![]() ![]() The classication is used in dictionaries such as Middle Egyptian Dictionary. The reason I'm mentioning this: Unicode transcription is fairly recent, and most transcribed texts will still be in JSesh (.gly) format, which uses a classification notation system called Manuel De Codage (MDC). There's also Hieroglyphic texts from Egyptian stelae, etcĪs for transcribed texts, consider that there were mainly two word processors used in the last decades to transcribe hieroglyphs: JSesh and Winglyph (the latter seems to be discontinued). The largest collection I know of is the Digitized Collections of Ancient Egyptian Source Texts They even made fun of the fact Wallis Budge's books are still in print in the old movie Stargate!!! But there are tons of excellent resources to study it.Īnd forget anything written by Wallis Budge. Egyptian is a tough language, very tough, its writing system a pain. Saint Andrew Corpus the text in hieroglyphs with the transliteration and the traduction, best way to learnĪs you can see, resources are PLENTY.Annoting Egyptian texts Very nice resource with photos and the text in font translation (easier to read).Projet Rosette, a French site, but you do not care, it is written in English with plenty of texts.The Pyramid text online That is the tomb of Unis (they spelled Unas due to the Egyptian i which is often spelled a), with plenty of photos, and English translation.Any of Wallis Budge's books, his one on hieroglyphs or his old translations. That book is miserably good.įriendly warning: While they are still widely used by internauts, FORGET Wallis Budge books. Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs One of the best book I ever read on any language.How to read Egyptian Hieroglyphs, a step by step guide A simple approach but help if you do not have a teacher next to you.Also, notice you can learn with them Classical Egyptian, with tackling a little bit from your side, old Kingdom stuff, but Ptolemaic writing will be barely accessible, the one in hieroglyphics, I mean here. NB: The texts and resources I am quoting here and purely in hieroglyphics, you will not find here hieratic (the "cursive form" of hieroglyphs) or demotic. ![]() The text database capabilities of tksesh will be added to JSesh in the future, but I thought it would be better to provide a nice editor/displayer first, in order to involve people.Here is a compilation of various resources to learn ancient classical Egyptian (aka Middle Egyptian) and a selection of various corpus to read. JSesh, contrarily to tksesh, is not primarily a text database. WMF files can be read by almost all word processors. Metafiles are vector images, which means they are well suited for printing. Among the possible outputs, one must note the WMF (windows metafiles output). It can print a file, or save it in various interesting graphic formats : pdf, jpg, or even as set of html files. JSesh has a number of output capabilities. Some manuel de codage features are not available yet through the menus, but you have always the possibility of writing the code directly. JSesh also allows you to edit hieroglyphic texts, either by typing manuel de codage codes, or by a more intuitive menu system. JSesh will propose a number of extensions. ![]() It's a bit old by now, and there are various suggestions to improve it (or replace it). JSesh texts can be copied and pasted into other softwares (as MS/Word or Openoffice). It's used in many professional egyptological publications: the IFAO, the JARCE, and all kinds of books. The manuel de codage is a standard which was created in 1984 for describing hieroglyphic texts in ASCII. JSesh is a word processor, for ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts. Macscribe compatibility has not been tested, and is probably not full. JSesh covers most of the Manuel de Codage and can read files coming from a number of other softwares, as Winglyph and Tksesh. As a user, you are probably more interested in JSesh editing and printing capabilities. You are currently using JSesh, which is both an editor for hieroglyphic texts and a toolset for manipulating hieroglyphic texts in Java. ![]()
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