Translation of Georg Möller's works on Hieratic
Tom Stableford has translated from German the four (relevant)
parts of Georg Möller’s Hieratische Paläographie into English and transcribed
and transliterated a part of the three volumes of Möller's Hieratische Lesestücke für den akademischen Gebrauch.
Below you may find the instalments that have appeared (2015-2018, 2025).
English translation of: Georg Möller, Hieratische Paläographie. Die aegyptische Buchschrift
in ihrer Entwicklung von der fünften Dynastie bis zur römischen Kaiserzeit. 3 Bände und Ergänzungsheft (1909-1936)
English translation of: Georg Möller, Hieratische Lesestücke für den
akademischen Gebrauch. 3 Bände. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1910–1927
N.B.: Möller only provides the bare hieratic text with very brief introduction and some notes. In the following files, you may find below that text a commentary/analyis (i.e., hieratic, Möller's sign codes, hieroglyphic equivalence, Gardiner's sign codes, transcription)
by Tom Stableford.
- Volume I: (1) Texts from Hatnub (1) [PDF]
- Volume I: (1) Texts from Hatnub (2) [PDF]
- Volume I: (2) Excerpts from Papyrus Prisse [PDF]
- Volume I: (3) Hymn to King Sesostris III, Section A [PDF]
- Volume I: (3) Hymn to King Sesostris III, Section B [PDF]
- Volume I: (3) Hymn to King Sesostris III, Section C [PDF]
- Volume I: (3) Hymn to King Sesostris III, Section D [PDF]
- Volume I: (4) The Story of Sinuhe, Section A [PDF]
- Volume I: (4) The Story of Sinuhe, Section B: columns 1-17 [PDF]
- Volume I: (4) The Story of Sinuhe, Section B: columns 18-33 [PDF]
- Volume I: (4) The Story of Sinuhe, Section B: columns 34-71 [PDF]
- Volume I: (4) The Story of Sinuhe, Section B: columns 72-88 [PDF]
- Volume I: (4) The Story of Sinuhe, Section B: columns 89-104 [PDF]
- Volume I: (4) The Story of Sinuhe, Section B: columns 105-109 [PDF]
- Volume I: (5) Excerpts from The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, Section A: lines 1-8 [PDF]
- Volume I: (5) Excerpts from The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, Section B: columns 1-16 [PDF]
- Volume I: (5) Excerpts from The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, Section B: columns 17-32 [PDF]
- Volume I: (5) Excerpts from The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, Section B: columns 33-50 [PDF]
- Volume I: (5) Excerpts from The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, Section B: columns 51-68 [PDF]
- Volume I: (6) A Will from the Second Year of Amenemhat IV, found at El-Lahun (Kahun), Sections A to D [PDF]
- Volume I: (7) Extracts from the Temple Accounts of Ilahun (Kahun), Sections A and B [PDF]
- Volume I: (8) Letters, Section A: Letters from superiors to subordinates, no. a and b [PDF]
- Volume I: (8) Letters, Section B: Letters from subordinates to superiors, no. a and b [PDF]
- Volume I: (9) From the Middle Kingdom Accounts Book [PDF]
- Volume I: (10) Stories from Papyrus Westcar, Section A [PDF]
- Volume I: (10) Stories from Papyrus Westcar, Section B [PDF]
- Volume I: (11) From the Mathematical Papyrus Rhind [PDF]
- Volume I: (12) From the Medical Papyrus Ebers, Section A [PDF]
- Volume I: (12) From the Medical Papyrus Ebers, Section B [PDF]
- Volume I: (12) From the Medical Papyrus Ebers, Section C [PDF]
- Volume II: (a) Stories: (1) Papyrus d'Orbiney, Page 1 [PDF]
- Volume II: (a) Stories: (1) Papyrus d'Orbiney, Page 2 [PDF]
Additional online material relating to Möller:
- F. Vervloesem, "Index bij Möller, Hieratische Paläographie" (2006) [PDF] (text in Dutch) - URL
- Tobias Konrad, "Updating Möller – Teil 1" (2019, 2024) and "Teil II" (2021/2022) [HTML] , at: Hieratisch AKUell - URL and URL
For online introductions to Hieratic, see:
- Joshua Aaron Roberson, A Very Brief Introduction to Hieratic (2018) - URL
- William Clay Poe, The Writing of a Skillful Scribe. An introduction to hieratic Middle Egyptian through the text
of The Shipwrecked Sailor (Santa Rosa, CA, 2010) - URL
Note the file at Sonoma S U is defective, i.e., it does not show the hieroglyphs in the List of Glyphs (pp. 260/*262-283/*285) correctly. Thanks to Marc Diebold you may find the corrected List at URL.
The whole volume with these corrected pages in place may be found at URL.
For online databases of Hieratic signs, see
- Hieratische Paläographie DB - URL
- Paläographie des Hieratischen und der Kursivhieroglyphen (AKU-PAL) - URL
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