Here is the Dutch text-to-English translation of Filip Vervloesem's Index of Möller's Hieratic Paleography. Since I don't speak Dutch, I took the Babelfish web page translation and spent a few hours fine-tuning it. If there are any faults, they are mine. I would appreciate corrections. RL

Index of Möller's Hieratic Paleography

F. Vervloesem

24 February 2006

Introduction

Even if one reads Hieratic texts quickly, one uses Möller’s paleography. Unfortunately this paleography is not established according to Gardiner’s

Sign list,¹ but according to the (then accepted) sign list of Theinhardt.² This sometimes makes looking up certain hieroglyphs a long-term and annoying work.

Not only are some of its hieroglyphs simply taken from the wrong place,³ Möller’s index itself is also enormously confusing, since signs there do not stand in the same order as in his paleography.

Hence, I have established this list with each hieroglyph accorded its Gardiner classification and corresponding number in Möller’s paleography (if existing).

I have not given the ligatures separate numbers, since these forms in Gardiner’s sign list are not found to exist. (You find the higher numbers, however, under the basic number, e.g.. all multiples of ten stand under V20, i.e. ...) I have also given the extra signs that occur in Allen’s sign list ⁴. These are (generally) not supported by software that I use. For this reason I forewarn you about these signs with ... in this index.

Furthermore, there is still an index in which the signs based on Möller’s numbers are arranged. You can then, judging by a number in Möller's sign list, rapidly find the corresponding sign in Gardiner. (In practice you will seldom use this, but it was only a small effort to generate the index in the opposite direction.)

Nevertheless, since I already had put the data on the computer for this index, it was not much work for me to write it in the program. You can still more rapidly ascertain a certain sign: you simply input the Gardiner - or Möller - number of a certain sign and the program gives it a corresponding number from the other sign list. Still, it is even more versatile in that you can search by fonogram or ideogram: you input e.g.. sn in, and the program seeks T22 (...) and returns to you the corresponding number in Möller. 516,⁵ Those who have interest in this programming, can always email me.⁶

I hope in advance that this index is a lot more useful then that in Möller’s paleography itself, so that we who await a new paleography nevertheless can already look up signs according to our trusted order of Gardiner. If you could make some observations concerning this index or notice certain typographic errors, then I would gladly like to hear about these. You can always email me at:filip.vervloesem@student.kuleuven.be.

2 Explanation of the index

* The first index has been built in the following manner: An image in the first column represents the hieroglyph in question (only presented once where several numbers in Möller correspond).

* In the second column, the number stands for this hieroglyph according to Gardiner’s sign list.

* The number in the third column stands for the corresponding number in Möller’s paleography.

- “/” Means that the sign does not occur in Möller. Thus occurs e.g.. Gardiner

O13 (...) not in Möller.

- A number between brackets means that the two signs are not exactly the same, but nevertheless are (slightly) similar. This possibly occurs with alternative forms of a sign (another sign, but exactly the same meaning) or with rare signs in Möller which do not present in Gardiner (which frequently however, are to be compared with a less rare sign).

- A notation such as ` v3p2n3 ` means “see page 2, footer 3 in Möller volume 3”. Provisionally only footnotes of part 2 and 3 are given.⁷

One sign can correspond (or be comparable) with several signs. First, (generally) look to the signs which are not between brackets, next, look to those between brackets or look to possible footnotes.

In the second index (Möller - Gardiner), the order of the columns, is of course, the other way around. To save space, no more images of the hieroglyphs, have been given. …

3.1 Index according to Gardiners Sign list

⁷I have established this index (mainly) on the basis of the index in Möller’s paleography. Part 1 however, has no index. That is why I have not given the footnotes for that yet. (Only the footnotes which refer to extra signs in Möller in the index have been incorporated, what was rapidly seen, was however skillfully, which footnotes require a separate indication in this index and which do not. Perhaps in the future, I will still add part of the relevant footnotes to this index.)

3.2

Signs which have not been incorporated in the index

The following signs in Möller are not present in Gardiner's sign list:

The following signs in Möller are not certainly identified with a hieroglyph in Gardiner's

sign list: 56. 57. 58. 59. 228. 605. 606. 607. 608. 609. 610. 611. 612. 613. 688. 689. 692.

693.

4 Index Möller - Gardiner

4.1 Index according to Möller's sign list ⁸

⁸For those interested: the following numbers are not used in any of the three volumes in Möller's paleography. (except possibly in a footnote): 60. 170. 385. 543 and 576.

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4.2 Signs which have not been incorporated in the index

The following signs in Gardiner are absent in Möller's sign list: