svenja A. Gülden, presents the rich texts left by ancient visitors in Tomb N13.1 (circa 2000 BC) on the Middle Egyptian necropolis hill of Assiut. The skillful drawings are made by Eva Gervers. The dipinti originate from the New Kingdom period (circa 1550-1100 BC) and reflect historical awareness, self-representation of the scribal elite, literary education, and scholastic training, as well as ancestor worship, veneration of local deities, and hopes for well-being and abundant offerings. Additionally, Youssef Ahmed-Mohamed examines the texts and drawings from the Islamic period, which reveal similar motifs among later tomb visitors. The work is now available from Harrassowitz Verlag. ...

The third conference volume in the series Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten is now available online. Gülden, S. A., Verhoeven, U. und van der Moezel, K. (eds), Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten III. Formen und Funktionen von Zeichenliste und Paläographie. Akten der internationalen und interdisziplinären Tagung in der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz im April 2016. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur in Mainz. Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Klasse. Einzelveröffentlichung, 15). URL: https://openscience.ub.uni-mainz.de/handle/20.500.12030/5182 ...

Ursula Verhoeven's contribution, "Georg Möller (1876–1921): Spuren und Wahrnehmungen", follows the traces of Georg Möller and outlines his academic career. The article appears in the Festschrift for Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert, "En détail - Philology and Archaeology in Discourse", published by De Gruyter. It can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110629705-057. ...

The Oxford Handbook of Egyptian Epigraphy and Palaeography features a contribution by Svenja A. Gülden, Celia Krause, and Ursula Verhoeven on "Digital Palaeography of Hieratic". The article can be purchased online with the DOI 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190604653.013.42. The handbook is edited by Vanessa Davies and Dimitri Laboury and published by Oxford University Press. ...

AKU continues blogging: What is hidden behind Cairo Frg. π? We reveal the secrets of the sigla in Georg Möller's hieratic palaeography, Volume 1 at aku.hypotheses.org/64. ...

The third international, and this time also interdisciplinary conference in the series Ägyptologische ‚Binsen‘-Weisheiten, with the theme "Forms and Functions of Sign List and Palaeography", dealt with methodological and content-related questions on character analysis and the edition of hieroglyphic and hieratic sources. The present volume includes 11 contributions on the literary culture of Ancient Egypt from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period as well as a detailed research report of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy project on the writing system of the Classical Maya. Now available from Franz Steiner Verlag. ...

The poster of the AKU project, designed for the 5th conference of the digital humanities in the German-speaking regions (DHd2018) at the University of Cologne, can now be viewed online. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1189371. The accompanying text has appeared in the book of abstracts. Even after the DHd2018 there are still reactions to our Posterslam – e. g. by Jürgen Hermes – TEXperimentTales or by Matthias Arnold and Christopher Nunn INFODITEX – Blog. ...