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Photos: Tomb of Maya the Overseer of the Treasury
There is a new photo set of the Tomb of Maya the Overseer of the Treasury at Saqqara by Kate Gingell on Egyptological. Kate has also kindly provided a photo album of Horemheb's tomb at Saqqara as well...
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Time Travel and the Bible
The blog Unreasonable Faith shared this cartoon, a Bible/Back to the Future mash up:It would presumably have been worth posting just for its humor value, and because it brings together two major themes...
View ArticleHerculaneum paper on heritage values
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NPR interviews Talmud indexer
DANIEL RETTER is interviewed by NPR about his new index of the Babylonian Talmud: A Lawyer, Not A Sage, Creates Talmud Index. Excerpt from the transcript:RETTER: Well, it was a seven-year labor of...
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No 2012 Season in KV63
There is a short note on the KV63 site to say that the 2012 season is cancelled because Dr Otto Schaden is suffering from ill health. My best wishes to him. This article from News from the Valley of...
View ArticleThe modern way of death is cruel
They are an embarassment, the dead, in our modern society. Our masters prefer that the remains of the unimportant should vanish, it seems. Only the rich and powerful get graves today. When the girl...
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Fragmentary: Writing in a Digital Age
Here is an interesting article by Guy Patrick Cunningham on modern digital writing, which is fragmentary in all its forms: Fragmentary: Writing in a Digital Age (The Millions, 01, 2012). Here is a...
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Robert Garland (and others) at Udemy
From Colgate University: Forty-eight hours after posting his first installment of Ancient Greek Religion online at Udemy.com, Robert Garland had 99 viewers for his new video course. Garland, professor...
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Greek Gods on Fakebook
Not a type … saw this in the Gazette … an idea with potential: On her profile, Pandora agonizes about having opened the box. “I am so ashamed,” she writes, “I’ve opened the golden box and thousands of...
View ArticleSB 89 Creationism Bill Vote in Indiana Senate Monday
I received this e-mail from the NCSE, which I assume the author will not mind me reproducing here in order to get the word out as quickly and effectively as possible:Dear Indiana NCSE members and...
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Samnite Tombs Vandalized
I doubt this will make it to the English press, but it should … Corriere del Mezzogiorno relates how vandals/tombaroli broke into the archaeological zone at Santa Maria Capua Vetere — the ancient city...
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Open Access Journal: Didaskalia: The Journal for Ancient Performance
[First posted in AWOL 2 November 2009. Updated 27 January 2012. n.b. Founded in 1994, Didaskalia is a Pioneering Open Access Journal]Didaskalia: The Journal for Ancient PerformanceISSN:...
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Theft From Oplontis
It’s really depressing working through the backlog of Italian press articles tonight … Beyond the attention being paid to the Colosseum and its plight (which I’ll blog about soon … I promise) it’s...
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CFP: Logos, Mythos, Sophos (Warminster)
Seen on the Classicists list: CONFERENCE 2012 Friday, 29 June to Sunday, 1 July Ivy House, Warminster, Wiltshire, UK Logos, Mythos, Sophos : Reason and Myth in the Search for Wisdom The Platonic...
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Classicists Rule!!!
A couple of items of interest which coincidentaly passed under my caerulean gaze this week … first, one of the Discover Magazine blogs confirmed (based on GRE matters) what we all know (but which...
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Roman Provincial Coinage Online
Roman Provincial Coinage Online The aim of the project is to produce a standard typology of the provincial coinage of the Roman Empire in the period AD 138–192. Coins are mass-produced objects, so that...
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Publishing and the Early Career Classicist
I meant to post a link to this very useful pdf a while ago when it was making the rounds … here’s some background from the intro: This collection is based on presentations given at a half-day workshop...
View ArticleWho? Me?
I need to return Koch-Westenholz’ Babylonian Liver Omens to the library on Monday, so I thought I’d take another quick look at a couple of things that interested me in passing but to which I hadn’t...
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Nuns with Dirty Dishes
Archaeologists seem to have a love/hate relationship with sexuality. We are wary of the easy projection of modern sexual identification onto objects made in very different contexts in the past. On the...
View ArticleReview of Roberge, The Paraphrase of Shem
My review of Michel Roberge’s book The Paraphrase of Shem (NH VII,1): Introduction, Translation and Commentary has been published in Review of Biblical Literature. Click through if you’d like to read it.
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