Online resources

Web sites of general interest

1. Digital Egypt
   Introductory pages dedicated to Hieratic in a site more specifically dedicated to Egyptian civilization in general.
   
2. History of Egypt Podcast
   Dozens of podcasts by Dominic Perry devoted to ancient Egypt. Even though the main topic is the history of ancient Egypt, a number of podcasts in the sections “Mini Episodes” and “Middle Kingdom” are devoted to hieratic-language works in Egyptian literature. Each podcast is complemented by a bibliography.
   
3. Hieratic Studies Online
   Site of the academic series Hieratic Studies Online, University of Mainz, open access and dedicated to presenting research on all aspects of hieratic, from palaeography to the text editions. Only two issues were published between 2016 and 2021.
   

Institutions, centers for study and research

1. Book of the Dead of Ancient Egypt - Ägyptologie, Universität Bonn
   The site (in German only) offers the complete collation of all witnesses of the Book of the Dead from the end of the 17th Dynasty to the Roman Period. It is an iconographic collection of about 3,000 written and painted documents on papyrus, cloth, leather and wood. Statistical, bibliographic and iconographic information is provided for each "chapter."
   
2. AKU - Altägyptische Kursivschriften
   Digitale Paläographie und systematische Analyse des Hieratischen und der Kursivhieroglyphen.
   Site of the project by the University of Mainz on digital paleography and the analysis of hieratic and cursive hieroglyphics, rich in resources, links and with an updated and very rich blog.
   
3. Hieratische Paläographie DB
   Database on hieratic paleography based on the work of Möller, edited by Tokyo University.
   

Academic materials

1. Basic lessons in Hieratic
   Five paleographic lessons to begin, ed. by Stephen Fryer, self-taught expert. The lessons are divided into : 1. "alphabetic" signs; 2. most common determinatives; 3. most common bi- and triliterals; 4. ligatures; 5. numbers.
   
2. VAN HEEL, K.D., A Very Easy Crash Course in Abnormal Hieratic
   K. Donker van Heel, A Very Easy Crash Course in Abnormal Hieratic. Being a Step by Step Introduction to the Least Accessible of All Ancient Egyptian Scripts, Leiden 2013.
   
3. POE, W.C. The Writing of a Skillful Scribe: An Introduction to Hieratic Middle Egyptian through the Text of the Shipwrecked Sailor
   W.C. Poe, The Writing of a Skillful Scribe: An Introduction to Hieratic Middle Egyptian through the Text of the Shipwrecked Sailor, Sonoma 2008. PDF document downloadable from the website of the California State University.
   
4. VERHOEVEN VAN ELSBERGEN, U. Ägyptologische "Binsen"-Weisheiten I – II : neue Forschungen und Methoden der Hieratistik
   U. Verhoeven Van Elsbergen, Ägyptologische "Binsen"-Weisheiten I – II : neue Forschungen und Methoden der Hieratistik ; Akten zweier Tagungen in Mainz im April 2011 und März 2013, Stuttgart 2015. PDF document downloadable from the website of the University of Meinz.
   

Images

1. The Digital Library of Inscriptions and Calligraphies - Bibliotheca Alexandrina
   Galleries of images with brief (sometimes inaccurate) descriptive cards; inscriptions are organized by supports (architecture, textiles, jewelry, furniture, etc.) and not by writing system, but this is a good reason to browse through the galleries in search of Coptic, Demotic, hieratic and hieroglyphic inscriptions. Curated by the Library of Alexandria, which has become a center for digital humanities whose projects, however, do not always live up to expectations
   

Texts

1. MÖLLER G., Hieratische paläographie, Leipzig 1909-1936
   
   
2. VAN HEEL K.D., GOLVERDINGEN J., An Abnormal Hieratic Reading Book 1
   VAN HEEL K.D., GOLVERDINGEN J., An Abnormal Hieratic Reading Book. Fascicule I: Papyri from London, Brooklyn, Cairo and Leiden, Het Leids Papyrologisch Instituut, Leiden 2013. Online text edited by the Papyrological Institute of Leiden University

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3. VAN HEEL K.D., GOLVERDINGEN J., An Abnormal Hieratic Reading Book 2
   VAN HEEL K.D., GOLVERDINGEN J., An Abnormal Hieratic Reading Book. Fascicule II: Papyri from Paris, Het Leids Papyrologisch Instituut, Leiden 2013. Online text edited by the Papyrological Institute of Leiden University
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4. VAN HEEL K.D., GOLVERDINGEN J., An Abnormal Hieratic Reading Book 3
   VAN HEEL K.D., GOLVERDINGEN J., An Abnormal Hieratic Reading Book. Fascicule III: Papyri from Oxford, Turin, Vienna and Tablets from Egypt and Leiden, Het Leids Papyrologisch Instituut, Leiden 2014. Online text edited by the Papyrological Institute of Leiden University.
   
5. MÖLLER G., Hieratische Lesestücke für den akademischen Gebrauch
   MÖLLER G., Hieratische Lesestücke für den akademischen Gebrauch, Hirnrichs, Leipzig 1909: available in various formats on the Internet Archive.
   
