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Les Monuments ayyoubides de Damas in AMAR
Les Monuments ayyoubides de Damas in AMAROne of a series of AWOL pages seeking to pull together publication series digitized and served through AMAR: Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Site Reports...
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This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi nonas martias
ante diem vi nonas martias Festival of Mars (Day 2) c. 55 A.D. (?) — birth of Decimus Junius Juvenalis … a.k.a. Juvenal 258 A.D. — Martyrdom of Jovinus and Basileus at Rome
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Nuntii Latini (YLE) ~ 02/03/2012
[I'm trying to remember why I stopped posting these directly] Listen as you read … Novus praesidens munus suscepit Kalendis Martiis Sauli Niinistö, praesidens suffragio populi designatus,...
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Another Homerathon in the Works
From an Illinois Wesleyan press release: On Wednesday, March 21, the Illinois Wesleyan Greek and Roman Studies Program will present its first marathon reading of Homer’s epic poem, the Odyssey, in...
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Friday Varia and Quick Hits
It’s an overcast, but vaguely warm Friday morning here in North Dakotaland. We managed to miss the storms this week and had only a few inches on a blustery and snowy weekend. As spring sits poised on...
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Podcast 6.10: Judean Immigrant Associations, part 2
This episode continues the discussion of Judean immigrant associations, turning to archeological evidence for assimilation and integration in the Roman era. This is part of series 6 (Associations in...
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Was Thaddaeus Jesus’ Original Drummer, or his Secretary of Housing and Urban...
In my historical Jesus class yesterday, one of the topics was the twelve apostles. When the fact came up that there are discrepancies between the names listed in various Gospels, I suggested that one...
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IDP (Integrating Digital Papyrology) enhancing PN (Papyrological Navigator)
IDP UpdatesThis just sent to papylist:= = =Colleagues:I write with news of recent IDP updates. Frequent users will have noticed already that we have just released significant enhancements to PN search...
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Grabby Oiks Both Sides of the Pond
.Heritage Action has spotted the latest ACCG position on artefact hunting. Tompa thinks concern about archaeological preservation has only 'Snob Appeal', and by "putting American metal detectorists in...
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Initial evaluation of user needs for the Pelagios apps and widgets
This is the second in a series of posts about users’ requirements for Pelagios apps and widgets. The first post set the scene, and this one describes some of our initial findings from the "super user"...
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Analecta Papyrologica XXI-XXII (2009-2010)
INDICE GENERALEHerwig Maehler L’avenir de la papyrologie grecque … 7 The future of Greek papyrology … 9Luciano Canfora ΟΥΚ ΕΣΤΙΝ Ο ΤΥΧΩΝ ΚΟΠΟΣ: ovvero Pontani iuniore alle prese con...
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The Ugaritica volumes are now online at the Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Site Reports (AMAR) website. The Ancient World Online has the most convenient links to the individual volumes. But do...
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Wisconsin student punished over speaking in family's Native American language...
.Wisconsin GOP has passed a "collectors' rights" resolution, making it the Lootier State. Collectors and dealers claim that US private citizens is a way to fuller intercultural understanding, so in the...
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New volume of Vesuviana out
The third issue of Vesuviana is out these days. Here is the content (abstracts available on the editor's site) :Fabrizio Pesando,Ruinae et Parietinae Pompeianae. Distruzioni e abbandoni a Pompei...
View ArticleHear Me Now: My WNYC Commentary on the Shepard Fairey Case
I finally did manage to obtain the audio for my very brief soundbite heard last Friday on New York Public Radio, WNYC, regarding Shepard Fairey's guilty plea to criminal charges involving his...
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The Appropriator Appropriated: Fairey-like images of Steve Jobs and Ron Paul (not to mention the famously exploited Robert Indiana "Love") being sold by a vendor recently in front of the Metropolitan...
View ArticleFrom my diary
I’ve been working on OCR’ing Theodoret’s Commentary on Romans, from the 1839 issue of the Christian Remembrancer. I’m most of the way through this, although no clue as yet to the translator. Notes...
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E-Mail Slipup Judge in Artefacts Case
.A Bush-appointed US judge who it now turns out has amazing bad judgement when it comes to sharing political email jokes about the President and choosing his friends was involved in an interesting...
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Archaeology in the News!
An announcement by Dr. James Tabor and filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici that they had discovered of the earliest Christian inscriptions and imagery at a tomb in the suburbs of Jerusalem raised controversy...
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Painting with sound from Stonehenge to Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza. by Uspn (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), via Wikimedia CommonsBy Alan S. Brown, ISNS Contributor Inside Science News Service Stone Age cave paintings evoke reverent silence in...
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