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Out-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 -
I 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
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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 ..."
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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New on the #ISAWNYU blog: "ISAW Announces Graduate Conference Series: I Saw the Futures of the Past"
https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/graduate-conference-series-i-saw-the-futures-of-the-past
"The ISAW Student Council invites submissions for ... ‘I Saw the Future of the Past' ... March 2024 ... ‘Encountering the Past: Reflections on an Interdisciplinary Ancient World.’ Submissions are open to graduate students at any level. Each presenter will have 20 minutes to speak. Abstracts [due] by December 20th, 2023."
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On the #ISAWNYU News Blog today: "Recent Publication by ISAW Prof. Dan Potts on Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran"
https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/recent-publication-dan-potts-kinship-in-ancient-iran
"Originally delivered as the Biennial Ehsan Yarshater Lectures, 'Aspects of Kinship in Ancient Iran' is an exploration of kinship in the archaeological and historical record of Iran’s most ancient civilizations. Professor Daniel T. Potts brings together history, ..."
#ancientIran #ancientHistory #archaeology #Elamites #Achaemenids #Sasanians
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By way of @sebhth
Newly published as ISAW Papers 22.6:
D. Wolin. 2023. "Gender Across the Board: Representations in Ancient World-Themed Games"
https://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/22-6/
This is part of the "Re-Rolling the Past" conference proceedings edited by Daniela Wolin and Gabriel Mckee ( @SecretTerror). See more of those papers at https://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/22/
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#ISAWNYU Announces Fall 2023 Roster of "Expanding the Ancient World: K-12" Workshops:
https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/etaw-k-12-fall-2023
"Expanding the Ancient World: K-12, a professional development program for K-12 teachers, is starting its second year, and we are excited to announce the fall 2023 schedule of events[, which] will take place on zoom, and registration links are included below. CTLE hours are available for New York State educators."
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Over on the #ISAWNYU News Blog: ISAW exhibitions is excited to announce our [free, public] Fall exhibition, "Through the Lens: Latif Al Ani’s Visions of Ancient Iraq, opening November 8, 2023, [Wednesdays-Sundays]. Through the Lens explores the cultural and political exploitation of Iraq’s history through the eyes of nineteenth century archaeologists, twentieth century photographers, and contemporary artists.
https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/through-the-lens-exhibition-opening
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Over on the #ISAWNYU news blog, we read about "Recent Publications by the ISAW Community"
https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/2023-publication-event
"In conjunction with Claire Bubb’s recent lecture “Dissecting History Repopulating the World of Roman Medical Research,” the ISAW Library arranged a display of recent publications (from 2020-2023) by members of the ISAW community. In addition to scholarly monographs, journal articles, and book contributions, the display featured a slideshow of ..."
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Another online lecture from #ISAWNYU has just been announced: Roderick Campbell on "Writing as Wen: The Ontology of Shang Script", 18 October 2023 at 1pm US Eastern Time.
More info and to register (required): https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/writing-as-wen
"Approaches to writing in Early China have been founded on a problematic set of assumptions -- namely that writing systems are strictly and only representations of natural language. This, in turn, has served to ..."
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A couple of weeks ago, the following notice was posted on the #ISAWNYU news blog:
Establishment of the Raffaella Cribiore Fund for Archaeology at ISAW
https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/bagnall-cribiore-endowment-fund
"Roger S. Bagnall, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History and Leon Levy Director Emeritus, and his wife Whitney S. Bagnall, have endowed the Raffaella Cribiore Fund for #Archaeology in honor of Prof. Raffaella Cribiore, who passed away unexpectedly on July 13, 2023...."
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The #ISAWNYU outreach program "Enhancing the Ancient World for #Teachers" has announced 3 online workshops to be offered in November and December 2023:
Reckoning with Ancient Fragments: The Transcultural World of the #Sogdians
#Greece, #Egypt, and the Body: #Dissection and #Mummification in Cross-Cultural Perspective
#Nomads in World History: How Human Mobility Shapes Society
More info & to register (required): https://isaw.nyu.edu/outreach/etaw-workshops
Boosts appreciated.
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I see that our new Curatorial Assistant, Dr. Carl Walsh, now has a profile page published on the #ISAWNYU web site:
https://isaw.nyu.edu/people/staff/carl-walsh
"Carl is an archaeologist specializing on cross-cultural interactions in north Africa, western Asia, and the Mediterranean during the Bronze Age. He earned his BA in Egyptology from the University of Cambridge and PhD in Mediterranean and western Asian archaeology from University College London. He previously worked as a postdoctoral fellow at ..."
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Today is the first meeting of this year's iteration of #ISAWNYU's graduate seminar "Introduction to Digital Humanities for the Ancient World" (we team-teach it every other year).
Today, @sebhth will kick things off by diving right into hand-crafting HTML in VSCode as an intro to coding, markup, text encoding, experimentation, and hands-on collab.
