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Strukturen und Transformationen des Wortschatzes der ägyptischen Sprache: Text- und Wissenskultur im Alten Ägypten

NFDI Text+ LexFCS API

Information

  • Dokumentation (this page): https://textplus.thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de (hdl:21.11101/0000-0007-FE3A-B)
  • LexFCS format: E. Körner, Th. Eckart, A. Herold, F. Wiegand, et. al.. Federated Content Search for Lexical Resources (LexFCS): Specification, Version 0.2 (16.12.2024), DOI 10.5281/zenodo.14500209.

Search/Retrieve Unit operations

Endpoint

https​://​textplus.thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/sru/

Explain

Search/retrieve

  • ?operation=searchRetrieve&query=
  • ?query= (short; example)

LexFCS queries

query= (examples)CommentStatus
lemma=ḥm
lemma=𓇋𓏠𓈖		Search for lemma form (lemma=);
transliteration in Leiden Unified Transliteration (but “ï” is merged with “ꞽ”)
or hieroglyphs in Unicode (without control characters).		✓
lemma=ꞽmn*
lemma=𓁶𓊪*		Search for lemma form with wildcard  “*”:
any amount of any characters (including none).		✓
lemma=?mn
lemma=?𓏠𓈖𓏏		Search for lemma form with wildcard “?”:
any (single) character.		✓
pos=NOUNSearch by Universal Dependencies Part of Speech (pos=): UD POS.✓
pos=rootSearch by TLA Part of Speech: TLA main POS.✓
gender=fSearch by nominal gender (gender=): “m” or “f” (lower case).
(Note: For names, epithets, and titles, TLA has no gender encoded.)		✓
translation=houseSearch for translation (translation=).✓
translation=/lang=eng houseSearch for translation in a specified language (/lang=):
eng, deu, fra, or ara.		✓
translation="house Amun"Search for two terms in translation (sequence is not relevant);
equivalent to query “translation="Amun" AND translation="house"”.
(This logic is possibly subject to change.)		✓
baseform=mnSearch for lemma root (baseform=);
transliteration in LUT only, no hieroglyphs).		✓
entryId=600156Search by TLA lemma ID (entryId=).✓
lemma=ḥm OR lemma=ḥm.t
lemma=𓏠𓈖 OR lemma=𓏠𓈖𓏛		Boolean OR (upper case).✓
lemma=ꞽmn AND pos=VERBBoolean AND (Note: AND has no precedence over OR;
according to the general FCS specifications).		✓
lemma=ꞽmn NOT pos=VERBBoolean NOT logically corresponds to (non-existent) AND NOT
(Note: NOT has no precedence over AND or OR).		✓
(Not supported:)
lemma=ꞽmn AND (pos=VERB OR pos=NOUN)		Currently, round brackets are not supported with OR, AND, or NOT;
please rephrase, e.g. “pos=VERB OR pos=NOUN AND lemma=ꞽmn”.
(Note: AND has no precedence over OR.)		✕
Typeless query terms
ḥm
𓇋𓏠𓈖		Simple query, without explicit type;
equivalent to lemma form query
(“lemma=ḥm”,  “lemma=𓇋𓏠𓈖”), see below.		✓
ḥm OR ḥm.t
𓇋𓏠𓈖 AND pos=VERB

Content

Hieroglyphic/hieratic and Demotic lemmata as in

Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae <https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de>, Corpus issue 19, 11/5/2024, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils on behalf of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig.

Citation of the API

Refer to the API as:

Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, LexFCS Endpoint, textplus.thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils on behalf of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, PID 21.11101/0000-0007-FE3A-B.

Data license (work in prgress)

Rights on the data reserved for now (we are currently working on the licensing concept).

[Text: D.A. Werning, 16.1.2025]