Dating Egyptian Literary Texts: Lexical Approaches
1. Dating Egyptian literary texts:
lexical approaches
Simon D. Schweitzer
BBAW, Altägyptisches Wörterbuch
2. Concept of the life span
Timeline --------------------------------------------->
Word 1 --------------------------------------
Word 2 ---------------------------
Word 3 -------------------------
Word 4 ---------------------------
Word 5 -----------------------
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12. Principles for a lexical dating
method
• Use all words!
• Note the frequency!
• Neglect the life span!
13. 3 documents
• A: I am in the house. You are outside the
house.
• B: This house is green.
• C: John eats the cake.
14. Indexing
• A: I am in the house. You are outside the house.
• Index: I, be, in, the, house, you, outside
15. General index
• I, be, in, the, house, you, outside, this,
green, John, eat, cake
16. Document vector
• I, be, in, the, house, you, outside, this, green, John, eat, cake
• (1|2|1|2|2|1|1|0|0|0|0|0)
• I am in the house. You are outside the house.
17. Document vector
• I, be, in, the, house, you, outside, this, green, John, eat, cake
• (0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|1)
• Cake Cakes