Hieroglyphs Addenda

The numbered courses teach in sequence — each chapter assumes the ones before it. The addenda work the other way: they are the school’s shelf of materials that serve every course and belong to none, consulted whenever you need them, in any order, at any point in your study.

On the shelf

1. Egyptian terms — the hieroglyph-specific glossary: uniliteralsa sound-sign spelling exactly one consonant and cartouchesthe rope ring drawn around a royal name in Egyptian writing, hieraticthe fast cursive everyday form of Egyptian writing, done with brush and ink and serekhthe palace-facade frame around the earliest Egyptian royal names — the cartouche's ancestor, one plain sentence each; the same definitions behind the hover bubbles
2. Signs — one page for every sign — each taught sign's permanent home: its keyword, the picture Gardiner identified, a way to remember it, its lookalikes, and one real line it lives in
3. Drills — every sign, three ways — the whole inventory as retrieval cards, dealt in a fresh order each day (or cut the deck yourself) and printable as cut-out Leitner slips
4. Easily confused — side by side — the lookalike signs drilled deliberately together: tell them apart before they blur
5. Study decks — real spaced repetition — downloadable Anki decks, one card per sign, and the three steps to FSRS scheduling
6. Almost yours — the frontier — real corpus lines one sign beyond your inventory, ▢ by design: the edge of your reading, made visible

Terms shared across all scripts — determinativea silent sign at the end (in cuneiform, often the front) of a word that classifies it — person, god, place, motion — never pronounced, logograma sign that writes a whole word by itself, rebusborrowing a picture for its sound instead of its meaning — drawing a sun to write "son", and their kin — live in the site’s general glossary. The shelf will grow — extended materials that outgrow a course chapter land here. For the courses themselves, go back to the school catalog.