Shenute AI

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THOTH AI Credits and Technical Specifications

Credits, base stack, and source materials behind the THOTH AI expert mode.

Credits

Dr. So Miyagawa

Associate Professor of Linguistics and Egyptology

University of Tsukuba

Dr. So Miyagawa is an associate professor of linguistics and Egyptology at the University of Tsukuba, specializing in the Ancient Egyptian-Coptic language. Following doctoral research at the University of Gottingen's Seminar for Egyptology and Coptic Studies, his work integrates computational linguistic methods with traditional philological approaches.

His research focuses on ancient and medieval Nile Valley languages, including Ancient Egyptian-Coptic, Old Nubian, Greek, Arabic, and Meroitic, as well as endangered languages in and around the Japanese Archipelago.

Contact: miyagawa.so.kb@u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Base Technology
  • Platform: Dify
  • Base LLM: Claude 4.5 Sonnet (upgraded from 3.5)
  • Architecture: RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation)
  • Natural Language Processing and OCR capabilities
Knowledge Base
  • Comprehensive Coptic Lexicon v1.2 (2020)
  • Burns, D., Feder, F., John, K., Kupreyev, M., et al.
  • Freie Universitat Berlin
  • A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian (1962)
  • Raymond Oliver Faulkner
  • Griffith Institute, Oxford
  • Custom instruction prompts (500 plus lines)
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Welcome to Shenute AI

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