#papyrology — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

The way papyrologists reconstruct ancient texts based on tiny scraps of papyrus seems like sorcery.

And really, it is sorcery. But it also makes sense. Here's a look at an example from the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women.

#hesiod #papyrology #papyri #greek #ancient
https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2023/12/reconstructing.html

We're about halfway through scanning our entire(!) #Papyrology Reading Room here at Duke (about 1,200 volumes). Uncontroversially #PublicDomain volumes are being added to the @internetarchive here: https://archive.org/details/papyrology #papyri #histodons

"Perceptions of Writing in Papyri. Crossing Close and Distant Readings"

Online Conference 7-8 December 2023, Basel University

Argument: This online conference will analyze how digital culture has changed the perceptions of writing styles in #papyri.

#papyrology #DigitalHumanities
https://d-scribes.philhist.unibas.ch/en/events-1/papyri-conference/