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Signs by Pr. J.-A. Roberson

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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.

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A collection of rḫyt signs by Dr. Ken Griffin

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Dr. Ken Griffin, Curator, at the The Egypt Centre of Swansea University has ben so kind as to share with the JSesh community a collection of glyphs he has drawn for his PHD thesis on the rḫyt-people in egyptian religion1. The collection is available here.

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JSesh and the « maison de l'Égypte »

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...

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JSesh and the Grand Egyptian Museum

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It seems that JSesh has the honour of seeing some of its signs used to adorn the facade of the Grand Egyptian Museum :-)

The facade of the GEM

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...

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Upgrading JSesh without Headaches

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...

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Italian translation of the documentation

Leo Gentilini has kindly written an italian translation of the JSesh Documentation

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Return of the Vengeance of the Mummy Curse II

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A close up of the coffin

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... 🤔

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E1 sign

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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...

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JSesh 7.9 is available!

JSesh 7.9 is now available for download!

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New texts in the JSesh library

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M. Nico Pollone has kindly sent to me quite a few texts to be added to the JSesh library. They will be part of the next JSesh release. But meanwhile you can find them in the MDCText github archive.

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