JSesh News
JSesh 7.11 is out. Check the release page for details.
It contains mostly a few new signs, and above all new texts.
Pr. Joshua Aaron Roberson, from the University of Memphis, has kindly shared with the JSesh community a collection with some of the glyphs he has created mainly for his book A Lexicon of Ancient Egyptian Cryptography of the New Kingdom1, and also his work on the Book of the Earth.
The Cité internationale in Paris is a campus dedicated to housing students from all over the world. It's composed of residences for various countries or regions. Some of those are remarkable buildings.
The maison de l'Égypte was built by architect Waleed Arafa in 2023, and its facade is deco...
It seems that JSesh has the honour of seeing some of its signs used to adorn the facade of the Grand Egyptian Museum :-)
Look in particular at the lion protome F4 F4, which follows a drawing by M. Serge Thomas and at G17 owl G17, which follows a drawing I made from a si...
So, there is a brand new JSesh version... You would like to use it, but you are in the middle of the writting your PHD dissertation. What if this new version changes the shape of some signs? It will be weird, as part of your texts1 would use the old shape, the rest would use the new shape, and you...
Leo Gentilini has kindly written an italian translation of the JSesh Documentation
JSesh was used to decorate the coffin of Princess “Ahmanet” in the 2017 film The Mummy starring Sofia Boutella and Tom Cruise.
The coffin can be found in the Turin Museum... 🤔
In my enthusiasm for fixing fonts for JSesh 7.9, I made a choice which is perhaps a bit too hasty, palaeographically speaking.
The E1 sign is a bit problematic in Gardiner fonts. There should probably be two different signs; one is the bull, kꜣ; the other is cattle (mnmn.t, ꞽḥw). In hieroglyph...
JSesh 7.9 is now available for download!