The book Kemyt is an ancient Egyptian school text that has been preserved on pottery shards, papyri, writing tablets, walls and hundreds of ostraca over a period of six centuries. The handwriting used is a special feature in addition to the usual hieratic and cursive hieroglyphic fonts. This volume presents for the first time the entire inventory of characters from more than 200 sources, which was created using digital methods, among other things. This first paleography of the book Kemyt now enables a synchronous and diachronic perspective as well as supra-regional comparisons. The PDF version is also linked to the online database for hieratic and italic hieroglyphs “AKU-PAL”.
Identifier
ISBN 978-3-96929-453-6 (PDF)
ISBN 978-3-96929-454-3 (Hardcover)
Published
19.11.2025
Table of contents
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Svenja A. Gülden, Tobias Konrad, Kyra van der Moezel, Ursula Verhoeven
Foreword by the editorial team
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3 Selection criteria of sources and graphs
9-23
