Patristics, texts & transmissions, ancient history.
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A now lost copy of the two new sermons by St Augustine at Amelungsborn Abbey - looking for the inventory of 1412.
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Two new sermons of Augustine discovered in 2024, to be published by the CSEL.
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According to Pliny and Suetonius, the master gem cutter Dioskourides engraved Augustus' famed signet ring (a portrait of the emperor himself). That ring doesn't survive, but the gem below does, a deeply cut portrait in amethyst of the orator Demosthenes, signed by Dioskourides. 😍 🏺 1/
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The most famous surviving work from Dioskourides' workshop is the magnificent Gemma Augustea, a large sardonyx cameo glorifying the deeds of Augustus and his successor, Tiberius. The extraordinary quality makes it the most famed and precious cameo from antiquity. 🏺 3/
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The serpent column in Constantinople in the 16th century, before the heads at the top were broken off.
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This book (written by a scholar with language competency in Japanese using LLMs to translate secondary scholarship Korean, which he cant read) raises important questions we as a field have to face about expertise and translation, as well as what the role of language-learning is in history (🧵)
Just what does Deepseek do to garbage Greek embedded in an scanned document?
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National Geographic has a new archeology related newsletter that I contribute to. My first piece is on archeology and the Nag Hammadi Library. Featureing work by Brent Nongbri, @tonyburke.bsky.social, Nicola Denzey Lewis, Mark Goodacre, and others
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Over the weekend, I finally found a few quiet moments to write down my observations on a fascinating Arabic "hagiogeographical" text on the Holy Summit of Mount Sinai. The text has been on my mind since February, when I came across a mention of it in an unstudied fragment:
Today, I was able to use a quiet morning to finally jot some observations on a fascinating "hagiogeographical" text (or rather, its manuscripts and scribal context), which has been on my mind for the past few months:
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Excellent news from the University of Würzburg, where a researcher has discovered two unknown sermons by St Augustine in a Latin manuscript in Poland! The reporting (by Martin Brandstätter) is unusu...
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I reported yesterday on the discovery of two new sermons by St Augustine in a Latin manuscript in a monastery in Poland. One statement in the press release is also of great interest. The discoverer,...
Easily the most important monument in Istanbul is one that few visitors look at. Located today in the Hippodrome is an ancient bronze column missing its head. This is, in fact, the monument erected ...
The letters of the 6th century sophist Aeneas of Gaza have been sitting in a folder on my desktop for a month or two now, and I want to make some progress with making a translation into English.
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For decades, the Gnostic Gospels were widely believed to have been a library of ancient texts hidden away to protect their secrets. But what if the evidence for that is thinner than the papyrus the bo...
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1. The “Praise of the Summit of Mount Sinai” is an anonymous Christian Arabic text that has been preserved in several manuscripts dating from the 9th and 10th centuries CE. It presumably originated at...
1. The “Praise of the Summit of Mount Sinai” is an anonymous Christian Arabic text that has been preserved in several manuscripts dating from the 9th and 10th centuries CE. It presumably originated at...
일본사 전공한 독일 역사학자가 한국사의 노예제에 관한 책을 냈는데 한국어와 중국어를 못 해서 AI로 번역시켜서 자료를 읽었다고 써 놓음. 😡 무려 De Gruyter Brill 출판사에서…
📖 Zöllner, Reinhard. Slavery and Servile Societies in Korean History: The Hidden Background of Modern Korea, De Gruyter, 2025. doi.org/10.1515/9783...
