[Egyptian] An afternoon at the Ashmolean. And a challenge.

[Bob Richmond]

Hi All

 

I'm not an Egyptologist.

 

Nevertheless I spent a couple of hours today inspecting the hieroglyphic
artefacts on display at the Ashmolean with notebook and camera phone in
hand. My main objective was to try to spot any writings that might cause
problems with group joiners. Collection isn't much help for 'tall groups'
but plenty of vertical texts.

 

I was also looking for any LIGATURE related problems. None discovered, just
the usual suspects among the ligated clusters. Not that I expected anything:
the anomaly frequency in the total  corpuses appears very low, order of
0.01% averaged probably (not saying that it should be ignored- it's a
consensus topic; but important to put in proportion).

 

I'm hoping to do similar at the BM Tuesday. Not very scientific I know but
worth doing to keep grounded.

 

If anyone else has a local museum here's the Bob challenge. Find and
photograph any problem clusters you can spot and send for my collection!

 

Thank you

Bob

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