Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Department of Archaeology

Overview

• Digital learning grammars and vocabulary trainiers
• Character sets (egyptological transliterations)
• Dictionaries
• Libraries in Berlin and bibliographies
• Bibliography programs

Digital learning grammars

• D.A. Werning, Digitale Einführung in die hieroglyphisch-ägyptische Schrift und Sprache
• Vokabeltrainer

Character sets

Egyptoligical transliterations

In Unicode

• Overview Unicode code points and Unicode fonts
  [new] See https://aaew.bbaw.de/egyptological-unicode-fonts

Unicode keyboards

Keyman keyboards (Windows, MacOS, Linux)

•  [new] See https://aaew.bbaw.de/egyptological-transliteration-keyboard
  • MdC2Unicode 
  • AAEW

Windows, System-Tastatur-Layouts

Note: The keyboard layouts expand your system with an additional, language-specific keyboard layout (Windows: Ägyptologische Umschrift - Deutsch; MacOS: EGYDW-DE), which appears in the same place as other language-specific keyboard layouts such as English, Arabic, or Hebrew. Help and informotion on this topic: Windows Vista/7 http://windows.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-vista/The-Language-bar-overview

• Unicode-Tastaturlayout EGYDW-DE = Ägyptologische Umschrift - Deutsch (Daniel A. Werning, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE), angelehnt an die traditionelle Tastaturbelegung von Manuel de Codage / Transliteration und Umschrift_TTn, aktuell: v3.3, 2018, German keyboard
  [neu: v3.3: small Yod based on 'i' (not on 'ı'); v3.2: Klammern korrigiert; v3.1: Ain und Alif nicht mehr als Großbuchstaben-Kodierung, typographische spitze Klammern]
  • MS Keyboard Layout Installationsdatei [aktualisiert, 5.7.2018]
  • Layout-Übersicht (PDF)

MacOS, Ukulele keyboard layouts

• Unicode-Tastaturlayout BBAW-BTS (Eliese-Sophia Lincke assisted by Simon D. Schweitzer, CC-BY-SA), based on the keyboard layout of the TLA project (BBAW)
  • MacOS (German keyboard, v01.2, April 2020)
    • Download Ukulele layout
    • Layout overview (PDF)
• Unicode keyboard layouts EGYDW-DE (Daniel A. Werning, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE), inspired by traditional keyboard layout of the Manuel de Codage / Transliteration und Umschrift_TTn, latest version: v3.3, 2018, German keyboard only
  [new: v3.3: small Yod based on 'i' (not on 'ı'); v3.2: codepoints of brackets corrected; v3.1: Ain and Alif not capitals by default, pointing brackets]
  
  • Download Ukulele layout
  • Layout overview (PDF)

(Outdated – not recommended:) Traditional fonts (not Unicode)

• Sign placement on the keyboard for different transliteration systems (Berlin School, Tuebingen School).
• TTF Umschrift_TTn (v3.0 ; 8/2007) by Prof. Dr. Friedrich Junge / Lingua Aegyptia.
• TTF Transliteration (v2.1) from the Centre for Computer-aided Egyptological Research.

Coptic

In Unicode

• TTF Antinoou (with keyboard layouts)

(Outdated – not recommended:) Traditional fonts (not Unicode)

• TTF Coptic (with keyboard layout)
• TTF CS Copto Manuscript [alternatively: download w/o exe] (Keyboard layout)

Wörterbücher

Dictionaries for the (Ancient-)Egyptian Language (online resources)

• Egyptian Dictionary of Berlin, from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities - Ancient Egyptian Dictionary:
  • Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (digital text corpus + older digital paper archive)
  • Digital paper archive
  • Online version of the print Dictionary of the Egyptian Language by Erman & Grapow
• The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
   

Bibliotheken in Berlin und Bibliographien

Libraries in Berlin
KOBV: Kooperativer Bibliotheksverbund Berlin-Brandenburg

Access to the catalogues of Berlin libraries:

• Primus: search portal at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Primo: Search portal at Freien Universität Berlin (Collection of the seminar for Egyptology)
• OPAC StaBiKat: Staatbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
• OPAC SMB/SMPK: Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (especially the Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection; acquisitions starting in 2003)
• OPAC BBAW: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
• ZDB-Katalog: Catalogue of periodical collections at German libraries

Tip: Set up a list of your resources in KOBV.
 

Digitalised literature

• Digitalised Egyptological Print Literature and WWW publications
• eJournals 
  - BiOr starting with volume 54 (1997)
  - JSTOR Archive:
       - JEA until 90 (2004)
  - RdÉ starting with volume 46 (1995)
  - OLZ starting with 103 (2008)
  - ZÄS (complete).
• Many further links: Propylaeum - Virtuelle Fachbibliothek München/Heidelberg
• Universität Bergen, Bibliothek von Mohamed Salih zum Sudan, older literature is partially digitalised

Literature databases

• OEB: Online Egyptological Bibliography (formerly AEB/Annual Egyptological Bibliography) [Access from the HU Network]
• Literature database of the Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie at Universität Münster
• Aigyptos-literature database Egyptology (is no longer maintained, contents are integrated into the OEB)

Bibliographie-Programme

with HU campus license included registered students

• Citavi, only for Windows (!)
  (Download and license with HU email)
• EndNote, Windows/MacOS; Apple Pages/MS Word/OpenOffice
  (HU Software Download Center with HU email account)