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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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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, 2016–2040

Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea

The systematic research into the Ethiopian manuscript culture is the aim of the long-term project “Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung” (“Beta maṣāḥǝft: Manuscripts of Ethiopia and Eritrea”). Ethiopia and Eritrea are situated, from the perspective of cultural history, both at the periphery of the so-called Christian Orient and in the…

PR14

Research Project, since 2014

Digitales sumerisches Lexikon

The index card collection of the University of Munich, copied and arranged by Prof. Dr. P. Attinger in 1992, has since then been continuously expanded and supplemented by him. The basic stock of about 17 000 cards after transcription has grown to about 75 000 cards until today. Sumerian lexemes and their proofs are recorded, mainly in secondary literature. The lexemes are recorded both in their…

PR708

Research Project, since 2005

e-codices. Virtuelle Handschriftenbibliothek der Schweiz

Since 2005, e-codices has been editing medieval and modern manuscripts on the Internet as the digital manuscript library of Switzerland. Its high-quality and innovative presentation makes it a nationally and internationally recognized research tool. Currently 2'480 manuscripts from 97 libraries are online (as of October 26, 2020). The project is freely accessible (Open Access). The goal is to…

PR740

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