As readings in advance he's assigned:
Doctorow, Corey. 2023. “Pluralistic: Tiktok’s Enshittification”. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/.
and ... 1/2
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Over on the #ISAWNYU news blog, I see notice that "NYU Interim Provost Georgina Dopico has approved the recommendation of ISAW's faculty to promote Sören Stark from Associate Professor to Professor of Central Asian Archaeology, effective September 1".
https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/stark-full-professor-promotion
Congratulations Professor Stark!
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New on the #ISAWNYU news blog:
New Publication by ISAW Professor Dan Potts on Albert Houtum Schindler: A Remarkable Polymath in Late-Qajar Iran
https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/potts-publication-schindler
"In August Professor Dan Potts published a biography of Albert Houtum Schindler, a person whose name crops up frequently in literature on #Iran concerning everything from #geography and #geology to #numismatics and #archaeology."
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Prospective students who are interested in the #ISAWNYU Doctoral Program in the Ancient World are invited to attend a "virtual" open house on October 30, 2023.
More info and to register (required): https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/open-house-2023
Please boost.
#histodon #archaeodon #ancientHistory #archaeology #artHistory
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Over on the #ISAWNYU blog today we learn that ISAW Assistant Professor Claire Bubb and NYU Classics Professor Emeritus Michael Peachin have published a collected volume, *Medicine and the Law under the Roman Empire,* with Oxford University Press.
https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/bubb-publication-roman-medicine-and-law
"Stemming from a conference held at ISAW and NYU Classics in 2019, this collaborative volume collects essays by experts on medicine, law, and intellectual culture ..."
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Doing a hopefully quick context switch since I got an email from root on the #ISAWNYU website server that reads: "memmon.py restarted the process named primary_zeoclient1:primary_zeoclient1 at Wed May 31 12:03:05 2023 because it was consuming too much memory (1547214848 bytes RSS)"
Plone clients grow RAM-wise over time, so this is an expected behavior, but it can also be an indicator of malicious pummeling, so it's worth checking network traffic via Cloudwatch.
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Over on the #ISAWNYU News blog today: "ISAW Professor Dan Potts Co-Edits Oxford History of the Ancient Near East"
https://isaw.nyu.edu/news/dan-potts-co-edits-oxford-history-of-the-ancient-near-east
"With the appearance of Volumes IV and V, covering the #Assyrian and #Achaemenid empires, publication of the five-volume Oxford History of the Ancient Near East is now complete. Co-edited by Karen Radner (Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich), Nadine Moeller (Yale University) and Dan Potts (ISAW), the five volumes cover the entire ..."
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Yesterday I posted about the latest "Expanding the Ancient World for Teachers" event scheduled by #ISAWNYU.
This morning, the ETAW initiative itself has rolled out a descriptive web page with a link to upcoming events: https://isaw.nyu.edu/etaw
You can track/syndicate that upcoming events page with your preferred feed reader: https://isaw.nyu.edu/etaw/etaw-workshops/RSS
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I'm really looking forward to today's free online lecture from #ISAWNYU:
Timothy Kaiser (Lakehead University) on "An #Illyrian Sanctuary’s Surprise: Europe’s Oldest #Zodiac", at 1pm US Eastern Time. I think there's still time to register if you do it in the next couple of hours: https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/an-illyrian-sanctuary"Investigations at Nakovana Cave, which overlooks the Adriatic Sea from a Dalmatian ridge, revealed undisturbed chambers intentionally sealed more than two ..."
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Tomorrow night, it's the inaugural #ISAWNYU Expanding the Ancient World Workshop: "Diverse Perspectives on the Silk Roads: The Sogdians", presented via Zoom by Mariana Castro and Braden Cordivari.
New York State teachers participating will receive 1 CTLE hour.
More information and to register in advance: https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/etaw-workshop-sogdians
"The #Sogdians were a diverse community of merchant families occupying the oases regions of Central Asia between the 4th-8th ..."
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#ISAWNYU has just announced its first "Expanding the Ancient World Workshop", to be held online on 7 December 2022 at 5pm US Eastern Time:
"Diverse Perspectives on the #SilkRoads: The #Sogdians"
Registration required: https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/etaw-workshop-sogdians
ETAW is a series of professional development workshops and online resources for teachers. Keyed to the #NYC Department of #Education #SocialStudies Scope and Sequence, this program is designed to offer #K12 #educators ...
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Late reminder: tomorrow, 9 November 2022, #ISAWNYU Visiting Research Scholar Christina Chandler will present "#Seals and Status: Text and Images from the #Persepolis Fortification Archive" at 1pm US Eastern Time. Free and online, but registration required in advance.
More info and to register: https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/seals-and-status
#ancientHistory #ancientNearEast #epigraphy #Aramaic #archaeology #BeforeModernTimes #cuneiform #Elamite
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Updated:
Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Living in Alabama and working for New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Care and feeding of https://pleiades.stoa.org.
Black lives matter. Aspiring antifascist in honor of the grandfather I never met.
#ancient #AncientGeography #AncientHistory #archaeology #BeforeModernTimes #BoundaryDisputes #DigitalHumanities #EpiDoc #epigraphy #geography #histodon #history #ISAWNYU #PleiadesGazetteer #RomanHistory #Taxation #fedi22