Today is Sham al-Naseem. It is calculated on the Monday after Coptic Easter and is traditionally celebrated by all Egyptians by eating salted fish and going out to gardens and parks by the Nile to celebrate the coming of spring. Its a holiday with pharonic roots and out of Egypt, the diaspora celebrates near large bodies of water like the ocean.
To everyone else also celebrating, Happy Sham al-Naseem!
Bentley Layton, author of the major #Coptic grammar in English, has died.
https://iacs-coptic.org/in-memoriam-bentley-layton-1941-2025
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"Athanasius von Qūṣ Qilādat at-taḥrīr fī ʿilm at-tafsīr [...]" by Gertrud Bauer
[Freiburg (im Breisgau): Schwarz, 1972]
Séance du 6 février 2025 du séminaire Manuscrits en Méditerranée, par Anne Boud’hors (IRHT) et Ahmed Nakshara (Université ‘Ayn Shams, Le Caire / Bourse Gaston Wiet). En 1922, les fouilles françaises à Tell Edfou, dirigées par l’archéologue Henri Henne, ont mis au jour une grande jarre à moitié remplie de papyrus, ainsi que plusieurs centaines … Continuer la lecture de Fonctionnement de l’administration à Edfou (Haute-Égypte) au dernier tiers du 7e siècle : l’apport d’une documentation bilingue (grecque et copte) →
La grande preghiera cantata e ballata durante il Leddet, il Natale copto eritreo, che cade il 7 gennaio.
Big preyer, song and dance during #Leddet, eritrean coptic Christmas the 7th of January.
#Eritrea #Africa #CopticChristmas #CopticOrthodox #coptic #Asmara
1,5 years into reporting the issue, #Wikidata now finally supports #coptic . I don't know any coptic, but it'll definitely open up interesting use cases (place names, propography, lexemes) for those who do.
Thanks to @Raymond for taking care of resuscitating the ticket!
Better late than never, pt. 2: We have published the (very long) blog post summarising our research seminar in Oslo last April.
👉 Read it on our blog!
https://dsenetwork.hypotheses.org/146
A group of textual scholars & software engineers discussed challenges of #DigitalScholarlyEditions regarding #Sustainability, mainly from a Norwegian perspective.
Headlined by @helling_patrick, we looked at #Coptic #Manuscripts, #Runes in #RelationalDatabases & #XML, #Mycenean #Inscriptions & #Norwegian #ArchivalEditions
The Kyprianos Database has announced the start of a new project, #Coptic Magical Formularies, to produce a second volume of the Papyri Copticae Magicae, this one containing dozens more magical texts written in Coptic.
@histodons @historikerinnen @antiquidons
#anthropology #geschichte #histodons #ReligiousStudies #magic #magick @anthropology #Egyptology #egypt
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