Sunny Norwich 😎

congratulations! And good luck. Looking forward to hearing news of progress

We were just walking, but it does look very relaxing

Thanks so much. Glad you found it and like it. Hope you enjoy the other episodes too.

thanks! Very glad to hear you enjoyed it. Small fields like Assyriology especially need good communicators like @moudhy.bsky.social

the one on the right is a copy of part of a list of Akkadian synonyms called Malku=sharru. Words that are difficult for some reason (like being old, or from another language) are explained using a more straightforward word. Very helpful list

maybe. I'll have a little look around

I'm not so familiar with material from Ugarit, but it doesn't look very promising for Mesopotamian. Especially just a single sign. You do get Luwian and Egyptian, so maybe Ugaritic is a possibility? Would 'i make some kind of sense?

is that a Roman salute?

did you ever hear this one? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdbl...

key finds include an inscribed doorway slab of King Ashurnasirpal, and a stone monument carved with designs representing the gods

are you seeing any repairs?

Couldn't quite bring myself to post that bit of archaeological context on #InternationalWomensDay. My wife's reaction was that she hoped someone twonked him with a sturdy handbag

"their claim. They had no claim because they had rendered no service to the state." Leonard Woolley, excavator of Ur, speaking at a debate (nuance alert) on women's suffrage while a student at Oxford. Big debate in UK c. 1900. Gertrude Bell was also anti-suffrage, no doubt for different reasons