Authors:	Moezel, Kyra van der
Title:	On signs, lists and standardisation
Online publication date:	20-Apr-2020
Year of first publication:	2018
Language:	english
Abstract:	To make hieratic texts more accessible and readable, Egyptologists usually transcribe them into hieroglyphs. But to what extent are our hieroglyphic signs-lists and fonts actually appropriate to represent hieratic script? In the scientific analysis of hieratic texts, the experience is that hieroglyphic fonts often do not offer adequate font-types for the signs encountered. The question then arises whether we develop new font-types to add to the hieroglyphic repertoire for signs, which as hieroglyphs in fact do not exist, or whether, especially considering we live in a digital age, the time has come to analyze hieratic script in its own right and come up with a repertoire and font specifically fit it? How could or should such a repertoire and font be organized? Proposals for a reorganization of the hieroglyphic repertoire seem to have much in common with a structure for the hieratic repertoire AKU is currently developing. The paper presents work in progress, one year after the start of the AKU-Project.
DDC:	490 Andere Sprachen 490 Other languages
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 07 Geschichts- u. Kulturwissensch.
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-391
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-publ-598087
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Buchbeitrag
License:	In Copyright
Information on rights of use:	https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Citation:	Ägyptologische "Binsen"-Weisheiten III Gülden, Svenja A. Moezel, Kyra van der Verhoeven, Ursula
Pages or article number:	51 81
Publisher:	Franz Steiner Verlag
Publisher place:	Stuttgart
Issue date:	2018
Relations:	is Part of 10.25358/openscience-5178
Annotation:	Zweitveröffentlichung der Verlagsausgabe
Appears in collections:	JGU-Publikationen