Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic

A corpus for scholars, learners and teachers — witness, Cairene and Kemetic layers of every text

The corpus in numbers

from catalog.csv at build time
12,280witness documents (L0 + L0-ocr)
10,001 (81.4%)share-safe witness documents
47,866,300words in the witnesses
767works
529OCR documents
99,984pages OCR'd
56,978,666Coptic characters (L0)
46orthography rulings
10,019texts served here
5,942texts with English lined up beside the text
318compositions served (works, not documents)
127compositions with more than one witness served

Derived layers, counted on their own: L1 and L2 are generated by code from the witnesses, one file per witness file, so they are not counted as documents of the corpus (ruling CNT-1).

5,192L1 Cairene documents
17,650,321L1 Cairene words
394L1 Cairene works covered
5,192L2 Kemetic documents
17,650,321L2 Kemetic words
394L2 Kemetic works covered

L0.5 (Egyptian transliteration with editorial symbols, the step before L1/L2): 2,438 documents, 1,101,453 words — a working layer, not counted in the corpus or in L1/L2.

Compositions are works (ruling WORK-1: Joshua, a homily, the Difnar), each read in one or more witnesses — they are not documents and are not added into any document count. The corpus holds 339 compositions; 318 are served here, and 21 have no share-safe witness. “Texts with English” counts the texts served with an English column actually lined up beside the text.

Catalogue rows by layer (25,140 rows, one per layer file): L0 witness 11,805 L1 Cairene 5,192 L2 Kemetic 5,192 L0.5 transliteration 2,438 L0 witness (OCR) 475 L2 Kemetic draft 38

Three layers, each generated by code from the one above it: L0 witness (the text as its edition has it), L1 Cairene (standardized Greco-Bohairic spelling and grammar), L2 Kemetic (the Kemetic alphabet). Corrections go into rules, never into output files.

Scholars

Learners

  • Read a text in the witness, in Cairene and in Kemetic, line by line, with English where it exists
  • The Images: 1,028 engraved plates of Egypt, public domain, by collection and volume
  • Guides for readers of Greco-Bohairic and for English speakers into Kemetic planned
  • The children's guides, the rulings game and the Kemetic keyboard planned

Teachers

  • Parallel texts to project: switch the layers you want on each text page
  • Grammar tables and rulings with their corpus evidence planned
  • What may be copied, printed or projected: licences by document

What is served openly

Six share classes (LICENCES.md §0/§11). Only public and attribution are served here; the TLA sentence corpora appear only as our derived layers (ruling F7-3). The reading room for the other classes waits for the permission replies.

share classcatalogue rowson this sitewhy
public7,479served openlypublic domain or an open grant; the edition is still named
attribution14,748served openlywith the attribution line kept on every page and every hit
restricted1,926not on this siteterms allow it only non-commercially or per reader — for the reading room, which waits (G1-4)
internal-unstated9not on this sitenobody has stated terms; the permission requests are outstanding
internal-forbidden327never leaves the machineterms exist and forbid redistribution
unverified651never leaves the machineno licence found and no edition named — not until ruled