Uri #Yiftach, from the #University of #TelAviv, one of the great papyrologists of our time, explaining his work on #MachineLearning to better understand ancient texts. Among the international audience there are #Muslims, participating in the discourse.
This is an essential part of the #THEuMa vision: #Science should contribute to #peace, not #boycott.
#Israel #Milano #Bicocca #THEuMaConference #THEuMa2025 #JeanMonnet #Erasmus #Law #Economics #History #Papyrology #EU #EuropeanUnion #Europa
How do we know the ancient names of ancient places? There are many sorts of sources.
Sometimes, accounting documents or fragments thereof survive and sometimes they contain lists of estates. Often, these names are difficult or impossible to identify with specific places. But not always.
Here's a newly published one on papyrus, probably written in in the late sixth or early seventh century CE, probably at Herakleopolis in Egypt. The modern authors of the article have not only provided a text, but also a commentary that connects what can be connected of the toponyms to other published work.
La’da, Csaba A., and Amphilochios Papathomas. “A New Greek Papyrus Fragment of an Account and a List of Toponyms from the Late Antique Herakleopolites.” TYCHE – Beiträge Zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie Und Epigraphik 38 (2023). https://doi.org/10.25365/tyche-2023-38-7.
new paper on #wikidata and #papyrology: Sahu-Hough, Jasmine Amara. „Parsing the Payri: The Potentials of Wikidata for Papyrologists“. International Journal of Information Science and Technology, Bd. 9, Nr. 1, 1, März 2025, S. 1–10. innove.org, https://doi.org/10.57675/IMIST.PRSM/ijist-v9i1.265.
EDIT: DOI doesn't seem to work, here's the URL: https://innove.org/ijist/index.php/ijist/article/view/265
November 26th, 244 BCE—#OTD #OnThisDay Philonikos writes to Eukles informing him about a matter in which a swineherd has accused someone of stealing and sacrificing one of his pigs for the festival of Demeter
https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.cair.zen;3;59350v #papyri #papyrology
Several of them were edited by my father, sometimes together with my mother. #papyrology
https://digipres.club/@ryanfb/113443324956150647
Roberta Mazza’s Stolen Fragments | Variant Readings
https://brentnongbri.com/2024/10/04/roberta-mazzas-stolen-fragments/ #papyrology
Currently reading:
City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egyp… https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/839760.The_City_of_the_Sharp_Nosed_Fish
A present by my mother, possibly in an attempt to make me understand why my parents devoted their lives to #papyrology
The Potential Early Papyrus Codex at Graz - Brent Nongbri https://brentnongbri.com/2024/02/15/the-potential-early-papyrus-codex-at-graz/ #papyrology
Alright, making a first pass at linking in the last few years' worth of #PublicDomain #Papyrology volumes in the papyri.info Checklist of Editions: https://papyri.info/docs/checklist
The way papyrologists reconstruct ancient texts based on tiny scraps of papyrus seems like sorcery.
And really, it is sorcery. But it also makes sense. Here's a look at an example from the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.
#hesiod #papyrology #papyri #greek #ancient
https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2023/12/reconstructing.html
We're about halfway through scanning our entire(!) #Papyrology Reading Room here at Duke (about 1,200 volumes). Uncontroversially #PublicDomain volumes are being added to the @internetarchive here: https://archive.org/details/papyrology #papyri #histodons
Proceedings of the 25th International Congress of #Papyrology
With Free PDF & Unicode Font!
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/i/icp
"Several months after it launched, a rocket scientist named Casey Handmer stared at the digital scans of the scrolls for hours, looking for clues. He noticed a “crackle pattern” that he thought might be ink. It was just a hypothesis and he shared it with other researchers.
Farritor, who was interning at SpaceX at the time, spent evenings using machine learning code to find more crackle, constantly refining the algorithm. Eventually, the crackle turned to complete letters. It turned out Handmer’s hypothesis was right. He shared his findings on Twitter.
The work inspired Youssef Nader, a biorobotics grad student in Berlin, who refined the process of discovering the letters with a more involved machine learning technique.
In a few months, a handful of people who had never worked in papyrology moved the field forward 20 years."
"For the first time, amateur researchers have deciphered letters on an unopened ancient scroll, using artificial intelligence to isolate the letters."
Cool!
"Perceptions of Writing in Papyri. Crossing Close and Distant Readings"
Online Conference 7-8 December 2023, Basel University
Argument: This online conference will analyze how digital culture has changed the perceptions of writing styles in #papyri.
#papyrology #DigitalHumanities
https://d-scribes.philhist.unibas.ch/en/events-1/papyri-conference/
The Date of the New Oxyrhynchus Sayings of Jesus P.Oxy. 87.5575 | Variant Readings
https://brentnongbri.com/2023/09/09/the-date-of-the-new-oxyrhynchus-sayings-of-jesus-p-oxy-87-5575/ #papyrology
📯 Now available in #OpenAccess📯
Giuditta Mirizio’s “Amministrare e comunicare nell’Egitto tolemaico - La funzione delle copie (antigrapha) nella documentazione papirologica”.
For those interested in #papyrology in our community, you might want to help the grammateus project improve the interface and functionalities of its website:
The website provides a typology of Greek Documentary #papyri, descriptions for each category of documents illustrated with examples from a database. Whether you are a papyrologist or not, you can help improve the website by taking this short and anonymous survey:
Ludwig and Margret regularly hosted students in their home, and Margret reminded Ludwig to keep the atmosphere on these occasions 'heimelig' and informal.
One of my first publications (on using Caracalla's imperial titulature to date two papyri) appeared in ZPE, a journal of which Ludwig was an editor. This publication would not have occurred without his encouragement.
Ludwig Koenen was a kindly and generous scholar, and I was fortunate to have studied with him.
Just learned of the passing yesterday evening of the eminent papyrologist Ludwig Koenen, who was my teacher as well as the chair of Michigan's Classical Studies department during my time there as a graduate student. He was 92.
Ludwig was a native of Köln who was educated at the city's university, where he studied under Reinhold Merkelbach. Ludwig was in his mid 40s when he left his native city for Ann Arbor, where he spent the rest of his career.
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