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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Hi Michael</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">There are many photographic examples in the collections part of the BM website. These are CC licensing useable. E.g. Papyrus Harris 500
<a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=439180001&objectId=114255&partId=1">
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?assetId=439180001&objectId=114255&partId=1</a> showing red dot.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Plenty of manuscript transcriptions such as Egyptian Hieratic Texts: transcribed, translated and annotated by Alan H. Gardiner. Series I: Literary texts of the new kingdom (1911) downloadable from
<a href="http://www.etana.org/node/693">http://www.etana.org/node/693</a>. Transcription in print using a hieroglyphic font illustrated in Gardiners Notes on The Story of Sinuhe (1916)
<a href="http://www.etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/15243.pdf">http://www.etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/15243.pdf</a>.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">100 years later, I’ve not yet seen this topic written up by Egyptologists but surely somebody must have done something – anyone know of a document/reference? How is this taught in Egyptology? Hieratic transcription is an artificial process
anyway so it ought to be possible to agree a conventional use for dot in print/digital.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">MdC has codes O and o for black and red hieratic dot but as far as I’m aware use has never been clearly documented – technically, the codes can be used in MdC quadrats like hieroglyphs. But they are not, orthographically speaking so no
need to carry that to Unicode. My default font placement puts the dots at the top of the line by default (and I have a low variant) but other renderings differ. Examples of MdC transcriptions I’ve seen can be haphazard on dot placement.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">I’ll keep an eye open for useful sources but it would be useful if one or more Egyptologists could document accurately. As always solid examples are essential.</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Bob</p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="border:none; padding:0cm"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:everson@evertype.com">Michael Everson</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>06 September 2016 14:31<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:egyptian@evertype.com">Egyptian@evertype</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Egyptian] Hieratic dot</p>
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<div class="PlainText">If anyone is interested in this hieratic dot I will need evidence of use, glyph variation, and meaning.
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