Tom "Gabelfrühstück" ElliottNew on the #ISAWNYU news blog: two of our PhD students have been selected as Archaeological Institute of America - New York Society Scholars!
Alexander Jones at #ISAWNYU tells me "if all goes according to plan, the Milan palimpsest containing the new Ptolemy Meteoroscope text will head to SLAC for this treatment soon!" He's hoping that is will help his research team with the still-recalcitrant pages.
Here's an entry point (an #ISAWNYU news blog post) to prior work on that manuscript, with links to other media coverage and papers: “ISAW Director Alexander Jones Collaborates to Reveal Lost Astronomical Treatise by Claudius Ptolemy.” News. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, April 25, 2023. https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-director-alexander-jones-collaborates-to-reveal-a-lost-astronomical-treatise-by-claudius-ptolemy.
ISAW Director Alexander Jones Collaborates to Reveal Lost Astronomical Treatise by Claudius Ptolemy
ISAW Director Alexander Jones collaborated with researchers in Paris to rediscover an ancient Greek manuscript of a previously unknown work by the Alexandrian astronomer Claudius Ptolemy. The project employed multispectral imaging to uncover the text, outlining Ptolemy’s invention of the "Meteoroscope". The text is the earliest documented treatise entirely devoted to describing a scientific instrument.
New on the #ISAWNYU Library blog:
> Patrick Liu, a Latin student at the Dalton School ... reports on his summer internship experience with the ISAW Library on helping to develop a post-OCR correction dataset for Latin
> Over time I became more familiar with these mistakes, almost like I learned the dialect of OCR errors. Seeing how letters and words were so easily bent or altered made me further appreciate the fragility of digital transference.
Interning in the ISAW Library: Developing an Error Correction Dataset for Latin Texts
A guest post by Patrick Liu, with an introduction by Associate Research Scholar Patrick J. Burns, reporting on Summer 2025 internships in the ISAW Library working on the Post-OCR Corrections using Latin Annotations (POCULA) project.
Hey NYC folks. #ISAWNYU leadership has made the decision to close the galleries on Sunday in anticipation of bad weather, so if you were planning on visiting the "Rodin's Egypt" exhibition, you'll want to do that tomorrow (Saturday) or wait until the galleries reopen on Wednesday.
Day one of this iteration of our "Computational Methods in Ancient Studies" graduate seminar at #ISAWNYU !
Pleiades gazetteerOut-of-cycle update to Pleiades gazetteer RDF/TTL exports.
In today's exports, the RDF/TTL dump was updated; usually it is only updated weekly on Sundays.
New version: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets/tree/093c22d65e6f882491a6bbffdc23903f87164e29/data/rdf
The out-of-cycle export was run to correct errors in the serialization of URIs reported by @rieyin (github issue: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades-gazetteer/issues/525). Code updates by Jesse Snyder for https://jazkarta.com/ under contract from #ISAWNYU. Thanks to both!
#PleiadesGazetteer #RDF #LinkedOpenData #DH
In today's exports, the RDF/TTL dump was updated; usually it is only updated weekly on Sundays.
New version: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets/tree/093c22d65e6f882491a6bbffdc23903f87164e29/data/rdf
The out-of-cycle export was run to correct errors in the serialization of URIs reported by @rieyin (github issue: https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades-gazetteer/issues/525). Code updates by Jesse Snyder for https://jazkarta.com/ under contract from #ISAWNYU. Thanks to both!
#PleiadesGazetteer #RDF #LinkedOpenData #DH
Tom ElliottI see news of a new online lecture has been posted on the #ISAWNYU website:
Prof. Beate Pongratz-Leisten, "Archaeology and Cultural Memory: The Social Construction of Death and the Hypogeum at Qatna", 11 December 2023 at 1pm US Eastern Time. This lecture will take place online; a Zoom link will be provided via email to registered participants. Registration is required
Archaeology and Cultural Memory:
This lecture will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. The sensational finds of an intact royal hypogeum below the palace of Qatna / modern Tell Misherifeh northeast of Homs in Syria have been discussed within the framework of the Rites of Passage as developed by the French folklorist and ethnographer Arnold. This talk will discuss the archaeological evidence from a religious-historical and anthropological perspective introducing the audience into the social construction of death and the afterlife.
Cool news on the #ISAWNYU news blog this morning:
ISAW Professor Claire Bubb receives the 2023 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit
https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/isaw-professor-claire-bubb-won-the-2023-charles-j-goodwin-award-of-merit
"... Claire Bubb, ISAW's Assistant Professor of Classical Literature and Science. The Goodwin Awards honor outstanding contributions to classical scholarship by members of the Society. [Bubb's] remarkable _Dissection in Classical Antiquity_ does much more than merely present a history of ..."
ISAW Professor Claire Bubb receives the 2023 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit
The C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit Committee recently announced that one of the three winners of this year's Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit is Claire Bubb, ISAW's Assistant Professor of Classical Literature and Science. The Goodwin Awards honor outstanding contributions to classical scholarship by members of the Society.
Over on the #ISAWNYU news blog, I have a follow-up piece for a more general audience on the release of #PleiadesGazetteer Datasets version 3.2:
ISAW Releases Geospatial Dataset Update
On Friday, 3 November 2023, ISAW released version 3.2 of Pleiades Datasets, a free, open, and platform-neutral collection of spatial, historical, archaeological, and bibliographic information about 40,418 ancient places and spaces derived from the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places.
New in the our #ISAWNYU open journal:
Huber, Peter J. “Third Millennium BC Chronology and Clock-Time Correction.” ISAW Papers 25 (2023). https://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/0cfxq1g1.
"The astronomical data available for fixing the third millennium BC Mesopotamian chronology are precarious. But surprisingly, if taken at face value they yield unique coherent chronologies for the Dynasties of Akkad and Ur III (about 50 years higher than ..."
#ancientHistory #ancientChronology #ancientMesopotamia #ancientAstronomy