6. The Papyrus Bremner-Rhind
   FAULKNER R.O., The Papyrus Bremner-Rhind (British Museum no. 10188), Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca 3, Bruxelles 1933
   
7. Papyrus Harris I
   ERICHSEN W., Papyrus Harris I. Hieroglyphische Transkription, Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca 5, Bruxelles 1933
   
8. Étude sur le conte du fellah plaideur
   SUYS É., Étude sur le conte du fellah plaideur, récit égyptien du Moyen-Empire, Analecta Orientalia 5, Roma 1933
   
9. Middle-Egyptian Stories
   BLACKMAN A.M., Middle-Egyptian Stories, Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca 2, Bruxelles 1932
   
10. Late-Egyptian Stories
    GARDINER A.H., Late-Egyptian Stories, Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca 1, Bruxelles, 1932
    
11. Wisdom of Ani
    SUYS É., La sagesse d'Ani. Texte, traduction et commentaire, Analecta Orientalia 11, Roma 1935
    
12. Late Ramesside Letters
    WENTE E.F., Late Ramesside Letters, SAOC 33, Chicago 1967
    
13. Late-Egyptian Miscellanies
    GARDINER A.H., Late-Egyptian Miscellanies, Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca 7, Bruxelles 1937
    
14. Ramses online – An Annotated Corpus of Late Egyptian
    Website containing a part of the annotated corpus of Neo-Egyptian created by the Ramses Project (University of Liège). The beta version includes 65,000 entries, the possibility to freely browse the corpus and to perform simple and advanced searches, annotated lemmas, writing systems and a grammatical analysis.
    
15. NAVILLE, E. Papyrus funéraires de la XXIe dynastie. Volume 1
    E. Naville, Papyrus funéraires de la XXIe dynastie. Le papyrus hiéroglyphique de Kamara, le papyrus hiératique de Nesikhonsou au Musée du Caire, Paris 1912. PDF document downloadable from the website of the Ancient World Digital Library, New York University.
    
16. NAVILLE, E. Papyrus funéraires de la XXIe dynastie. Volume 2
    E. Naville, Papyrus funéraires de la XXIe dynastie. Le papyrus hiératique de Katseshni au Musée du Caire, Paris 1914. PDF document downloadable from the website of the Ancient World Digital Library, New York University.
    

Fonts

1. There are no hieratic fonts: photographs of originals are used for publication; moreover, Hieratic has traditionally been published in Hieroglyphic transcription. A recent attempt to standardise was made by the editor of the site Egyptology Lessons, for the uniliteral signs only, therefore of limited use. The link points to a Dropbox folder: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uy1two8sy3o41kh/AAC4EKfQP1gvauf3FoPcxzuWa?dl=0
   

Museums and collections

1. DVCTVS - [Spanish] National Papyrological Funds
   Portal dedicated to a digital catalogue and to online publications of papyri from Spanish collections. The work is being continuously updated and, as of now, only parts of the following collections have been digitized: Montserrat Abbey, Palau-Ribes and Pastor Foundation. Through the search function you can find documents in Hieratic, Demotic, Coptic, and Hieroglyphic, as well as many other languages (Greek, Latin, Aramaic, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac).
   
2. Papyrus Portal
   A database that allows users to search all digitized papyrological collections in Germany in a uniform and standardized way. The included collections are those of Berlin, Bonn, Bremen, Erlangen, Giessen, Halle, Heidelberg, Jena, Cologne, Leipzig, Trier, and Würzburg. It is possible to search papyri by language, including Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, Demotic, and Coptic.
   
3. Turin Papyrus Online Platform
   Catalogue of the papyrological collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin, with comprehensive entries, high-resolution images and a user-friendly and effective search tool. 48 Hieratic papyri and one abnormal Hieratic papyrus are included at this time.
   

Collections of texts and digital libraries

1. Digital Egypt for Universities
   Excellent site from the University College of London and Petrie Museum, and edited by Stephen Quirke, director of the museum. At this link users can find the Abusir Papyri and the ostraca of Deir el-Medina (photographs of the original and translation).
   
2. Hieroglyphic and Hieratic Papyri (HHP)
   Hieroglyphic and Hieratic Papyri (HHP) is an online database of metadata. Its aim is to provide information about all published (and semi-published) as well as some unpublished texts written in these two scripts (excluding Abnormal Hieratic), currently some 1520 items.
   
3. Trismegistos
   An interdisciplinary portal of papyrological and epigraphical resources dealing with Egypt and the Nile valley between roughly 800 BC and AD 800. There are very rich databases of metadata on papyrus and parchment.
   
4. Deir el Medine Online - non literary ostraca from Deir el-Medina (Institut für Ägyptologie München)
   Page, in German and English, devoted to the non-literary ostraca of Deir el-Medina. At the moment only the Qurna and Berlin corpora are online, of which transcription, transliteration, description, translation, bibliography and all ancillary information (material, measurements, date, ductus, origin, notes, images, etc.) are provided.
   
5. Corpus of Transcribed Hieratic Documents in the Griffith Institute Archive
   A checklist of the transcriptions kept at the Griffith Institute, Oxford University, made by outstanding scholars of the past like Cerny, Gardiner and Peet. Images are sometimes provided. The site does not index copies of graffiti, even though they are in the archive.