JSesh News

New texts available

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I have recently received a JSesh rendering of three interesting texts typed by Tariq Hanafi Ahmed:

  • O. DM 1057 (an very interesting love spell);
  • O. Náprstek Museum P 2027 (lively letter about family problems and request for food);
  • O. P. Leiden I 353 (caption to an amuletic text).

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An OCR for Hieroglyphs

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Some resources for those among you who are not afraid of code:

Mark-Jan Nederhof has created a new OCR software for hieroglyphs. It's a research project, so you need to be prepared to face python code, but you can download it at https://github.com/nederhof/hocr.

He has already created another...

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A Unicode 12 model font

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The team working on hieroglyphs and unicode is working hard, and Andrew Glass, who is a specialist of OpenTypes, has produced a very nice font which can handle the new Unicode operators.

You will find it in Andrew Glass's font tools project.

If you want the font, you can download it from this...

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Old Kingdom signs by Serge Thomas

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A few years ago, we were asked to produce a number of signs, mainly from the Old Kingdom.

M. Serge P. Thomas (mostly) and Serge Rosmorduc (for a small part) have therefore produced versions of these signs. Furthermore, in addition to those, M. Thomas has sent a set of interesting revisions of sign...

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Resources from the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (Glyphs and texts)

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Our colleagues at the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptia are definitly very active regarding open data. They have published a lot of interesting ressources :

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A meta-search engine

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Our colleagues of the Open Richly Annotated Egyptian Corpus have created two meta-search engines.

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New texts!

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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 ...

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News about Brill font

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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.

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Sinuhe

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M. Kaan Eraslan, currently doctoral student in the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, has kindly sent me a version of Sinuhe for inclusion in the JSesh library.

Thanks a lot for this welcome addition !

It will be included in the next versions of JSesh, but meanwhile I give you a link to it.

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Revised revised pack translit...

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ok, there was a small problem in three of the fonts of the "pack translit". It's solved now, so, if the yod gave bad result with Word you can download the new version. It should be ok.

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