JSesh News
Our colleagues at the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptia are definitly very active regarding open data. They have published a lot of interesting ressources :
Our colleagues of the Open Richly Annotated Egyptian Corpus have created two meta-search engines.
A followup to my old post about deep learning...
An egyptological coverage of my work has been published in Lingua Aegyptia, with full details. I still intend to write something more computer-science oriented, only it always moves to the bottom of my todo list.
Then I have been happy to fi...
An Egyptian colleague, Hany ZARIF, has been kind enough to send me a translation of JSesh menus in Arabic. I intend to integrate them in the main version of JSesh. I will probably first propose a specific Arabic version of JSesh. The reason is that it's not sufficient to change the texts : the layou...
The JSesh text library has been extended with a number of new texts, provided by Mustafa Bilgin and Émil Joubert.
- A full rendering of the Prisse Papyrus, with the teachings of Geminikai (or Kagemni, whatever rendering you prefer), and Ptahotep, typed by Émil Joubert for the online edition of ...
M. Pim Rietbroek, from Brill has kindly notified me that their font now supported the A7BD code for yod. Thanks a lot !
I have edited and updated the corresponding pages of the JSesh website accordingly.
There is a large ongoing project about extending the capabilities and scope of the current Unicode representation of hieroglyphs, which involves many people, both egyptologists and IT specialists.
Mark-Jan Nederhof, the creator of the Revised Encoding Scheme, is very much involve in this projec...
As I was reading Pierre Tallet and Mark Lehner's book on their recent discoveries, Les papyrus de la mer rouge, I decided to encode for the JSesh libraries the text of a small stela in Serabit el-Khadim, for an official called Sobekḥerḥeb. You can find a nice photo of it p. 122 of Valbelle, Bonnet...
Sign E240 E240 is one of those weird old-kingdom signs which puzzle the reader. While looking at one of Ḥsy-rꜥ beautiful panels, I decided to write a short notice about it for JSesh sign information list.
The beginning is a bit pessimistic :
Unsure value and reading, Dilwyn Jones (o.c.) p...
It might be important to be able to compare signs from a JSesh version to another. Starting with JSesh 7.5.5, I have decided to publish a pdf document to that purpose. The document can be found on Zenodo at 
It's a plain list, without any comment ; the sole purpose is to display the way a certain...