This repository contains several SVG and STL files for an ancient egyptian hieroglyphic alphabet.

A few days ago, I wanted to 3D-print the name of my wife in egyptian hieroglyphs as a surprize gift - but none of the already existing STL file sets really convinced me. As a consequence, I did some research, extracted single hieroglyphs from images I could find, simplified and vectorized them and finally converted the resulting SVG files into a format suitable for stereo litography.

These STL files may now easily be imported into many 3D modeling tools (including TinkerCAD and most 3D printer slicers) and combined in whatever form you like.

Please note: there seem to be several variants of an "egyptian alphabet" - not even counting the "Gardiner list" with hundreds of different hieroglyphs. The set shown below is a mixture of several alphabets I found during my research - please, do not take it too seriously: this set has been build for your pleasure only!

A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
I	J	K	L	M	N	O	P
Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X
Y	Z	CH	KH	SH

The following tools helped me generating the desired STL files:

• Photoline for image preparation
• Bildvektorisierer for image vectorization
• svg2stl for the final conversion into STL format (online)

MIT License