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When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age

Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 2d

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…a meeting this Wednesday to look at ways in which librarians and the Digital Classicist Wiki could help each other. What resources in library catalogues could also be listed in the #digiclasswiki? What content in the Wiki could inform library resources/practice/training?

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 2d

If you work in a classics library, as the classics librarian in a general academic library, in any research library or heritage institution that contains some classics content, or are in any capacity involved in cataloguing or taxonomising ancient world data, you may be interested in…
#digiclasswiki

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 5d

Only a few tickets left for the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @dh-researchhub.bsky.social Annual Digital Lecture.
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Copenhagen),
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Nov 20, 18:00–20:00, University of London. Book now www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

www.sas.ac.uk

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 5d

Only a few tickets left for the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @dh-researchhub.bsky.social Annual Digital Lecture.
Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Copenhagen),
When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age
Nov 20, 18:00–20:00, University of London. Book now www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age

www.sas.ac.uk

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 5d

The Cutting Edge: Conversations in Epigraphy

Wedensday 29 October 2025, 5:00PM - 6:00PM. Alex A. Antoniou (University of Glasgow), Embracing and Encoding Uncertainty and Ambiguity: Emperor Worship and EpiDoc.
ics.sas.ac.uk/events/embra...

Embracing and Encoding Uncertainty and Ambiguity: Emperor Worship and EpiDoc

The Tablet Box in Context: Epigraphic Perspectives on the Construction of Historical Knowledge in Ancient Assyrian

Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 5d

The Cutting Edge: Conversations in Epigraphy

Wednesday 15 October 2025, 5:00PM - 6:00PM. Ben Dewar (ICS), The Tablet Box in Context: Epigraphic Perspectives on the Construction of Historical Knowledge in Ancient Assyrian.
ics.sas.ac.uk/events/table...

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 5d

RIP Gaius Cassius Longinus, noble tyrannicide and conspirator in the assassination of Caesar. Died #onthisday 2067 years ago, after defeat at the Battle of Philippi. (He was later presented rather unsympathetically by both Dante and Shakespeare.)

Classics Libraries and the Digital Classicist Wiki

Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 6d

Furious

Screenshot from the Wordiply online game. Guess: "PROTOGORGONEION" (15). Response: "not in word list".

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 6d

Online event: Classics Libraries and the Digital Classicist Wiki. Wednesday October 8, 14:00 BST. ics.sas.ac.uk/events/class...

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 10d

RIP Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus ("Pompey the Great"), one of several would-be dictators and oligarchs put down in the first century BCE. Executed by the king of Egypt #onthisday 2073 years ago. 🪓

Appendix: Aligning EpiDoc with Mycenaean usage (Wingspread Conventions)

Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 12d

(3) Appendix: Aligning EpiDoc with Mycenaean usage (Wingspread Conventions) epidoc.stoa.org/gl/latest/ap... (by Federico Aurora and others), super-useful concordance aligning traditional transcription, snippet of EpiDoc XML, example tablets (most with photos), and links to Guidelines.
#TEIFriday

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Appendix: Aligning EpiDoc with ORACC

Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 12d

(2) Appendix: Aligning EpiDoc with ORACC epidoc.stoa.org/gl/latest/ap... – this is an incomplete concordance that Eleanor Robson and I started several years ago (and really should finish one day!) aligning both print Cuneiform conventions and ORACC's ATF with EpiDoc Guidelines.
#TEIFriday

epidoc.stoa.org

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 12d

Some of my favourite parts of the EpiDoc Guidelines:

(1) Appendix: Aligning EpiDoc with Egyptological philological markup epidoc.stoa.org/gl/latest/ap... (by Daniel A. Werning). This page shows traditional philological transcription + equivalent EpiDoc Guidelines for Egyptian epigraphy.
#TEIFriday

Appendix: Aligning EpiDoc with Egyptological philological markup

epidoc.stoa.org

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Durham Classics and Ancient History @durhamclassics.bsky.social · 13d

💥 Congratulations to Dr @carolinebarron.bsky.social , who has a new publication in the journal 'Libyan Studies'!

👉 Dr Barron reassess 53 Latin, Greek and Latino-Punic inscriptions from a late-antique tomb excavated in 1926 at Sirte, Libya

🔗 Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1017/lis....

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 14d

Street art and civil society in post-2011 Tunisia: aesthetics, civic engagement and organisational challenges
Anwar Tlili (KCL).

A free webinar hosted by the British Institute of Libyan and Northern African Studies. Sep 25 at 17:00 BST. Open to all. Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Street art and civil society in post-2011 Tunisia: aesthetics, civic engagement and organisational challenges. After registering, you will receive a confirm...

Follow post-2011 historical developments in the street art scene in Tunisia, from its expansion in the wake of the 2011 Uprising to its significant contraction under the Islamist government in the mid...

us02web.zoom.us

Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 15d

#EpigraphyTuesday
The text is also super-readable from the photograph (poor quality scan below), a lovely example of archaic scripts (upright zeta, square eta, H-heta) and other semi-phonetic epigraphic (mis)spellings, and a great introduction to epigraphic verse for keen students.

Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 15d

#EpigraphyTuesday
Baby-me was of course tickled by the (almost) Homeric name, but also by the monumental curse almost two centuries before otherwise attested in Greek, including formulaic language that recurs in fourth-century and later curses (and echoes Babylonian language of a millennium earlier)

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 15d

IG XII,1 737 - PHI Greek Inscriptions

Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 15d

#EpigraphyTuesday
Back when I was writing a chapter on ancient curses (itself an ancient time, as our students today would reckon it), I came across what was one of my favourite inscriptions: IG XII.1.737 (epigraphy.packhum.org/text/139285). The "Idameneus curse".

epigraphy.packhum.org

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 15d

Happy 810th birthday to Kublai Khan, grandson of a legendary warrior who emerged victorious from fractious succession struggles to found a new imperial system and dynasty. Born #onthisday 1215 CE.

Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 15d

Happy 2088th birthday to Augustus, son of a legendary warrior who emerged victorious from fractious succession struggles to found a new imperial system and dynasty. Born #onthisday 63 BCE.

Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 17d

RIP Publius Vergilius Maro, known to us as Virgil, author of the Aeneid (and several collections of shorter poems), who died #onthisday 2044 years ago.