Projects
Projects
Research projects at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Current project
7: "Exploring the minds of Ancient Egypt and Ancient China —
A comparative network analysis of the classifier systems of the scripts"
ISF grant no.1704/22, PI Prof. Orly Goldwasser, co-investigator, Prof. Zev Handel.
Publications
Goldwasser, Orly & Zev Handel (eds). 2024. Classifiers in Ancient Scripts. A Special volume of the Journal of Chinese Writing Systems.
Goldwasser, Orly & Zev Handel. 2024. "Preface: Graphemic classifiers in complex Script Systems."
Classifiers in Ancient Scripts. A Special volume of the Journal of Chinese Writing Systems, 2–13.
Harel, Haleli, Orly Goldwasser and Dmitry Nikolaev. 2024. "iClassifier, A Digital Research Tool for Corpus-based Classifier Networks
in Complex Writing Systems." Journal Of Chinese Writing Systems, Special Issue: Classifiers in Ancient Scripts, 79–102.
Goldwasser, Orly and Susana Soler. 2024. “Semantic Classifiers (determinatives) and Categorization in the Ancient Egyptian Writing System:
Rules, List of Classifiers, and Studies by iClassifier on the ‘Story of Sinuhe’.” Journal Of Chinese Writing Systems, Special Issue: Classifiers in Ancient Scripts, 34–58.
Presentations
Goldwasser, Orly & Yanru Xu. "Ancient Chinese and Ancient Egyptian Scripts – New Comparative Interdisciplinary Research."
13th International Congress of Egyptology, Leiden, August 2023.
Past projects
6: “Classifying the other: The classification of Semitic loanwords in the Egyptian script”
sponsored by ISF (Israel Science Foundation). 2017-2021.
Publications
Goldwasser, Orly. 2022. “Des déterminatifs aux classifcateurs: la catégorisation dans l’écriture des anciens Égyptiens.” In Guide des écritures de l’Égypte antique, edited by S. Polis, 164-171. Le Caire: coll. Les Guides de l’Ifao, 1.
Harel, Haleli. 2023. A Network of Lexical Borrowings in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom: Organizing Knowledge according to the Classifier System. Doctoral dissertation. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Harel, Haleli, Orly Goldwasser and Dmitry Nikolaev. 2023. ‘Mapping the ancient Egyptian mind: Introducing iClassifier, a new platform for systematic analysis of classifiers in Egyptian and beyond.’ In Ancient Egypt and New Technology: The Present and Future of Computer Visualization, Virtual Reality and other Digital Humanities in Egyptology. Edited by J. A. Roberson, R. Lucarelli and S. Vinson. Leiden: Brill.
Presentations
Harel, Haleli. 2017. Tracking Variation in Orthography: The Case of Loanwords in Ancient Egyptian (Poster), in: manuSciences‘17 French German Summer School organized by the BAM, CSMC and EPHE/PSL.
Harel, Haleli. 2018. "How Does Language Portray Culture Contact? Semitic Loanwords in Second Intermediate Period and New Kingdom Egypt",(Poster), in: 'Crossroads III – A Stranger in the House', Prague, September 10-13, 2018.
Orly Goldwasser, Haleli Harel and Dmitry Nikolaev. March 2019. ‘Mapping the ancient Egyptian mind: Introducing iClassifier, a new platform for systematic analysis of classifiers in Egyptian and beyond’, at: Ancient Egypt and New Technology: The Present and Future of Computer Visualization, Virtual Reality and other Digital Humanities in Egyptology. An international conference to be held 29–30 March 2019 at Indiana University – Bloomington.
