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AGATE provides access to research information on projects of the German Academies' Programme and the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences. The metadata recorded for the projects can be accessed via a full-text search and faceted according to aspects such as the responsible academy, the project status and content-related aspects such as the geographical or temporal classification of the project. The full-text search allows truncation by setting an asterisk '*' in combination with at least three characters.

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In addition to the German Academies' Programme, AGATE also maps research projects and their results from the Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences. The keywords shown in the project information section refer to information on the implementation of the project, such as the location of the participating research centers – not to the content of the project. These are listed in the Classification section.

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German Academies' Programme (4)

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Research projects in AGATE are classified according to various aspects. The content-related aspects include the assignment of the time period that the project deals with and a geographical categorisation. By selecting one of the following tags, you can search the project database for projects with the selected focus.

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Ancient Egypt (4)

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Research Project, 2015–2037

Altägyptische Kursivschriften. Digitale Paläographie und systematische Analyse des Hieratischen und der Kursivhieroglyphen

The subject of the interdisciplinary project, which combines egyptological research with methods from computer philology, consists of the ancient Egyptian scripts called Hieratic and cursive hieroglyphic script, both having been used alongside monumental hieroglyphic script for over 3000 years. The inventory of signs taken from selected texts is systematically and digitally recorded with different…

PR276

Research Project, 1986–2017

Die Inschriften des ptolemäerzeitlichen Tempels von Edfu

The Horus Temple of Edfu, built between 237 and 57 BC, is considered the best preserved temple of Egyptian antiquity and the entire ancient world. The aim of the project is the edition of the inscriptions of the Ptolemaic temple of Edfu, beginning with the securing of the text basis, translation, supplementation with philological comments up to the publication of extensive materials from the areas…

PR577

Research Project, 2003–2012

Edition des Altägyptischen Totenbuchs vom Neuen Reich bis zur Römerzeit

The ancient Egyptian funerary texts are one of the most important and extensive literary areas of this culture. Three large collections of texts - roughly arranged according to time and place - define them: the pyramid texts of the Old Empire, the coffin texts of the Middle Empire and the Book of the Dead from the New Empire until the Roman times. In contrast to pyramid and coffin texts, the…

PR604

Research Project, 2013–2034

Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache. Text-und Wissenskulturen im alten Ägypten

The Egyptian-Coptic language is the human language with the longest documented lifetime, clocking at 4,500 years prior to its extinction. Its vocabulary reflects the knowledge and worldviews of one of the formative cultures of the ancient world. In order to explore the linguistic and cultural evidence of this historical episteme, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) and…

PR34