Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory

The bureaucracy of it all: deep dives from the archives, all things Linear B, Aegean-y, Alice E. Kober-y, etc.

[UT Liberal Arts @LiberalArtsUT]

🎉Congratulations to UT professors Geraldine Heng, Thomas Palaima, and James Pennebaker — all three were elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences @americanacad earlier this month!🎉

Read more: https://t.co/ozp2U2elF9

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[Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory @PASParchives]

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Tom Palaima's key-note opening lecture for the National Archaeology Week 2023 at Macquarie University, Australia, in connection with their exhibition Mysteries Revisited: From Ancient Codes to Comic Culture.

[Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory @PASParchives]

In celebration of Yves Duhoux on his 80th birthday:

https://t.co/7nj8SLh5m0

[Gregory Crane @PhilologistGRC]

Millions and millions of largely handwritten slips illustrating Latin words at the thesaurus Linguae Latinae

[Susan Lupack @SusanLupack]

Look up the entry on the Psi figurine - the emotion I gave it was Protection, Anxiety, and Hope for the Future! @PASParchives

[Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory @PASParchives]

Very cool thread on early runic writing in Norway ....

[Kristel Zilmer @Kristel_Zilmer]

1. This thread is about a unique #runic find from Norway – the oldest datable rune-stone in the world. It can change our knowledge about early runic writing tradition and the custom of making rune-stones. #runology #archaeology Photo: George Alexis Pantos, @Kulturhistorisk

[Incunabula @incunabula]

The Development of Old Germanic Alphabets
A table showing the evolution of the Old Germanic alphabet from its earliest Semitic antecedent - Phoenician script - through Greek, Etruscan and Rhaetian, to the Old Germanic, Anglo-Saxon and Norse runic scripts.
https://t.co/vE8qnAUPJD

[Joe Lonsdale @JTLonsdale]

It’s been a mystery why Roman concrete often lasted thousands of years, but ours decays in mere decades.

Turns out they incorporated chemicals in a process that induces self-healing; scientists at MIT just figured this all out - in 2022.

Extraordinary.

https://t.co/cOPyln0ifd

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

1) A truly incredible artefact - This portable bronze writing case was found in an elite male burial in Thessaloniki, dating to around 350 BC. The fold-up case consists of two hinged half-cylinders with lidded compartments and a built-in inkwell.

[Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory @PASParchives]

From UTs own @AntiqueThought ! Great cover, great metaphor

[Andrew Riggsby @AntiqueThought]

Finally! Just in time for the holiday shopping season! The new, much more affordable paperback is here.
https://t.co/GffaSRKlAs

[VIEWS Project 🌈 @crewsproject]

Just read about this open access book on grapholinguistics: Writing Systems and Their Use by Dimitrios Meletis and Christa Dürscheid

https://t.co/FsMQi5pkwB

[Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory @PASParchives]

Thinking about lost ancient writing on perishables, an article on a female from Deir el-Medina, tattooed with words and imagery associated with service to Hathor. Also a lotus on the lower back... and here we thought it was a Y2k thing 😂

https://t.co/UcYvX2vyY8

[Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory @PASParchives]

A lovely blogpost by Tom Palaima occasioned by the @SusanLupack + co. exhibition on Kober, Linear B and decipherment

https://t.co/KJZGrSPpfY

[VIEWS Project 🌈 @crewsproject]

Next year we'll be launching a funded competition for Visiting Fellowships at the VIEWS project. In the meantime, anyone who has funding for a visit (or can apply for funding from an external source) is very welcome to get in touch. More information here: https://t.co/1u7g5JQuKs

[Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory @PASParchives]

A great blog post by @SusanLupack about how the Linear B exhibit on decipherment and the many documents related to Alice Kober made their way to Maquarie University. Also includes a link to an unboxing video...

https://t.co/m1vgpJezTT

[Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory @PASParchives]

Thanks to PASP assistant Amber Kearns, 25 more Ventris letters are online.

Two beauts with links:
1) Ventris to Bennett, while working in Crete on the Knossos tablets
https://t.co/4H1i9VLT8w
2) Chadwick to Ventris on the decipherment
https://t.co/OxbqGkUTcj

[Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory @PASParchives]

Very cool for being a text on a wooden tablet (and such a long-neglected one!), but also see pt 3 of the thread for the tease ....

[Louis Dautais @LDautais]

1/🥳So excited to announce the publication of my article, written w. M. Gabolde & K. Birin, which bringing the 1st translation of a wooden writing-tablet kept in the @britishmuseum since... 1868! 😱
Thanks @ilonareg for giving us the freedom to study and publish this document 😊

[Incunabula @incunabula]

At the Hieroglyphs exhibition at the British Museum - this is just mental.

[Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory @PASParchives]

An opportunity to work with a truly wonderful supervisor in Dr. Steele, not to mention an exciting project!

[VIEWS Project 🌈 @crewsproject]

I've made a new Vacancies page on the VIEWS website - we're hiring, tell your cuneiformist/Egyptologist/Mayanist friends!

https://t.co/7HdbxJWN5F