Last day of an intense week for Marie Curie fellowship candidates on the campus of the Université Paris Nanterre, as they present their revised proposals! Great to see the projects taking shape.

ENCI, for tomography on the go!

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From Babylon to Nineveh, through London and Berlin.

كل عام وانتم بخير في هذا العام الجديد 2024! مشاركة مدونة عن معنى نقوش ابجدية من بابل الى جزيرة أيرلندا
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From Babylon to Dingle (and Back)! A holiday post on syllabaries, abecedaries, and what they're good for, anyway (or why I owe at least some of my current project to vacationing with the Irish):

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The Illustrated London News of February 21, 1953 was all abuzz about Elizabeth II's gown for her upcoming coronation. Much nicer (Supplement, page IV) was the color publication of this handbag of frit beads from the "priestess' room" (M2) at Neo-Assyrian Sultantepe:

A happy 5th! The day that gave us Neo-Latin Satrapes, -ae, m. "member of parliament," from Milton's "In Proditionem Bombardicam":
Cum simul in regem nuper satrapasque Britannos
Ausus es infandum perfide Fauxe nefas,
Fallor? an & mitis voluisti ex parte videri,
Et pensare malâ cum pietate scelus...

Brush up on how to use your slide rule! Christian Jutten's video on presenting mechanical calculators at the Maison d'Initiation et de Sensibilisation aux Sciences from this year's Journées Européennes du Patrimoine, with download links:

www.miss-psaclay.universite-paris-saclay.fr/miss/machine...

Third Century AD poetic hymns from pre-Islamic Yemen in the new Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy by Werner Daum, Yūsuf b. Muḥammad ‘Abdullāh,  Muṭahhar b. ‘Alī al-Iryānī:

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Time to try this new thing out: A September visit to the BIAA, a beaded purse, and how much we owe to Ulrica "Hydie" Lloyd and other unsung illustrators on excavations:

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