Fantastic keynote lecture this evening at the Summer School in Languages and Linguistics at @unileiden.bsky.social.
Ahmad al-Jallad spoke about the decipherment of South Arabic inscription from Dhofar, which was all the rage in the media world-wide last week.
21.07.2025 19:43 โ ๐ 24 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
no YOUR reconstruction of Aramaic nominal inflection is idiosyncratic and confusing
02.07.2025 09:32 โ ๐ 15 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Looking forward to participating in this conference: Studying Hebrew in Sixteenth-Century Strasbourg / Lโhรฉbraรฏsme chrรฉtien ร Strasbourg au XVIe siรจcle (Strasbourg, June 16-17)
08.06.2025 16:05 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Journal of Near Eastern Studies | Vol 84, No 1
New issue of Journal of Near Eastern Studies Vol. 84, No. 1 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jnes/202... @chicagojournals.bsky.social
@marshallcunningham.bsky.social @shanazaia.bsky.social
08.04.2025 16:01 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
journal cover: S. Astvatsatsin Church, Areni, from the north. Photo by Bertramz, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
New issue of Near Eastern Archaeology Vol. 88, No. 1 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/nea/2025...
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@melucene.bsky.social
07.04.2025 18:26 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
The order of the early NWS alphabet was, for some time, in flux, but I never thought about whether the placement of some words next to each other was coincidental, or as GKC suggests "certainly not accidental". E.g., yลd 'hand' and kฤpฬ 'palm' are side-by-side, as are หayin 'eye' and pรช 'mouth'.
14.01.2025 17:12 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Current Program โ MALS
Learning the basics of Meroitic and Old Nubian through the Macquarie Ancient Languages School this week
Hereโs how you write my name in ancient Meroitic cursive: ๐ฆจ๐ฆต๐ฆฎ๐ฆก๐ฆฅ๐ฆก. In Meroitic hieroglyphs, it's ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ
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Read right to left, this is transcribed ma+te+ha+e+wa+e
Learning ancient languages is fun!
06.01.2025 03:51 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
journal cover
New issue of Aramaic Studies Vol. 22, No. 2 (2024) brill.com/view/journal... @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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Just wrapped up my penultimate semester of coursework at JHU and finally catching up on social media. Excited to see Bluesky thrivingโmuch more active and engaging than X/Twitter! Also thrilled to dive into my new dissertation project on the history of Aramaic. Big things ahead!
13.12.2024 15:36 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Cuneiformist. History of ancient western Asia. Likely to post on assyriology and museums. Hoping to be distracted by dogs, cows, running, zombies. Curator of cuneiform & cylinder seals at British Museum. Host of Thin End of the Wedge podcast. Views my own.
Assyriologist | Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, Oxford | Opinions my own
Assyriologist and Egyptologist, devoted Wagnerian. Professor at Charles University, Prague. Co-editor of BASOR.
Assyriologist at the University of Copenhagen. Interested in languages, social and economic history, digital humanities, and cats. ๐จ๐ญ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ช
Data Engineer, Archaeology Data Service, University of York
Research Associate, University of Oxford
Co-Director, Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative https://cdli.earth
Vegan, cyclist, data lover...
Archaeologist specializing in the Near East/SWANA regions! Asst Prof Emory, Director of RLIIM in Iraqi Kurdistan. Remote sensing, mortuary archaeology, and ancient empires. Writing a book on imperial impacts on landscape and community in Assyria (she/they)
Senior Lecturer in Assyriology and Digital Humanities at #DigitalPastsLab. Interested in NLP for ancient languages, History of the ANE, Human-machine coop and LOD #questseeker
University Researcher at Helsinki University / ANEE / Kone Foundation / mother. Steering committee member of the Connected Past. Egyptology, network analysis, socio-economic history, Ptolemaic Egypt.
Associate Professor of Ancient Jewish History, UPenn
Teaching Middle East at UMich: ancient languages & histories, intellectual history, and sporting cultures.
"A Laid-Back Country Picker with a Laid-Back Country Mind"
McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University
UC Davis Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
Ancient Semitic languages and religions, Jewish Studies, Liberation Philology.
Philosophy: materialism/corporealism; truth-based morality | Language and Texts: Ancient Canaanite; Koine Greek (just starting to learn); ancient texts related to Israel and Judaism (I'm no respecter of canonical boundaries); translation
The American Society for Premodern Asia, founded in 1842 as the AOS, promotes research in the languages & literatures of West, Central, South & East Asia, & North Africa, incl. philology, epigraphy, linguistics & material culture. https://www.aos-site.org
The IAA was founded in 2003 to promote and represent Cuneiform Studies, ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology on an international basis.
Assyriologist at VU Amsterdam | Formerly Uni Vienna and CSTT Helsinki | Yale PhD | Ask me about Assyria | shanazaia.com
News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications
adjunct prof @ emory uni // digital initiatives manager @ society of biblical literature & sbl press // psalms & philology & poetry
PhD candidate, Bar Ilan U | writing about ancient Jerusalem | bimonthly Substack posts | husband/dad | home gardener/forager | I make pizza on Fridays
I teach cryptography at Johns Hopkins. https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Research centre and library for Egyptology (including Coptology), Assyriology (including Hittitology), Near Eastern archaeology and connected studies.
https://www.nino-leiden.nl
