Corpus Statistics
A quantitative overview of the PharaLex dataset — hieroglyphic signs, dictionary entries, ancient texts, and pharaohs across three millennia of Egyptian history.
𓊛
8,115
Hieroglyphs
𓏛
58,576
Dictionary Words
𓋹
230
Pharaohs
𓂋
7
Ancient Texts
Glyphs by Gardiner Category
26 categories, sorted by glyph count
A – Man and his occupations1,083
C – Anthropomorphic deities770
O – Buildings, parts of buildings, etc.606
D – Parts of the human body599
E – Mammals540
G – Birds517
M – Trees and plants417
F – Parts of mammals357
S – Crowns, dress, staves, etc.347
N – Sky, earth, water317
T – Warfare, hunting, butchery287
U – Agriculture, crafts, and professions268
R – Temple furniture and sacred emblems265
I – Amphibious animals, reptiles, etc.260
V – Rope, fibre, baskets, bags, etc.237
P – Ships and parts of ships236
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
58,576 dictionary entries classified by grammar
Noun39,139
Verb13,111
Unknown3,148
Adjective1,590
Pronoun361
Adverb326
Preposition309
Particle198
Other188
Interjection82
Interrogative52
Imperative32
Numeral30
Conjunction10
Sign Functions
How glyphs are used: as logograms, phonograms, or determinatives
Logogram2,724
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