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Motte, Aurore and Konrad, Tobias: A Paleography of the Book of Kemyt, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025 (Beiträge zu Altägyptischen Kursivschriften, Volume 1). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.1656

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11/19/2025

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Aurore Motte , Tobias Konrad

A Paleography of the Book of Kemyt

Beiträge zu Altägyptischen Kursivschriften

The Book of Kemyt is an ancient Egyptian school text preserved on pottery sherds, papyri, writing tablets, walls, and hundreds of ostraca, over six centuries. The handwriting displays a special style between the usual scripts, hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs. This volume is the first to present the complete inventory of signs from more than 200 sources, compiled primarily using digital methods. This paleography of the Book of Kemyt provides a synchronic and diachronic perspective, as well as cross-regional comparisons. The PDF version is linked to “AKU-PAL”, the online database of hieratic and cursive hieroglyphs.

Aurore Motte, Ph.D. (2018), University of Liège, is a postdoctoral researcher of the National Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS, Belgium). She has published on ancient Egyptian language, literature, and paratext, and co-edited Looking Beyond the Text: New Approaches to Scribal Culture and Practices in Ancient Egypt (Brill, 2025).

Tobias Konrad is a research associate working on the Academy project “Ancient Egyptian Cursive Scripts (AKU). Digital Paleography and Systematic Analysis of Hieratic and Cursive Hieroglyphs.” His primary research focuses on methods in the digital humanities. He is also involved in data curation and the development of the project database and online version, AKU-PAL. Currently, he is investigating cursive hieroglyphs from the Middle Kingdom.

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Titelei
Contents
vii-viii
Tobias Konrad
Vorwort des Herausgeberteams
ix-x
Preface
xi-xiii
1 Introduction
1-2
2 The Kemyt script
3-8
3 Selection criteria of sources and graphs
9-23
4 Corpus
25-38
5 Paleography
39-701
Bibliography
703-711

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