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Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (TLA)

pan-Egypt · Predynastic through Roman; covers hieroglyphic, hieratic, Demotic

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Source details

Type: text_db
Access: rest_api
Stack: sru-fcs
License: CC-BY-SA 4.0
Modality: mdc
ID system: TLA Lemma ID (numeric) + handle.net PID
ID tier: tier-1
Inscription richness: 10/10
Cleanliness: 8/10

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Notes

## Discovered schema (Corpus issue 19, Nov 2024) API: CLARIN SRU 2.0 with LexFCS extension. XML-only, no JSON. Max 250 per call. ### Endpoints - Explain: https://textplus.thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/sru/?operation=explain&x-fcs-endpoint-description=true&version=2.0 - Search: https://textplus.thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/sru/?operation=searchRetrieve&queryType=lex&query=FIELD%3DVALUE&maximumRecords=N - Lemma: https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/lemma/{id} ### Supported lex fields (per explain) lemma, pos, gender, translation, baseform, hyponym, hypernym, related, entryId, lang, ref ### Query syntax notes - `pos=NOUN`, `pos=VERB`, etc. — works - `translation=god` — works but exact-match only; "god" returns 2 hits, not many - `lemma=jw` — DOES NOT match (lemma matching requires Egyptian transliteration with diacritics, e.g., `jw` with proper ꜣꜥḫḥṯ chars) - Wildcards `*` `?` and boolean OR/AND/NOT (uppercase) supported per docs ### Per-record fields observed - entryId (numeric, TLA-WCN — the primary canonical ID) - lemma (multiple xml:lang variants: egy-Latn-leidentr = Latin transliteration; egy-Egyp = Unicode hieroglyphs) - translation (xml:lang deu/eng/fra — German is always present, English/French often) - pos (vocabRef to https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/listings/parts-of-speech; values seen this run: ['common_noun', 'epithet', 'title']) - gender, baseform, hyponym, hypernym, related — present on some records ### Identifiers - TLA-WCN: numeric, ~3-7 digits. Resolves to /lemma/{id}. - PID (handle.net): hdl:21.11101/0000-0007-FE39-C — covers the resource, not individual lemmas. - xml:lang langUri values like `egy-Latn-leidentr` and `egy-Egyp` are stable URI tags. ### Open questions for later sessions - Is the TLA text corpus (vs lemma list) accessible via API, or only via the SPA at thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/text/{id}? - Periodic data dump? The site references "Corpus issue 19" implying versioned releases — likely Zenodo. - License: TLA citation pages reference CC-BY-SA 4.0 in copyright text; confirm exact license for bulk reuse.