My research deals with variations within the Ancient Egyptian language, and how these variations could be used to aid the understanding of Ancient Egypt. My current focus is on the study of variation in classification as part of the iClassifier project in the ArchaeoMind Lab.  The project mission is to create network mapping of the mind of ancient cultures (Egyptian, Sumerian, and ancient Chinese) according to the classifier systems of their scripts. Additionally, I do research in the field of hieroglyphic signs and sign-lists as part of the Thot Sign List and I have worked in Berkley in collaboration with Google on the upcoming hieroglyphic repertoire extension for Unicode.

Advisor: Prof. Orly Goldwasser

Research interests:

Middle Kingdom mortuary corpus of the Coffin Text, with forays into mortuary texts from other periods and temple inscriptions from the Graeco-Roman period in Egypt. Additionally, keen interest in digital humanities and how this can be used to further the field by employing methods from other disciplines.

Projects:

The Thot Sign List. An open digital repertoire of hieroglyphic signs, Liege & Berlin, https://thotsignlist.org/

Identification and verification of Ptolemaic signs for Unicode proposal project, Berkely

Publications:

Jorke Grotenhuis, Mark-Jan Nederhof, Encoder les textes hiéroglyphiques; Encoding hieroglyphic texts, Guide des écritures de l'Egypte antique, IFAO; Handbook of Ancient Egyptian writing systems, IFAO, 2022 p. 180-181.

Stéphane Polis, Luc Desert, Peter Dils, Jorke Grotenhuis, Vincent Razanajao, Tonio Sebastian Richter, Serge Rosmorduc, Simon D. Schweitzer, Daniel A. Werning, Jean Winand, The Thot Sign List (TSL). An open digital repertoire of hieroglyphic signs, ENiM 14, 2021, p. 55-74.

Andrew Glass, Jorke Grotenhuis, Mark-Jan Nederhof, Stéphane Polis, Serge Rosmorduc, Daniel A. Werning, Additional control characters for Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, 2021, https://hdl.handle.net/2268/288563

Jorke Grotenhuis, Geographical verbal variation in Dendera: An exploratory study in verbal variation between east and west in offering texts from Graeco-Roman temples in Dendera, Lingua Aegyptia 27, 2019, p. 61-76.

Jorke Grotenhuis, Regional variation in the Coffin Texts, A study of sentence structure, verbal structure and graphical forms, unpublished PhD manuscript, 2021, http://hdl.handle.net/2268/256403

Jorke Grotenhuis, Visualisation of regional variation in the Coffin Texts: A case study of spell 75, ICYE 2019 proceedings, In Press.

Jorke Grotenhuis, Brilliant corruptions: scribal influence on transmission variation in the Coffin Texts. ZAeS, In Press.

Jorke Grotenhuis, First-person singular stative endings in the Coffin Texts: the case for regional conditioned variation, The Mortexvar Conference publication, In press.