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Germany
Joined November 2016
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PNM is now Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom and early New Kingdom. In version 5, 13000 persons with their names & titles from the 18th Dynasty before Amenhotep IV are added to existing Middle Kingdom dataset (adding up to a total of 53198 persons) pnm.uni-mainz.de/info
Eine Initiative der kleinen Fächer gegen die Novellierung des Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetzes in Deutschland — der Verband der Ägyptologie bittet Kolleg*innen aus anderen Fächern um Unterstützung der Petition forms.gle/WKCCBe1122ksdsJT9
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Die Ägyptologie Mainz sucht Verstärkung! Zum 1.9. ist eine Stelle als Wiss. Mitarbeiter/in im Arbeitsbereich Ägyptologie unter der Leitung von Prof. Dr. Kathrin Gabler zu besetzten. Alle Informationen entnehmen Sie bitte der Ausschreibung.
( stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/H… ).
My last year's book Egyptian Name Scarabs from the 12th to the 15th Dynasty is now available in open access doi.org/10.13173/97834471204…
Tobias Konrad and I prepared a Bibliography of Egyptological databases and datasets to give an overview of publicly available databases in Egyptology(past and present).Description: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10691… Library: zotero.org/groups/4851156/ Corrections/additions highly appreciated
How do you choose a colour space for long-term archiving of digital photos? sRGB or Adobe RGB? Or something else? Lots of best practice tips for file formats & metadata, but almost none for the colour space (U.S. National Archives did recommend Adobe RGB 1998 for back in 2004).
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Transliteration still poses difficulties to database projects in #Egyptology. Unicode and legacy encoding, flavours of Unicode, diverging conventions complicate matching data across DBs. And DBs can’t natively sort transliteration alphabetically. We need dedicated libraries. 🧵
While matching names in my PNM DB with Anne Herzberg-Beiersdorf's Prosopographia Memphitica, I drafted a Python library github.com/ailintom/umschrif… to standardise translit strings, produce false-coded strings that are comparable, sortable and storable in DBs & exportable to Unicode.
Besides, custom keyboard layouts for Windows for entering Egyptian transliteration in Unicode were updated to support the new sign ï/Ï used in the Leiden Unified system, see pnm.uni-mainz.de/tools/unico…
The Transliteration to Unicode Converter was updated to support the 2023 version of Trlit_CG Times non-Unicode font with the new sign ï used in the Leiden Unified Transliteration (see OEB webpage). pnm.uni-mainz.de/tools/unico…
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A rather unexpected result of the magnificent @ICE2023Leiden, which finished yesterday, was an award for a poster we presented with @VBoschloos — all the more surprising as it was the first physical poster I've ever presented (@VBoschloos has more experience of this sort though)
PNM dataset now includes geographical coordinates for visualisations based on SPARQL endpoint pnm.uni-mainz.de/sparql
E.g.,one can put Middle Kingdom (white) and Second Intermediate Period (green) private-name scarabs on a map using QGIS and SPARQL-plugin SPARQLing Unicorn.
The latter tool is courtesy of @situxxx and @fthierygeo Here's a short example with links github.com/ailintom/persons-…
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An updated version of Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom (PNM) is online pnm.uni-mainz.de/info It features 1500 new attestations, with the number of persons now exceeding 40000.
I've also updated the Egyptological Museum Downloader to support new versions of Petrie and ISAC websites static.egyptology.ru/varia/m…
a bookmarklet downloading images of Egyptian(not only)artefacts from museum websites,a basic function that still requires many clicks on some websites
I've updated Egyptological Museum Search to reflect recent changes in several online museum collections. static.egyptology.ru/varia/m… Egyptological Museum Search is a PHP script aiming to streamline the search for inventory numbers of ancient Egyptian objects on museum websites.
My book on Egyptian name scarabs from the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period has just been published. Many thanks to everyone who has made this possible!
