New #openaccess publication!

'Rays of Language' explores how everyday written documents illuminate #linguistic diversity, change, and communication in the #ancient world. The volume offers a comprehensive overview of current approaches to the study of non-literary #Greek and related languages.

The book is edited by Klaas Bentein & Marja Vierros. It's available in PDF, #accessible EPUB, and print format (print on demand) at: https://doi.org/10.33134/HUP-34

#papyrology #digitalhumanities #linguistics

This course from ENCODE and DariahTeach explored the digital transformations in Greek and Latin #epigraphy, #papyrology, and other aspects of ancient #WritingCultures with excercises to test competences and knowledge.

#TrainingTuesday

➡️ https://campus.dariah.eu/resources/external/encode-course-digital-tools-for-the-research-and-study-of-ancient-writing-cultures

Uri #Yiftach, from the #University of #TelAviv, one of the great papyrologists of our time, explaining his work on #MachineLearning to better understand ancient texts. Among the international audience there are #Muslims, participating in the discourse.

This is an essential part of the #THEuMa vision: #Science should contribute to #peace, not #boycott.

#Israel #Milano #Bicocca #THEuMaConference #THEuMa2025 #JeanMonnet #Erasmus #Law #Economics #History #Papyrology #EU #EuropeanUnion #Europa

new paper on #wikidata and #papyrology: Sahu-Hough, Jasmine Amara. „Parsing the Payri: The Potentials of Wikidata for Papyrologists“. International Journal of Information Science and Technology, Bd. 9, Nr. 1, 1, März 2025, S. 1–10. innove.org, https://doi.org/10.57675/IMIST.PRSM/ijist-v9i1.265.

EDIT: DOI doesn't seem to work, here's the URL: https://innove.org/ijist/index.php/ijist/article/view/265

November 26th, 244 BCE—#OTD #OnThisDay Philonikos writes to Eukles informing him about a matter in which a swineherd has accused someone of stealing and sacrificing one of his pigs for the festival of Demeter

https://papyri.info/ddbdp/p.cair.zen;3;59350v #papyri #papyrology

Currently reading:

City of the Sharp-Nosed Fish: Greek Lives in Roman Egyp… https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/839760.The_City_of_the_Sharp_Nosed_Fish

A present by my mother, possibly in an attempt to make me understand why my parents devoted their lives to #papyrology