Monday, August 22, 2005
In my updates to the various ancient Egyptian entries on Wikipedia, I've been frustrated by not being able to add in a couple of instances the proper fivefold titulary titles/names for a given Egyptian ruler. We typically know the kings by their nomen, which was their birth name. But they typically had another four "names", a couple of which were standard titles of kingship, and were known to their own people during their reign as pharaoh primarily via their Horus name.
I put in a request for such a hieroglyphic template with the people who had done the previous set, but didn't hear back. So after putting the kids to bed last night I decided to hack away at a pre-existing template and see whether I could modify it so that would look and work properly. This is the result.
It is still far from perfect -- in fact I am pretty sure the Horus name (the first one, contained in the serekh), should always be written vertically, but I gather that the means for rendering hieroglyphic text on the Wikipedia server doesn't allow for that. That may be something I can play around with in the future, since it is all based on PHP apparently.
No examples using this template as yet, but at least now I (and anybody else on Wikipedia, for that matter) have something to work with.
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