digitalEPIGRAPHY's New Databases for Painted Hieroglyphs and Visual Documentation Are Here!

With our brand-new collections, digitalEPIGRAPHY would like to test the water to find out how we can support your research. What we've been working on for some time now is two visual databases, directly accessible and searchable through the website, implemented within the Complementary Material section.

The Mastabas of Qar and Idu G 7101 and 7102 - Digitally Revised and Enhanced Edition

The chapter by chapter web version of the book, The Mastabas of Qar and Idu, written by William Kelly Simpson in 1976, with contributions or drawings by Dows Dunham, Suzanne Chapman, Hansmartin Handrick, Alexander Floroff, Timothy Kendall, Nicholas Thayer, and Lynn Holden. Based upon the excavations and recording of George Andrew Reisner, Alan Rowe, William Stevenson Smith, and T. R. D. Greenlees. Museum of Fine Arts-Harvard University Expedition.

Painted hieroglyph representing a newborn bubalis (iw) from El-Khokha, Thebes

Announcing the new Painted Hieroglyphs and Visual Documentation databases

Painted Hieroglyphic text from TT 179, the early Eighteenth Dynasty tomb of Nebamun (detail)

Digitally Inking the Mastaba Architrave of Old Kingdom Scribe, Idu