Chris's Egyptology Resources

Here are my Egyptology resources:

  • Hieropreter
  • English translation of the Beinlich dictionary
  • Gardiner Sign List
  • Egyptology Links


    Hieropreter helps you work with Egyptian transliteration, Manual de Codage and Gardiner Codes. Hieropreter offers an Egyptian to English and a English to Egyptian dictionary.
    Hieropreter interprets transliteration or Manuel de Codage sequences including Gardiner sign-codes and tries to convert them to English while preserving the Ancient Egyptian word order. (Egyptian word order is: verb subject object abverb.) Hieropreter can help to interpret entire Egyptian passages. For more help on using Hieropreter click here.
    I would like to thank those who have assisted me with this program's dictionary: Luca Brigatti, Mark Vygus, Daniel Boese, George Barreta and Michel Mudde. Jenny Carrington has been very helpful with MdC.

    I welcome constructive feedback, email me at cgbusch@yahoo.com. Hieropreter is only available for free download! The source code includes both a standalone application version and a web server version. The web server version can be installed on a Resin or TomCat server. Hieropreter requires at least Java 1.3.1 and comes precompiled with source code. It is distributed under the GNU concept.

  • hieropreter4-01.zip for WINDOWS or UNIX
    The source code is being distributed under the GNU license and if you make enhancements please share them with me (cgbusch@yahoo.com) to improve the overall code base. For Java, you'll need to visit: http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html to get java 1.3.1 or newer. To fetch Java 1.4.1 try http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/download.html. I'd only download the JRE since its smallest.
    For Windows, after installing Java and unzipping the Hieropreter archive in a particular folder. Use a file browser and find runApp.bat or runApp.sh in the spot you unzipped the hieropreter.zip file. Click on runApp.bat and it should run. You can create a short-cut on your desktop to the .bat file, to make it all easier.


    I have compiled an English translation of the Beinlich Ancient Egyptian to German dictionary.
    I used a free dictionary and freetranslation.com. I also received a Babelfish version that Daniel Boese and his brother worked on. When I compared them, I noticed that on some lines the babelfish got them, and on others freetranslation.com got them. So I indexed the babelfish one, and when freetranslation.com got a miss, I used babelfish's. That got me 560 more translations. When I used the magic-dic dictionary, that got me 150 more translations.
    So the combined file with the references preserved should be the best of both worlds. (I think I've spent too much time on this!!)
    beinlich-english4.zip beinlich-english4.txt
    While not perfect, you can get the general meaning. Take your pick of which one you like.

    I have been emailed a few other dictionaries. Here is eng_sort.txt that George Barret gave me. Michel Mudde mailed me an AE king list Juergen von Beckerath's famous '84 "Handbuch".


    I composed a file of Gardiner sign-list codes to transliteration based on my copy of the Gardiner Egyptian Grammer. gardiner2mdc.txt For more information on "Berlin" transcription see http://www.ccer.theo.uu.nl/ccer/apps/names/rules.html


    Egyptology Links:
  • Luca Brigatti's Hieroword - A downloadable Egyptian dictionary with many search capabilities. You can also add your own words to the dictionary.
  • ETANA - electronic books and archives.
  • Hieroglyphic texts
  • Sennefer's tomb - Walls
  • Sennefer's tomb - Pillars

    I hope you find this useful,
    Chris Busch(cgbusch@yahoo.com)

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