Themes

Curated entry points into the corpus.

Language, geography, form, and method — ways into the corpus that cut across museums and text databases, not just one source at a time.

Language

Reading Ancient Egyptian

Transliteration, English translation, and TLA dictionary links

Records where the Egyptian itself is readable: Manuel-de-Codage transliteration, an English translation (scholarly, or English rendered from the scholarly German), and a link to the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae. The language corpus (ORAEC) has no photographs of its own, so the sample mixes those texts with museum objects whose catalogues published the signs — offering formulae, stelae, and statues from the Walters, Art Institute, Fitzwilliam, Brooklyn, and the British Museum.
Geography

Akhenaten's Amarna

The short-lived capital, from the EES grid to museum collections

Pharaoh Akhenaten built a new capital at Amarna in c. 1346 BCE, abandoned it after his death, and the site was buried for three millennia. The Egypt Exploration Society recorded every find on the Petrie grid; those excavation records have no photographs here. Museum collections (the Met, Brooklyn, the British Museum) hold the painted fragments, talatat, and household objects from the same city — they are the pictures for this theme.
Methodology

The Cross-Source Spine

Trismegistos-Text IDs linking DDbDP, HGV and APIS

The unique-in-the-world claim of this database: a single Trismegistos ID stitches together a Greek papyrus's text edition (DDbDP), its scholarly metadata and dating (HGV), and the collection record of the physical papyrus (APIS). The spine is not just an index — records inherit across it, so a text edition with no findspot of its own is placed on the map from the excavation record of the same papyrus. Anything borrowed that way is labelled on the object page. A few hundred of those papyri now carry a photograph (Duke APIS); the rest are the edition and the metadata.
Language

Voices of Greco-Roman Egypt

Papyri linked across DDbDP, HGV, and APIS by Trismegistos ID

After Alexander, Egypt's daily life was written on papyrus in Greek: contracts, letters, tax receipts, petitions, and literature. This theme gathers the documentary-papyrus corpus, where a single Trismegistos-Text ID stitches each document's edition (DDbDP), its scholarly metadata (HGV), and its physical record (APIS) into one cross-referenced whole. Photographs, where they exist, come from the APIS collections (especially Duke).
AI analysis

What the AI Sees

Artifacts read by vision AI: deities, royal cartouches, signs, materials, visible text

Each object's primary image goes through a structured vision-AI analysis: the model identifies deities, royal names, materials, hieroglyphic signs, and any visible text. The model is shown the museum's own catalogue record alongside the photograph, so it describes and confirms rather than guesses — an ungrounded read mistook a faience sow for a scarab and a lapis falcon for an owl. Every reading is machine-generated and labelled as such; the AI panel on each detail page shows its full output.