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Ola Wikander

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Lundensian. Ugaritologist, Hebraist, Semitist, part IE-ist, author. PhD & Reader/Senior Lecturer, Lund. Ex Pro Futura fellow (Uppsala & Cambridge). Ordained in a rare religion. Abyssum per Sapientiam Linguā Incarnandō. Ola-Wikander-eng.se

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · Nov 18

Thread of all my currently published books! (1/x):

First:

"Unburning Fame: Horses, Dragons, Beings of Smoke, and Other Indo-European Motifs in Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible" (2017)

and

"Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel: A Philological and Comparative Study" (2014)

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 39m

And tvl must be short for tular ("border, limit")! Very cool.

Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 40m

The name of the guy is spacey: Vnata Zutas. Zutas does look like an Etruscan nomen gentile though (-as).

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 44m

Ah, Thanks for the revised transliteration! That makes more sense! Cool!

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 16h

And J. Maxwell Miller, who, iirc, thought Jebus was a *different* place than Jerusalem, but still a real place.

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 16h

Idea:
Version of the manga "Go! Go! Ackman" intended for specialists in Greek lyric poetry, called "Go! Go! Alcman".

Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 17h

(cf. Niels Peter Lemche)

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Mark Shockley @shjsat.bsky.social · 5d

Two ways to make passive verbs in Ruus Al Jibal:

1. Stem VII (yɨnCɨCɨC)
yōkɨl 'he eats' ➡️ yɨnwɨkɨl 'it gets eaten' √w-k-l

2. "Internal passive"
yōkɨl 'he eats' ➡️ yūkal 'it is eaten'

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Benjamin Suchard @bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 3d

This council could have been an ostracon

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 1d

Eblaite word of the day:
*ʕiṣ̂u(m) ("wood", spelt i-zu or ì-zu).

Train cars loaded with logs of wood, from Småland in Sweden.

Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 1d

As mentioned earlier, some of if the letters are weird and the transliteration even weirder. I must admit I am highly sceptical...

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the letters look... weird. The alleged "n", for example.

Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 1d

*look*

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 1d

The text (as opp. to letter forms) does not very Etruscan...

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 1d

(I would wager it's not, but...)

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 1d

Do you if it's in the CIE?

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 1d

I'll ask two people who know the corpus very well (Annie Burman and my dad) during the upcoming days.

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 2d

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.”

“But we can open the box,” said Toad.

“That is true,” said Frog.

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 3d

Han heter "Mumintrollet". Inte "Mumin". Slut på meddelandet.

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 5d

Ugaritic word of the day:
ntbt ("path, way, road").

Östra Mårtensgatan, a cobblestone street in Lund, under blue skies.

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 5d

Birgitta Stenberg är en av de svenskspråkiga författare jag håller högst. En makalöst badass person, och stilistiskt och tematiskt sett något som liknar ett slags korsning av Anaïs Nin och beatförfattarna. Inte direkt en dålig kombination.

Ett ex. av Birgitta Stenbergs bok "Rapport".

Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 5d

Ugaritic word of the day:
ntbt ("path, way, road").

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 8d

Revising an article manuscript after comments from the research seminar.

Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 8d

गणानां त्वा गणपतिं हवामहे
कविं कवीनामुपमश्रवस्तमम् ।
ज्येष्ठराजं ब्रह्मणां ब्रह्मणस्पत
आ नः शृण्वन्नूतिभिः सीद सादनम् ॥

Me in a mirror, wearing a black suit jacket and a T-Shirt with a red, stylized image of Gaṇeśa.

Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 8d

Please, remix guys on Youtube – state clearly if you just AI'd "your" work into existence. Don't hide behind vague Youtube labels which could mean anything.

Or even better: do the damn work yourselves. Sooooooo much AI music flooding Youtube, it's not even funny.

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 10d

Ugaritic word of the day:
tšỉḫrhm ("you hold them back, you delay them").

A spiked metal fence in front of trees and greenery, and an arched passage in the background.

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