The 1071 hieroglyphs from Unicode 5.2

These pages represent an attempt to gather information on the Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs from Unicode 5.2. The information is compiled into the following tables:

appearances and sources of signs
meaning and use of signs
encoding issues of signs
relations between signs
encoding of hieratic
relation to TSL

The above tables are compiled out of the following XML files:

code points in Unicode
formal names in Unicode
code points in EGPZ
mapping to TSL
mnemonics of signs
descriptions in English
meaning and use
relations between signs
encoding in RES
conversion from EGPZ to Unicode
identification of signs from Möller's Hieratische Paläographie
sources where signs are described
bibliography

A package with all source files, including Java code, XML schemas and XSLT stylesheets, is:

unicode.tar (approx. 2.4 MB)

Open questions

I would be grateful to anyone who can help me resolve a number of open questions.

Annotation

We offer guidelines for orthographic annotation of texts.

Acknowledgements

Serge Rosmorduc helped me identify over a dozen signs. More help was received from Angela McDonald. Elizabeth Fleming from the Griffith Institute was extremely helpful with locating occurrences of signs in the Topographical Bibliography. Carolyn Graves-Brown from Swansea University was extremely helpful with clarifying the meaning of sign O10c; the reading is due to Serge Rosmorduc. Jorke Grotenhuis contributed the links to the TSL.