"Hieratistik" bezeichnet die Wissenschaft von der so genannten hieratischen Schrift der Alten Ägypter.
Erforscht werden die Funktionen und
Besonderheiten dieser eigentlichen und alltäglichen Schrift der Alten
Ägypter.
Wichtiges Hilfsmittel sind Paläographien,
die auf möglichst umfassenden Zusammenstellungen einzelner
Schriftzeichen basieren, aus deren Vergleich und Analyse
Schreiberindividuen, Schulen, Entwicklungslinien und ggf. auch
Datierungen von Schriftquellen abgeleitet werden können.
The Anne Jeffery Archive is a collection of papers and photographs assembled by L.H. Jeffery
(known as "Anne Jeffery") throughout her working life. It was
bequeathed to the Faculty of Literae Humaniores at Oxford University on
her death in 1986 and comprises one hundred foolscap folders, two
"scribbling diaries" and one large tin of photographic negatives.
The section of the archive relating directly to the production of The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece ("LSAG")
has been catalogued and digitised, as part of a programme of work
(Script, Image and the Culture of Writing in the Ancient World) funded
by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
This portion of the archive amounts to about five thousand pages of
notes filed in seventy-seven of the folders. The notes themselves are
typically written in pencil and include observations, bibliography,
transliterations and drawings of epigraphic documents. The drawings, of
which there are roughly four thousand in this section of the archive,
are of particular interest. Many are originals and in numerous cases the
images sketched by Jeffery give a clear impression of the
three-dimensional context of a given piece of ancient writing. This is
all the more true when the drawings are combined with photographs from
the archive, about six hundred of which concern texts catalogued in LSAG.
The photographs are mostly black and white negatives taken by Jeffery
herself using a medium format (6cm x 6cm) Rolleiflex camera, the few
exceptions being the occasional print obtained for the purposes of
research or sent by others with a request for expert advice.
Anne Jeffery did not originally intend her papers to become an
archive and so was frugal and imaginative in her choice of stationery.
Some notes were made on clean sheets of paper of a fairly standard size
but others were made on whatever scraps came to hand, whether the backs
of draft publications, administrative circulars or odd envelopes. Many
of these materials do not age well and the result is that the archive is
deteriorating. This factor has added urgency to the digitisation
project.
The papers and photographs in the Anne Jeffery Archive complement and enrich LSAG.
They add substantially to the brief entries on individual inscriptions
in the book. The aim of this project is to make the archive available in
electronic form as a new and extensible resource for studying the
development of the Greek alphabet.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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