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Huw TD

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At Southampton there is a house I have admired, because from the side it looks so flat. Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester Egyptian literature, literacy, textual transmission, and religion. 🏳️‍🌈

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · Nov 14

Out in print today: The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/transmiss...

Also available Open Access from the Bloomsbury website

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James Oswald @sirbenfro.bsky.social · 21h

Normalise admitting you don't know enough about a subject to form an opinion of it.

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 2h

stop thinking right now

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 23m

Hey, some of us didnt need twitter...

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 36m

Into what pit thou seest / From what highth fall'n...

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 21d

"Yogurt is excellent for the stomach, the kidneys, the appendicitis, and apotheosis."
- Ionescu, 'The Bald Soprano'

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 44m

The Balding Primadonna strikes again.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 44m

Brekekex throw-axe, throw-axe

Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 11h

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 3h

people will be like 'we've digitised these manuscripts, thus preserving them!' sorry mate if you want to preserve the data on your server copy it out onto parchment, the chats on your server won't survive as a paste-down in an old gradual stuffed on a shelf in a damp cellar for 1700 years

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 13h

Look at us, spending to prop up the economy! Not like the feckless youth, who are *checks notes* spending too much money and not saving up.

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Son of Bengt @sonofbengt.bsky.social · 17h

I try my best not to
#TOTP

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Ancient Egyptian Prayer Bot @egyptianprayerbot.bsky.social · 18h

The voice goes forth, and the earth is inundated with silence, for the Sole One came into existence in the sky before the plains and the mountains existed. (BDF)

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Tales from the Two Lands @talestwolands.bsky.social · 22h

This is a delightful pot, painted with a drake (as in male duck, not dragon) as the centrepiece of the decoration. It’s about 16cm tall (a little over 6 inches) and was found at Abydos by the EEF (now EES) excavations in 1904. 🧵1/4

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A photograph of an ancient Egyptian pot. It is round bottomed and narrows from a widest point at about ¼ of the way up towards the neck. The neck itself does not continue to narrow & is a straight sided cylinder. The pot itself is a reddish brown in colour but not much of that is showing because it is painted. The decoration looks a bit like a broad collar necklace around the shoulders of the pot (leaving the neck bare) coming to about ¼ of the way down, and there is a bib with further decoration running from this to about the widest point of the pot. The decoration is painted with a white background, and the collar part has lots of vertical blue stripes as well as a yellow, red and blue horizontal strip. The bib is outlined with blue and red lines, and the centre has a drawing of a duck with a white body, a blue head, yellow & red wings, and red legs. Surrounding the duck are a few lotus flower motifs and a basket with two eggs.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

He should be glad it wasn't the Bald Soprano.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, i was going to post this as a response based on UK teaching (but with a fairly substantial international cohort, esp. among my mature students.
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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

I teach students 18-80 (give or take) and find very little difference in the degree or quality of reading they do - or indeed of the writing.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

What if, our hour come round at last, we slouched towards election?

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

I teach students 18-80 (give or take) and find very little difference in the degree or quality of reading they do - or indeed of the writing.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Those who built tombs,
Their places are gone.
What has become of them?
I have heard the words of Imhotep and Hordedef,
Whose sayings are recited everywhere.
What of their places?
Their walls have crumbled,
Their places gone,
As though they never existed.
(Etc.)

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Yes! The one where the interviewer sketches his face? Apparently it was considered incredibly disrespectful when it aired.

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asif-cx1.bsky.social @asif-cx1.bsky.social · 2d

Edith Sitwell 1923–35.

By Wyndham Lewis (1882–1957)

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Actually a better example is Waugh, who has a surprisingly reedy, high-pitched voice.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

And, you know, not remotely American.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

This is often the way with authors, I think. E.g., TS Eliot's recordings of his own poetry, where he sounds bored by it.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Dare we proceed by analogy with Ralph Roister Doister?

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

"Dabba" is clearly hypercorrection after dittography.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

Singing “this is crazy?! Everybody is so famous?!” When I walk into the house of the dead (ereshkigal) wearing the clothes and perfumes I wore in life and am swarmed and consumed by the shades therein

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