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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 4h

tories have this duality where they will thunder about humanities degrees being rip-off waste of time but will tell starry-eyed how you Boris Johnson is a genius because he memorised the first six lines of the Iliad in Greek, which you can in fact do without even knowing Greek

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 4h

Sims-Williams & de Blois (2018) spotted.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting new, open access article in Greece & Rome blends epigraphy, poetry on stone (Greek epigrams), and tracing ethnicity:

“Dying Greek in Rome: Greek Funerary Epigrams from Imperial Rome” www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I love this: ‘κάλλος δ’ αὖ μετὰ μοῖραν Ἀμαζόνος ἔσχεν ἄπιστον’

Figure 1. Migration to Rome in the Greek epigrams from Rome (n = 46).

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

Some more context from Hawkins & Weeden (2024) Corpus of Hieroglyphic Luwian Inscriptions. Volume III: Inscriptions of the Hittite Empire and New Inscriptions of the Iron Age. Berlin: De Gruyter, p.593.

Logograms with unknown or uncertain readings (p.593)

MONS2, mountain-man (L.4.1–3)

EMPIRE

(1) MONS2+tu, RN Tudhaliya (IV): YAZILIKAYA, nos. 64, 83; seals: SBo I, 63; NİŞANTEPE 2, nos. 89–94, 96–98, 100, 102–109;
alternates with MONS+tu (see L.207).
(2) MONS2 AVIS3-nu(wa)-tá, RN Arnuwanda (III): seals, SBo I, 64; NİŞANTEPE 2, nos. 138–140.
(3) On back of stag: apparently not mountain-man, but deity representing Stag-God (so accoutred): SCHIMMEL rhyton,
ALTINYAYLA stele, NİŞANTEPE, nos. 136, 482 (= SBo II, 222); NİŞANTEPE, nos. 185–187 have long skirts but not scaled as
mountain men; only NEWELL shows scaled skirt. The deity represented is Kuruntiya (DN, PN).

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

For now here's the weird little guy in question.

It's an Anatolian Hieroglyph (UTF-8 ID F0949083) of a man with arms upraised wearing a kilt and a tall pointy hat.

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

I'll change it back to something more reasonable later.

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

Finally broke iOS by putting Luwian Hieroglyphs in my profile name.

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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 1d

I don't like John Wick because he dethroned Star Trek's Worf as the most famous fictional Belarusian (let's face it, do you know many others)

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

This is probably a transfer of the concept of the land of the dead, since ‘the west (bank of the Nile)’ is always where burials took place and necropleis were constructed. It’s a whole thing in pre-Christian Egyptian eschatology.

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

Enjoy. I have literally not listened to anything other than their first two albums and haven’t kept up since then so I can’t vouch for anything after that.

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

I remember people used to talk shit about Wolves in the Throne Room for being American hipster black metal, but god damn Diadem of 12 Stars has held up better than most of the shit people have nostalgia for from the 1990s.

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

I haven't a clue, but knowing Annie I'm sure she would know or would be able to find out.

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

I have no idea, but maybe Rix or Meiser have some more recent info on this.

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

Gerhard Meiser did a more recent editio minor of the texts in 2014 though. That'd be the more recent place to check: catalogue.leidenuniv.nl/permalink/31...

catalogue.leidenuniv.nl

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

The only input I can give on this at the moment is that annoyingly the one page of Rix's Etruskische Texte that covers Africa (p.335) is not available on Google Books (but the following page 336 is) books.google.dk/books?id=g-G...

Etruskische Texte: Texte

books.google.dk

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 1d

Curses!

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

I see British children's television continues to be terrifying and strange.

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 2d

in the future due to internet shortages everyone will have to palimpsest old posts to make new ones, and 2000 years from now we will have academics who are super excited about finding part of a lost dril tweet or a hitherto undiscovered alf hog reference underneath an argument on moderation policy

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

I'm stoked for the inevitable new post-apocalyptic religion that does Sortes Vergilianae using dril tweets.

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

My thoughts exactly.

Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 2d

It would be nice if I could take a holiday instead of organising an international move and writing this final report. I would like that a lot.

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Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social · 2d

If you remember last autumn when I was live-skeeting excavations at Rossano di Vaglio, the first report of that work has just been published (in Italian). Happy for it to see the light of day, and also very pleased to present five new Oscan inscriptions to the world...
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#ArchaeologyBluesky

Rossano di Vaglio, santuario italico: cronaca e nuovi dati dalla campagna di scavo del 2024 | Quaderni di ACMA

acma-digitale.it

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Isabel Köster @iotasubscript.bsky.social · 2d

Fresh Oscan #epigraphy just in time for Monday breakfast!

Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social · 2d

If you remember last autumn when I was live-skeeting excavations at Rossano di Vaglio, the first report of that work has just been published (in Italian). Happy for it to see the light of day, and also very pleased to present five new Oscan inscriptions to the world...
🏺
#ArchaeologyBluesky

Rossano di Vaglio, santuario italico: cronaca e nuovi dati dalla campagna di scavo del 2024 | Quaderni di ACMA

acma-digitale.it

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Ματθαῖος ὁ Οὔτινος @nyom-klyu.bsky.social · 2d

You can't convince me that these are the real names of the authors of this study. Harder & Kock (1976) isn't real.

Travaux du cercle linguistique de Copenhague Vol. XVII

The Theory of Presupposition Failure

By Peter Harder and Christian Kock.

Cover art includes a speech bubble with the phrase "When did you stop beating your wife?"

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Matthew Scarborough 𔐃 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 3d

(More-or-less, give-or-take)

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