Looking for Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Roman symbols

JimP · September 2013

They will be used on some GURPS Traveller worlds I want to detail.

So, if anyone knows of a web site, or has, Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Roman symbols I am very interested.

Also Auto Duel/Car Wars symbols are also needed.

Just about anything at this point would be useful.

Thanks !

KenG · September 2013

There was a font of Egyptian symbols that some one converted a while back for old school maps. I'll see if I can find it.
Ken

Henrie61 · September 2013

You can search the dundjinni forums, there are some symbols there.

http://www.dundjinni.com/

Wyvern · September 2013

JimP: There are already some "Classical" building symbols in CC3 you could use for Ancient Rome, as well as Middle Eastern buildings, a pyramid and an obelisk, for instance, but if you're looking for other items, it's probably worth checking some of the free Dingbat fonts available online, as these could provide the basis for more. There are especially a lot of useful Egyptian symbol fonts, which in various colours, or with coloured backgrounds or shapes around them, could work quite nicely - though it may depend on exactly what kind of style you were hoping for. There are also a few fonts using Classical illustrations of human and mythological figures too, which could prove equally adaptable.

I'm sure I came across some fonts with line drawings of vehicles at one stage, both in plan and side views, but wasn't looking for those, so didn't download them. Another option on the Car Wars front might be to use extracted images, or even tracings, from PDFs of paper models, either top-down counters, or side view standees. I'm not overly familiar with these, but it could be worth checking on the One Book Shelf (RPGNow/DriveThru RPG) sites, for example, for some.

JimP · September 2013

Room furniture, barn equipment, carts, wagons, things like that. Details of cities and towns. Due to the Kloodge works mention, i checked, and there are some cheap in cost symbols on rpgnow. I'm not sure what other items as documentaries on history channel don't cover such details.

sdavies2720 · September 2013

I did some symbols long long ago (before there was an automatic font conversion) for the second of John Csaky's symbol challenge. You can get them here:
http://www.nightsaroundthetable.com/maps/closedsc.htm#Downloads

Steve

JimP · September 2013

Thanks.

Wyvern · September 2013

That's quite a challenge Jim! Some of the room furniture and agricultural equipment especially would need detailed historical/archaeological research to bring to light from real-world sources, but that depends how "historically accurate" you need to be for Traveller-style settings, I guess.

Been offline most of this week, but DriveThru RPG was today showing me a new-since-last-visit top-down set of cars as clip-art from Avalon Games, which might be of use to you - if they'd fit well enough with your Car Wars needs.

JimP · September 2013

Well... I'm not worried about super accuracy for furniture and equipment. Something that resembles it would work fine.

A cart that could have been used by them, oxen, horses, chariots. I don't know much about their furniture even after watching archaeology shows on history channel.

Wyvern · September 2013

Just a thought, but have you checked through the main Profantasy site's "Map & Catalog Library" - http://www.profantasy.com/library/default.asp ?

Reason I ask is there are a couple of horse & cart top-down symbol sets there, including "Horses, Carriages and Cows" by Robert Merkstallinger:

http://www.profantasy.com/library/default.asp?PP=9&Start=145&Image=149&OrderBy= .

A lot of the symbol sets seem to have been designed for earlier versions of the software, but many are still readily usable, especially with the more "hand-drawn" symbol styles. If you haven't tried yet, there are 893 files available for download today (2013 Sep 30), but it is worth checking through them all, as you may find some of what you're looking for there (including some top-down cars) - if perhaps just the occasional symbol among a larger set. I downloaded a lot of these when I first started using CC3, and it still amazes me how much I find among them I'd forgotten about, or indeed that I've used from time to time, aside from the software originals.

On the Egyptian side, a quick hunt recalled "Near East Set 1" by Michael Dallaire, which might be of interest too:

http://www.profantasy.com/library/default.asp?PP=9&Start=820&Image=824&OrderBy=

although these two sets represent only a very brief, rather random, check this morning. Good luck!

JimP · September 2013

I have looked in there before... but haven't in the last 12 months. I'll check it again. Thanks !

JimP · October 2013

Posted By: WyvernThat's quite a challenge Jim! Some of the room furniture and agricultural equipment especially would need detailed historical/archaeological research to bring to light from real-world sources, but that depends how "historically accurate" you need to be for Traveller-style settings, I guess.

Been offline most of this week, but DriveThru RPG was today showing me a new-since-last-visit top-down set of cars as clip-art from Avalon Games, which might be of use to you - if they'd fit well enough with your Car Wars needs.

For Traveller, it would be over a thousand years into the future. So the items may be wrong, I just thought of that. Research for items from another planet, in my map case the part of the galaxy I'm mapping is 180 degrees from our solar system. So, their information on Ancient Rome and Ancient Egypt would very likely be a bit off.

The Empire, on my web site, will be based on Ancient Rome. Instead of chariot races, they will use Car Wars races to show their public at the Empire's capital planet.

Their competition, in another arm of the galaxy, will be based on Ancient Japan. Another empire will be based on Ancient Egypt.

Of course, I'll heavily modify things. Most low-level workers will be robots.

In the Traveller books few people are cyberized. The Ancient Japanese based area will have cyberized people, like Section 9, in 'Ghost in the Shell'.

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