Orly Goldwasser, Haleli Harel and Dmitry Nikolaev. April 19, 2019 ‘iClassifier – A digital tool for systematic classifier analysis of classifier languages and scripts.' In: “Noun categorization: from grammar to communicative interaction.” Lyon (DDL research center). http://www.ddl.cnrs.fr/colloques/NCW2019/
Harel, Haleli. 4/2021. A comparative framework for graphemic classifier analysis (Egyptian, Sumerian (Cuneiform) and Old Chinese) using the iClassifier digital research platform. https://egyptology.yale.edu/conferences/current-conferences/conference-program
5: “Ancient Egyptian Classifiers in a Diachronic Perspective”
sponsored by GIF (German Israeli Foundation). 2008-2011. With Prof. Frank Kammerzell.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Northeast African Archaeology and Cultural Studies
and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Division of Egyptology, Department of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Institute of Archaeology.
Publications
Allon, Niv. 2010. "On the Outskirts of a System: Classifiers in Ancient Egyptian Transliterated Foreign Texts.” Lingua Aegyptia 18: 1-17.
Goldwasser, O. and C. Grinevald, 2012. “What Are Determinatives Good For?” In Lexical Semantics in Ancient Egyptian. Eds. E. Grossman, St. Polis. and J. Winand, 17-53. Lingua Aegyptia Studia Monographica. Hamburg: Widmaier Verlag.
4: “Stability and adaptation of classification systems in a cross-cultural perspective”
sponsored by COST, Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health COST Action A31 2006-2010.
Chair of the Action: Ms Thekla WIEBUSCH (FR), Vice Chair of the Action: Prof Orly GOLDWASSER (IL)
http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/A31
3: “Kulturkontakt und Innovation”
sponsored by the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2000-2003.
Institut für Ägyptologie der Universität Wien and Division of Egyptology, - Ancient Near Eastren Langauges and Cultures, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Publications
Allon, Niv. 2007. “Seth is Baal – Evidence from the Script.” Ägypten und Levante 17, 15-22.
The Challenge of the Hyksos – Cultural Interference in New Kingdom Egypt. In: Contributions to the Archaeology of Egypt and the Levant IV, Eds. O. Goldwasser, M. Bietak and E. Grossman. Denkschriften der Gesamtakademie der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien. (In preparation).
2: “Typology and Usage of Egyptian Writing”
sponsored by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, 2000-2003. With Dr. Frank Kammerzell.
Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie, the University of Göttingen
and Division of Egyptology - Ancient Near Eastern languages and Cultures, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
Publications
Goldwasser, Orly. 2002. Lovers, Prophets and Giraffes - Wor[l]d Classification in Ancient Egypt. Classification and categorization in Ancient Egypt 38 Vol.3, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
Shalomi-Hen, Rachel. 2006. The Writing of Gods: The Evolution of the Divine Classifiers in the Old Kingdom. Classification and categorization in Ancient Egypt 38 Vol.4. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (PhD Thesis).
David, Arlette. 2006. Syntactic and Lexico-Semantic Aspects of the Legal Register in Ramesside Royal Decrees (with a Discussion on Classifiers). Classification and Categorization in Ancient Egypt 38 Vol.5. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (PhD Thesis).
1: “Classifiers and Classification in Ancient Egypt”
sponsored by the Niedersächsisches Vorab der Volkswagen Stiftung, 1997-1999. With Prof. Friedrich Junge and Dr. Frank Kammerzell.
Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie, the University of Göttingen
and the Division of Egyptology, Ancient near Eastern Languages and Cultures, The Hebrew University , Jerusalem.
Publications
Goldwasser, Orly (with Appendix by Matthias Müller), 1999. “The Determinative System as a Mirror of World organization.” Göttinger Miszellen 170: 49-68.
Wawrzyniec, Smoczynski. 1999. "Seeking Structure in the Lexicon – On Some Cognitive-Functional Aspects of Determinative Assignment.” Lingua Aegyptia 6: 153-162.
David, Arlette. 2000. De l’infériorité a la perturbation. L’oiseau du “mal” et la catégorisation en Egypte ancienne. Classification and Categorization in Ancient Egypt. 38 Vol.1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (MA Thesis).
Shalomi-Hen, Rachel. 2000. Classifying the Divine: Determinatives and Categorization in CT 335 and BD 17. Classification and categorization in Ancient Egypt. 38 Vol.2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (MA Thesis).