Corpus Statistics

A quantitative overview of the PharaLex dataset — hieroglyphic signs, dictionary entries, ancient texts, and pharaohs across three millennia of Egyptian history.

𓊛

8,132

Hieroglyphs

𓏛

45,555

Dictionary Words

𓋹

230

Pharaohs

𓂋

Ancient Texts

Glyphs by Gardiner Category

26 categories, sorted by glyph count

A – Man and his occupations1,086

C – Anthropomorphic deities772

O – Buildings, parts of buildings, etc.606

D – Parts of the human body599

E – Mammals540

G – Birds517

M – Trees and plants419

F – Parts of mammals357

S – Crowns, dress, staves, etc.347

N – Sky, earth, water319

T – Warfare, hunting, butchery288

U – Agriculture, crafts, and professions270

R – Temple furniture and sacred emblems266

I – Amphibious animals, reptiles, etc.260

V – Rope, fibre, baskets, bags, etc.239

P – Ships and parts of ships238

B – Woman and her occupations207

Aa – Unclassified200

W – Vessels of stone and earthenware189

Q – Domestic and funerary furniture88

Z – Strokes, geometrical figures, etc.85

H – Parts of birds63

L – Invertebrates and lesser animals49

Y – Writings, games, music47

K – Fish and parts of fish43

X – Loaves and cakes38

Words by Part of Speech

45,555 dictionary entries classified by grammar

Noun29,670

Verb10,472

Unknown3,045

Adjective1,362

Pronoun218

Adverb194

Other175

Preposition157

Particle107

Interjection57

Interrogative46

Imperative28

Numeral14

Conjunction10

Sign Functions

How glyphs are used: as logograms, phonograms, or determinatives

Logogram2,725

Phonogram1,740

Determinative1,928

Other447

Texts by Period

7 texts across Egyptian history

Old Kingdom1

Middle Kingdom2

New Kingdom4

Pharaohs by Period

230 rulers from Predynastic through Roman Egypt

Predynastic7

Early Dynastic19

Old Kingdom32

1st Intermediate24

Middle Kingdom15

2nd Intermediate16

New Kingdom33

3rd Intermediate22

Late Period30

Ptolemaic15

Roman17