User’s Guide / Concordance Data Sources
Concordance Data Sources
Description of each database column in the ID Concordance table — data source, ID format, coverage, and the method used to establish correspondences.
| Column | Database / Project | ID Format | Entries | Mapping Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Möller No | Hieratische Paläographie (Möller, 1909–36) | integer (1–570+) | 937 | Base data. Primary key of this project. Sourced from the St Andrews hieratic concordance table. |
| Gardiner No | Gardiner's Sign List | letter + number (e.g. A1, D21, Aa1) | most signs | Cross-referenced from the St Andrews concordance table. Simple codes link directly to the Wikipedia section for that sign. |
| Glyph | Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyphs (rendered) | Unicode character | rendered from unicode_cp | Displayed directly from the Unicode code point stored in the data. |
| JSesh | JSesh Hieroglyphic Editor (Rosmorduc) | Gardiner code (e.g. A1) | same as Gardiner | JSesh uses the same Gardiner codes internally. Links to the JSesh SVG glyph image served from qenherkhopeshef.org. |
| HG (Hieroglyphica) | Hieroglyphica | numeric code | partial | Legacy sign encoding. Cross-referenced from existing data; no dedicated scrape or API. |
| MdC (Manuel de Codage) | Manuel de Codage — standard transliteration | same as Gardiner (e.g. A1, D21) | same as Gardiner | Standard notation derived directly from the Gardiner No field. No separate scrape required. |
| TSL | Thot Sign List — thotsignlist.org | integer (e.g. 396) | ~396 | IDs taken directly from the St Andrews concordance table, which already includes TSL cross-references. |
| AKU | AKU-PAL — Akademie Kuratorium Universität, Mainz | "A0890" (letter + 4 digits) | 249 | Fetched via the public REST API GET /api/graphemes (971 entries, ~10 MB JSON). Matched to this dataset by comparing the MdC field in each AKU grapheme record. |
| DPDP | Demotic Palaeography Database Project | Unicode code point (e.g. U+1301E) | 412 | DPDP has no public API. The JavaScript SPA bundle (demoticSigns.js) was fetched and parsed. Hieroglyphs enclosed in 《》 brackets were extracted as a set of Unicode characters (340 unique). These were cross-referenced against the unicode_char field in this dataset. |
| Isut | Isut — Université de Liège | Gardiner code (e.g. A26) | 360 | No public API. The signs/overview HTML page was fetched and all signname= URL parameters were extracted via regex. Only signs whose Gardiner code appears in the scraped list are linked. |
| PHRP | Polychrome Hieroglyph Research Project — ULB Brussels | SignKey integer (e.g. 35) | 556 | No public API. The ListAllSigns.php HTML page was fetched and all SignKey=N&Gard=XX patterns were extracted via regex (~780 signs). Matched by Gardiner code. The URL requires only SignKey — the Gard parameter is not needed. |
| Unicode | Unicode Egyptian Hieroglyphs (U+13000–U+1342F) | U+XXXXX (e.g. U+13000) | 521 | Matched via the ORAEC MdC-to-Unicode conversion table. Code points link to the Unicode character inspector at util.unicode.org. |
Source data: ID Concordance Table — Datasets