https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01407-2
Two researchers in the field of machine learning have won US$60,000 for being the first to reveal the title and author of a sealed papyrus scroll carbonized by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in AD 79. The crucial lines identify the work as part of On Vices by the Greek philosopher Philodemus.
#Antike #pompeii #science #wissenschaft #papyri
I'm currently beaming in to #ISAWNYU PhD candidate Amber Jacob's public dissertation defense in which she's giving us a peek at the heretofore unpublished, fragmentary corpus of Demotic medical texts on papyrus (originating in Tebtunis) that she's edited and translated. To date only 5 demotic medical papyri have ever been published. She says probably 8 distinct manuscripts are represented in the Tebtunis material, comprising what appears to have been a collected medical compendium with some information concerning the identity of the original ancient compiler.
Jacob's text edition will appear in due time in the Carlsberg Papyri Series as P.Tebt.Med.dem.
SciTech Chronicles. . . . . . . . .April 26th, 2025
#MitoBrainMap #distribution #density #diversity #BOD2 #drive-thru #"$1.2 Million" #Peri #Smog #Sundhnukagigar #"acid rain" #PM2.5 #" Mount Vesuvius" #papyri #8-micrometer #Philodemus #lightning #"gamma radiation" #TGFs #TLEs
since searching the internet is useless nowadays… i wanted to throw this out there…
is anyone familiar with translations of / resources for #Queer content found in the #Antinoopolis - #Oxyrhynchus #Papyri
inquiring minds want to know 🔺 🦄 🤷🏽
#Art #QueerHistory #LGBTQ #LGBT #LGBTQIA #Trans #History #Sociology #Archeology
Happy #Valentine’s Day!
Aequus Nox invited me on the inaugural episode of her re-launched podcast to talk about the history of “love #magic”, and boy howdy, do I have some opinions.
Join us as we talk about erotic binding spells in the Egyptian magical #papyri and later #grimoires, deities both romantic and necromantic, and just what does February 14 have to do with love, anyway?
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
Sharing from the Coptic Magical Papyri project: "For anyone in need of some Hallowe'en reading, there is a 40% discount on any De Gruyter and Brill titles (including the first volume of Papyri Copticae Magicae) with the code DGBSPOOKY, until midnight of the 31st October!" https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111080109/html?fbclid=IwY2xjawGQi8JleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHTCsEpJP0vm8-ntw9INS2o6rI2owD8p619B7G4kgLth0hdzGYV9YYU0KUg_aem_mZtpFNWikQWGa_UDKGh4NA #coptic #magic #papyri
I added a few pages to #Griffe's docs: alternative projects, downstream projects, and built-in/official/third-party extensions.
Very cool projects mentioned in there! #Docspec, #pdoc, #papyri, #quartodoc, etc. And I discovered a few Griffe extensions in the process, it's awesome 🤩
- https://mkdocstrings.github.io/griffe/alternatives/
- https://mkdocstrings.github.io/griffe/downstream-projects/
- https://mkdocstrings.github.io/griffe/extensions/built-in/
A COVID-19 Monday Miscellany (gack!).
This week:
- Seven Trumpets
- NT #papyri
- Book reviews: #Didache, #Russian history
Please read, share, and subscribe!
Wie liest man fragile antike #Papyri, die beschädigt würden, wenn man sie aufblätterte?
Im @Tagesspiegel U. Badelt wie die aktuelle #Elephantine Ausstellung der Staatlichen Museen Berlin neue Methoden präsentiert, mit dieser Herausforderung umzugehen:
This is freaking unbelievable! Scientists are able to read unrolled charcoaled #papyri from #Herculaneum
Insights into the composition of ancient #Egyptian red and black inks on #papyri achieved by synchrotron-based microanalyses
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2004534117
PapPal facilitates the study of ancient #writing by collecting images of dated #papyri. Its aim is to illustrate the development and diversity of ancient #scripts, and to assist in dating undated texts.
https://www.pappal.info/
Bookmarked: grammateus. The Architecture of Documentary Papyri https://grammateus.unige.ch/home #Digital_Humanities #Papyri
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
This is a reminder for the online #conference «Perceptions of Writing in #Papyri. Crossing Close and Distant Readings», organized from Basel University, on
7-8 December.
Program and inscription:
https://d-cribes.philhist.unibas.ch/en/events-1/papyri-conference/
Livestreamed conference: Synchronic and diachronic issues of Postclassical Greek
A livestream will be available for this linguistics conference hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki that runs from TOMORROW through Saturday (12-14 October 2023).
Many papers deal with the Roman period and Egyptian papyri.
Full information, including abstracts and link to the livestream, may be found here:
Relevant to #Egyptology -
The #Oxyrhynchus #Papyri Collection
https://oxyrhynchus.web.ox.ac.uk/
There's a new informational website for the Oxyrhynchus #Papyri at https://oxyrhynchus.web.ox.ac.uk, replacing the old website (http://www.papyrology.ox.ac.uk/POxy/), which is no longer available. the images of the Oxyrhynchus papyri have now been migrated to Oxford's Sustainable Digital Scholarship platform & are no longer accessible on the old database and are searchable via the above new website as well. SDS now also hosts images of P.Nekr. and the Bodleian facsimiles of the Herculaneum papyri. (Via Classicists-l)
