egyptian hieroglyphics...
Duke Papyrus Archive:
see especially Writing in Egypt under Greek and Roman Rule.
[here] for a list of receipts, accounts, magical texts, petitions and declarations
(etc.), inscribed on materials other than papyrus, eg., clay seals,
ostraka, metal, wood. Duke University also has a searchable database, www or telnet interface.
Serge Rosmorduc's A Short Introduction to Hieroglyphics is quite extensive. It includes 'The Writing System: Three kinds of signs; The Phonetic signs; The Determatives; Sign groupings, plus The deciphering of Hieroglyphics; a few grammatical notations.
Duke Papyrus Archive:
sho (Japanese calligraphy)...
A simple Introduction to Japanese Calligraphy, sho References to manyokana, Kukai and the five basic scripts.
see especially Writing in Egypt under Greek and Roman Rule.
[here] for a list of receipts, accounts, magical texts, petitions and declarations
(etc.), inscribed on materials other than papyrus, eg., clay seals,
ostraka, metal, wood. Duke University also has a searchable database, www or telnet interface.
