[Egyptian] An afternoon at the Ashmolean. And a challenge.
Bob Richmond
bobqq at live.co.uk
Sat Jul 30 18:19:06 BST 2016
Hi Nigel
Yes you did - thanks - but your example encodes fine - I'm looking for the
weird and unusual ones.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Egyptian [mailto:egyptian-bounces at evertype.com] On Behalf Of Nigel
Strudwick
Sent: 30 July 2016 17:58
To: Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the UCS <egyptian at evertype.com>
Subject: Re: [Egyptian] An afternoon at the Ashmolean. And a challenge.
Didn't I send one the other day?
Nigel
On 30 Jul 2016, at 17:51, Bob Richmond <bobqq at live.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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