Foy Scalf. “New Papyri from Bab el Gusus? The Prosopography and Provenience of Papyrus HM 84123.” Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale 125 (2025): 425–448.
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Do you need a Coptic refresher course? Or, did you start Coptic, but need to go further? Introduction to Coptic 2 starts next week!!!
Register here: eventbrite.com/e/introducti...
We pick up with Lesson 17 in Lambdin's Introduction to Sahidic Coptic.

Thanks to an export from @gordien3a.bsky.social, almost 5000 coin hoards of the Roman Empire have been linked to about 14000 coin types in OCRE, greatly expanding geographic visualization, from Hadrian's Wall to India. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/02/coin... #lawdi #LODLAM #classicsbluesky

ISACM E10485
Book of Proverbs in Sahidic Coptic
Parchment, ink
8.3 x 11.3 cm
6th Century
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Originally published by Sabhy:
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Re-edited by Worrell (open access download):
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Binding spell to cause impotence written in Sahidic Coptic
Paper, ink
6 x 16 cm
9th–11th centuries
Moritz Collection, purchased 1929
isac-idb.uchicago.edu/id/00e5fadc-...
See brief overview: www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/20...

ISACM A12089
Annual Lectionary Written in Bohairic Coptic
Paper, ink
18th–19th century
Abu Makar Monastery (Wadi Natrun)
20.5 x 26.1 cm
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See description in Tasha Vorderstrasse's A Cosmopolitan City, pages 140–141:
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Introduction to Sahidic Coptic starts in 2 weeks (Feb 4). Take 1&2 at discount for complete Coptic (16 weeks). Meet on Zoom. Recordings/materials are available on our Canvas course website to learn at your own pace. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/introducti...
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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Day 7 of our WAVE Advent Calendar:

Cory Crawford - Alphabets in a world of hieroglyphs

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#job in #numismatics and #PhD candidates

two research associates (m/f/d) in Berlin at Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW)

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And another book that can be read and downloaded for FREE:

J. Rizzo, "Perpétuer le nom (sanx rn). Une liturgie mémorielle dans l’ancienne Égypte", CENiM 39

www.enim-egyptologie.fr?page=cenim&n...

#Egypt #Egyptology

The Museo Egizio in Turin is hiring a curator - particular for the predynastic!!

#Egyptology #Museology

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ISAC Short Class: How to become an Art Historian Week 2 - YouTube - www.youtube.com/watch?v=caeL...

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. ... Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance."

If you’d like to learn more about how #Imhotep became a character in historical fiction and a legendary sage, author of astrological treatises, you can read this short piece I wrote some time ago for the American Research Center in Egypt:

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