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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow in the UMR 7041 ArScAn/HArOc, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Nanterre

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Last day of an intense week for Marie Curie fellowship candidates on the campus of the Université Paris Nanterre, as they present their revised proposals! Great to see the projects taking shape.

17.05.2024 08:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ENCI, for tomography on the go!

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26.02.2024 15:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From Babylon to Nineveh, through London and Berlin.

28.01.2024 09:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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كل عام وانتم بخير في هذا العام الجديد 2024! مشاركة مدونة عن معنى نقوش ابجدية من بابل الى جزيرة أيرلندا
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03.01.2024 18:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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From Babylon to Dingle (and Back)! A holiday post on syllabaries, abecedaries, and what they're good for, anyway (or why I owe at least some of my current project to vacationing with the Irish):

scripts.hypotheses.org/743

28.12.2023 11:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Illustrated London News of February 21, 1953 was all abuzz about Elizabeth II's gown for her upcoming coronation. Much nicer (Supplement, page IV) was the color publication of this handbag of frit beads from the "priestess' room" (M2) at Neo-Assyrian Sultantepe:

12.12.2023 16:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A happy 5th! The day that gave us Neo-Latin Satrapes, -ae, m. "member of parliament," from Milton's "In Proditionem Bombardicam":
Cum simul in regem nuper satrapasque Britannos
Ausus es infandum perfide Fauxe nefas,
Fallor? an & mitis voluisti ex parte videri,
Et pensare malâ cum pietate scelus...

05.11.2023 17:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Machines à calculer mécaniques – MISS – Maison d'initiation et de sensibilisation aux sciences Le laboratoire universitaire des 8-15 ans.

Brush up on how to use your slide rule! Christian Jutten's video on presenting mechanical calculators at the Maison d'Initiation et de Sensibilisation aux Sciences from this year's Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, with download links:

www.miss-psaclay.universite-paris-saclay.fr/miss/machine...

18.10.2023 19:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ve Türkçe : scripts.hypotheses.org/691 !

16.10.2023 16:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy: Vol 34, No 1 Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy is a journal for the publication of articles in the archaeology, epigraphy, numismatics, and history of Ancient Arabia.

Third Century AD poetic hymns from pre-Islamic Yemen in the new Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy by Werner Daum, Yūsuf b. Muḥammad ‘Abdullāh,  Muṭahhar b. ‘Alī al-Iryānī:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/16000471...

13.10.2023 10:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Time to try this new thing out: A September visit to the BIAA, a beaded purse, and how much we owe to Ulrica "Hydie" Lloyd and other unsung illustrators on excavations:

scripts.hypotheses.org/603

#sultantepe #archaeology #neoassyrian #theBIAAnkara

10.10.2023 14:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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