Texts in 3D
Texts in 3D (T3D) is a project financed by the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, and is based at the University of Alcalá (2024-2025).
Objectives
T3D will prepare 3D digital models of documents with mortuary texts from Middle Kingdom Egypt (c 2000-1500 BC) available. The sources will be prepared and curated to focus on text mining, network analysis, and computational calculations. The plan is to make the results accessible on the internet to foster research and dissemination of these documents in studies on material culture, religion, digital philology, empirical linguistics and other related fields.
Approach
1. All preliminary information on the sources will be gathered and integrated with the MORTEXVAR database.
2. When needed, sources will be collated against previous publications, mainly Adriaan De Buck's The Egyptian Coffin Texts I-VII (1935-1961), Jim Allen's The Egyptian Coffin Texts VIII (2006), and Leonard Lesko's Index of the spells on Egyptian Middle Kingdom coffins and related documents (1979).
3. New photographic material will be collected from the institutions collaborating with the T3D project when possible.
4. The database will be completed with all the new information and prepared for its exploitation: image treatment and 3D models; text mining; network and computational analyses; philological, linguistic, graphemic, religious, historical and archaeological interpretations.
5. Universal availability of the database will be aimed.
Team
One Egyptologist, one database assistant and one photographer will be in charge of collecting and organising the data to be linked with the MORTEXVAR database under the PI's coordination and the collaborators' feedback.
PI: Carlos Gracia Zamacona
Egyptologist: Lisa Sartini
Photographer: Patricia Mora
Database assistant: Carlos Díaz Jiménez
Collaborators
Gersande Eschenbrenner Diemer, Universidad de Alcalá: Egyptologist (wood analysis).
David Fuentes Jiménez, Universidad de Alcalá: Engineer (computer vision).
Álvaro Hernández Alonso, Universidad de Alcalá: Engineer (electronic design).
Antonio J. Morales, Universidad de Alcalá: Egyptologist (Pyramid Texts).
Sira Palazuelos Cagigas, Universidad de Alcalá: Engineer (natural language processing).
Daniel Pizarro Pérez, Universidad de Alcalá: Engineer (computer vision).
Jorke Grotenhuis, Universidad de Alcalá: Egyptologist (facsimiles, palaeography).
Iker Barriales Valbuena, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid: Computational analyst (text layout analysis).
Luisa María García González, Northeast Normal University - NENU, Changchun: Egyptologist (Social network analysis)
