Register Studies in Egyptology: A Conceptual History and Critical Review

Survey data — Svenja Damm & Tobias Paul, Lingua Aegyptia (forthcoming)

230 Egyptological publications that engage with register or a related notion of situational-functional variation, each classified by how it handles the term — and the citation network among them: 1466 citations across 256 works, the surveyed ones and those they cite.

Citation network explorer

One network, switchable layers: arrange it by anchoring and year, by year against how often a work is cited, by citing against being cited, by citation community, or on a single time line with arcs. Colour by anchoring, community, co-citation circle or role; filter by year, by anchoring, by citation count. Hovering a work shows what cites it and what it cites, in two colours.

Redrawn classics

Sethe 1925, Stricker 1944, Junge 1984 and 1985, Polis 2018 — the five models the article discusses, drawn afresh from the original publications by Amnah El-Shiaty and free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, at full resolution and at 300 dpi.

The data

• bibliography.csv · bibliography.bib — the 230 titles with their bibliographic fields and their tags on five axes, keyed by Citavi citation key, so the references in the article resolve against them
• taxonomy.csv — the complete category tree behind those tags, one row per category with axis, depth and path

Not here: the abstracts and the assessment field of the working database, both third-party text, and the titles screened but not included.

The network

• Authors, not works — the same citations aggregated to the 118 people behind the 230 titles. This is the level at which §§ 4–5 argue and on which the brokerage values of Fig. 3 are computed; the explorer above stays at the level of the individual study. Search a name, hide the weaker links
• That author network as data: citation-network.gexf · author-metrics.csv, and the subgraph behind the reception values of Fig. 3, citation-network-reception.gexf
• For Gephi, the same network with positions and colours already written into the file, one per arrangement: anchoring lanes · authority · roles · communities · co-citation
• Anchoring over time — the citations at the level of individual studies, coloured by how the term is anchored and arranged by year (Gephi file)

The figures

File names count the figures produced here; the article numbers them differently, and both are given. Each comes as PNG at 600 dpi and as PDF, in colour and in the greyscale version used in print (_bw).

The scripts

The analysis that produces all of the above is in scripts/, with a walkthrough that says of each script what it reads and what it writes. They read the Citavi project, which is not published, so they will not run as they stand; they are there so that the method can be inspected. Their comments are in German — hence the walkthrough.

Licence

Everything here is CC0 1.0 — use it for anything, without asking and without attribution. The one exception is figures/redrawn/: those five drawings are © Amnah El-Shiaty under CC BY 4.0, which does ask for the credit line. Full wording in LICENSE.

Citing this

Attribution is not required, but a citation is welcome. Cite the tagged state, not the branch — the default branch keeps moving: https://scm.cms.hu-berlin.de/paultobi/register_in_egyptology/-/tree/lingaeg-2026. The figures and counts in the article rest on the tag lingaeg-2026. Published state of this page: lingaeg-2026.