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Hittite word of the day: ištanāna-, "altar, altar table".

Altar with various objects - statue of Sophia, large candle, cup, books, pantacles, etc.

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Hittite word of the day: ištanāna-, "altar, altar table".

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Remember that writing a book, publishing a scholarly article or playing music are now not only "good things" generally (provided you're good at what you do) – they are now acts of resistance.

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We have: * MegaCorp-owned machines trying to take over the faculties of human thinking * A giant computer network ruled by said MegaCorps influencing our every action * Corporate neo-fascism * Livestreamed execution It's cyberpunk, but worse. No cool aesthetic neon lights and pretty Shinjuku rain.

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Actually since yesterday, but still – yey!

Self in mirror, in suit, with text: "Your friendly neighborhood Ugaritologist – now 45 years old!"

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"Best practice" is one of the silliest phrases in the English language. "Top dollar" is a close second.

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Out and about now, so cannot check for examples, but pretty certain they are solid.

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Rebecca Bugge @dameboudicca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In borrowings, yes, iirc there are several examples of this (due to the apicality of Eg. /r/).

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Year 48 photo project - day 12. Husband's birthday.

A heap of wrapped presents laying on a table.

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Rebecca Bugge @dameboudicca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

6th century (Kofun era) Japanese stone warrior. It's from the Iwatoyama Tumulus, the largest burial of its kind in northern Kyushu - possibly the burial of Tsukushi no Kuni Iwai, a powerful local leader and the head of a rebellion. Now at the Tokyo National Museum. #archaeology #japan #kofun

Stone figure with a face surrounded by long locks and a belt at the waist. The shape of the body is very stylized.

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That's... a very irrelevant comment.

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.

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Ancient Egyptian word of the day: jwn, ("color"). Historically pronounced [jawin] or [ʔawin]. Cognate of Semitic words such as Arabic lawn-, "color'.

Lundensian square Bantorget, with trees and flowers in crimson, auburn, green, gold, and blue.

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Btw, reading a bit of the Wnjs pyramid texts right now, with Allen's grammar. That shit is weird. But weird good. But still weird.

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And yeah, the Coptic vocalizations are weird (and yep, did look at them). Must admit I followed the general consensus vocalization of the word. Doing otherwise would, I think, be perilous (at least in this context!).

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Yeah, I also prefer glottal stop for /j/, but I wanted to throw the conservative crowd a bone...

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ancient Egyptian word of the day: jwn, ("color"). Historically pronounced [jawin] or [ʔawin]. Cognate of Semitic words such as Arabic lawn-, "color'.

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Realize I misspelt an Arabic word. Now removed, but honestly not going to restart the thread :-)

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Man hör i dessa dagar inte sällan att "vi" fått en "ny bibelöversättning". Rent förutom alla problem i användandet av "vi" här, vill jag lite försynt påpeka att det som givits ut är en nyöversättning av Nya testamentet. Inte "Bibeln".

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Ola Wikander @olawikander.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Or... it looks as though I can't?

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Sister of Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, one of the closest pupils of Martinez de Pasqually and founder of the CBCS/RÉR.

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Rebecca Bugge @dameboudicca.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Phoenician word of the day: Khnt ("priestess"). Pictured: Claudine-Thérèse WIllermoz, Madame Provensal. One of the few female members of the Élus Coëns (does that make her a "Coënne"? :-) ), who rose all the way to the degree of Réau-Croix.

Painting of Madame Provensal – origin unknown to me.

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Year 48 photo project - day 7. Hawthorn in autumn sunlight. #hawthorn #autumn #naturephotography

Red hawthorn berries with light green leaves.

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You can love stuff and spend your life on it without constantly screaming about it being perfect. Try it. Scholars doing classical humanities want nothing more than people studying ancient literature. Believe me.

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It's just like the scholarly analysis of video games in a way: it's done *because* the stuff is so important. Not because the scholar somehow hates it.

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We don't always agree with the stuff we're studying - far from it - but we are well aware of its importance. We don't have to convince ourselves that ancient literature is good. We know that.

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A Homer scholar *knows* that the Homeric epics are great. Believe me.

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