Leah (she/her) | BLACK LIVES MATTER

Leah Packard-Grams
papyrologist and teahead

[Leah (she/her) | BLACK LIVES MATTER @papyromaniac]

crocodile mummies and ancient scribes.... 11/17 at 3pm in the basement of the Social Sci bldg! #tebtunis #papyrology #papyrus

[Leah (she/her) | BLACK LIVES MATTER @papyromaniac]

from Ann Arbor to Berkeley! Mark your calendars, and come to @UCBerkeleyLib !

[Leah (she/her) | BLACK LIVES MATTER @papyromaniac]

so jealous!!! I bet it was amazing!

[Dr Chris Naunton @chrisnaunton]

Tebtunis / Umm el-Baragat. This was yet another settlement founded under Amenemhat III with a cult of a local form of Sobek - called Soknebtunis in Ptolemaic and Roman times - at its centre. Full post: https://t.co/K0sAlVfngo

[UC Berkeley Library @UCBerkeleyLib]

His research solved a century-old puzzle. 🔎

Her research defied expectations in the field. ✍️

Students at @bancroftlibrary’s Center for the Tebtunis Papyri shine new light on 2,000-year-old fragments of papyri, offering a fresh look at antiquity. 📜

🔗 https://t.co/TVreHpqWR4

[Leah (she/her) | BLACK LIVES MATTER @papyromaniac]

love a good discussion of materiality and form! (Fournet's talk in #PerceptionsofWriting conf!)

[Leah (she/her) | BLACK LIVES MATTER @papyromaniac]

happening now!

[Leah (she/her) | BLACK LIVES MATTER @papyromaniac]

The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, in a Tebtunis papyrus.... #CTP #Metapapyrology @BerkeleyPapyri

[Scribe's Palette 𓃤 @scribespalette]

#MOEgypt5: Rounding out our Practical Matters session is @papyromaniac on "Teaching the Tebtunis Papyri: New ways of engaging visitors in special collections." #papyri #philology #teachpapyri #ancientscribes @BerkeleyPapyri @ARCENational @ArceMissouri

[kekw @lagrugru]

Californians in the Bay Area when the emergency alert was scarier than the actual earthquake #earthquake #emergencyalert

[Laura Soffiantini @laure_nmile]

Duke papyrus texts (https://t.co/5Pmga1ZRRK) automatically annotated for lemmas, morphology, syntax, semantic roles—making this the largest diachronic treebank for Ancient Greek so far (about 4.5 million tokens)

[Dr Victoria Austen @Vicky_Austen]

Classics Twitter dealing with Iliad translation discourse, Roman Empire bros discourse, and El*n reinventing Aeneid discourse all at the same time…

[Roman History @romanhistory1]

Eyes in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius

[The Sportula: Microgrants for Classics Students @Libertinopatren]

This month we only had enough funds to fill 6 microgrants and our backlog of emergency requests is more than double that. Any donation helps 🙏

[Eduardo García-Molina @eduardo_garcmol]

Alexander: *dies*

Ptolemy:

[Leah (she/her) | BLACK LIVES MATTER @papyromaniac]

@CJHandmer is inventing a new sort of paleography.... as if the uncharred papyri weren't difficult enough! https://t.co/HEa1KJYHnt

[David Heath @davidhth]

Here are Frederick Douglass's true feelings about the birth of the nation.

[Leah (she/her) | BLACK LIVES MATTER @papyromaniac]

cannot wait to get my hands on this

[Leah (she/her) | BLACK LIVES MATTER @papyromaniac]

@Vicky_Austen @IfBooksPod it's such a great podcast omg

[Leah (she/her) | BLACK LIVES MATTER @papyromaniac]

well we don't have time to unpack all of this. whoever said #papyrology is boring has no idea what they're talking about. (Gee, John. "Miscellanies from the Archive of the Theban Choachytes", Dem.Conf. 13, 2019)