Computer Resources for Egyptian FlashGlyph FlashGlyph (v.2.3) (4 M) is a program for learning Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. It contains a database of images of 256 phonological literals and determinatives and over 700 wordsigns, based mostly on the vocabulary lists in James Hoch's Middle Egyptian Grammar. Version 2.3 includes an option to print paper copies of the signlists, to make hard-copy flashcards you can take on the road with you. The application runs on Windows 95 or later. It requires the Transliteration font, which is included in the ZIP file. (NOTE: This program is shareware and requires registration for access to the entire wordlist).   Registered users of FlashGlyph using earlier versions can download just the update file flashx23 and unzip it into their FlashGlyph folder.   UPDATE: FlashGlyph is no longer shareware. At the registration window, enter User ID flashglyph and User Key 737-863-105 to unlock all the capabilities of FlashGlyph. Senet For Windows Senet For Windows (2.3 M) is the ancient Egyptian game of senet adapted to the computer. You play against the computer, which represents Seth, the evil brother of Osiris, for the right of your ba-spirit to roam free of the tomb. The game has four levels of difficulty, and extensive on-line help. Fonts The ancient Egyptians employed three different styles of writing: hieroglyphic (the familiar "picture" writing), hieratic (a very stylized version of hieroglyphics, and what the professional scribes actually used for day-to-day writing), and demotic (even more stylized; a later development of hieratic). This Website contains only fonts for hieroglyphics. NOTE: None of these fonts can be said to be "typesetting" fonts, since none let you stack glyphs. Transliteration (21K) This is a roman-letter transliteration font for transcribing glyphs (this font is required for my FlashGlyph program, and is included in its distribution file). Distributed by the CCER (see below). Hieroglyphic (403K) A set of 4 fonts covering the entire Gardiner signlist. A very pictorial set of glyphs; almost too pictorial. They are beautifully detailed, but don't look much like actual Egyptian characters. They look more like an Art Deco draftsman put them together. Also, on my monitor screen, or at small point sizes on my printer, a lot of detail is lost. Also distributed by the CCER. SP Egyptian (30K) This font simulates brush-drawn glyphs, with variable width lines and not much detail. Decorative, but sometimes hard to distinguish. Consists only of the monoliteral "alphabetic" glyphs. HieroGlyph Full (67K) I developed this font for my FlashGlyph program. It has a good assortment of mono-, bi- and triliterals and determinatives. I've tried to give this font the somewhat "cartoony" look of the standard glyph fonts used in many printed works on Egyptian (using my copy of E.A. Wallis Budge for reference). (You can probably find the originals of these typesetting fonts on the Web somewhere, but I couldn't when I went looking, and what I found was inconsistent in appearance and incomplete in its glyph selection, so I put together my own.) Character chart (18K) for Hieroglyph Full (this chart is included in the font download file). Others Handwriting practice sheets I compiled these from the Book of the Dead to help me with my handwriting practice. BoD Sheet 1 BoD Sheet 2 BoD Sheet 3 BoD Sheet 4 BoD Sheet 5 BoD Sheet 6 BoD Sheet 7 BoD Sheet 8 BoD Sheet 9 All sheets (180K)   JSesh Hieroglyph Word Processor Freeware program written in Java. Very nice. Center for Computer-Aided Egyptological Research Producers of Glyph for Windows, among other things.

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