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Peridot intaglio of Cleopatra II, Ptolemaic Egypt, 175-115 BC

from The Walters Art Museum

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repeat after me: people in the past were not stupid. people in the past were not dirty. people in the past were people like you. you are not inherently better than our ancestors simply for being born in the modern age.

[freesias-and-wine]

This is why I adore working with non-literary papyri so much. As much as I complain about bad handwriting it brings me so much joy with how unique it is to each hand. Yes, their etas, epsilons, and pis are identical, but my handwriting is also incomprehensible when I'm just writing out an email draft. Yes, the use of omega instead of omicron is frustrating, but who doesn't make spelling mistakes.

These texts are so personal, many never meant for to be used by anyone but the creator. But somehow they have survived millennia to end up on my computer screen and provide a tiny snapshot into their world.

They were people with best friends and favourite foods, with pets they adored and annoying neighbours. They had thoughts and opinions and were in no way lesser or incapable.

They were just like us.

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I have begun dreaming about epsilon's ligatures

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However awful third century Alexandrian Chancery Script is, at least its not Ptolemaic Cursive

[memories-of-ancients]

Faience collar, Egypt, 12th Dynasty, 1980-1630 BC

from The Penn Museum

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I have spent so long staring at papyri I have forgotten how English sentence structure works

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I feel myself edging closer and closer to military history and I dislike this development immensely. However, being a published scholar on the armies of the diadochi would be an extremely entertaining factoid to use on men obsessed with Alexander III.

[mini-girlz]

Priestess Rannai

New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, 1479–1425 B. C.

Rannai, the priestess (singer) of the god Amon originate from tomb No. 345 located in the ancient Egyptian necropolis for nobility Sheikh Abd el-Qurna on the western bank of Thebes. According to the inscriptions, both

Made from the precious ebony wood.

> pushkinmuseum.art

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I'm currently reading up on the depiction of Dionysus in the Hellenistic period, and it is baffling to read academics argue that it was Alexander III that linked himself to Dionysus, using source material dated to the 3rd century BC at the earliest. Are you arguing that the association predates the Ptolemies using material written under Ptolemaic patronage?

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"An important distinction to make" is academic jargon for "a hill I will happily die on".

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I have killed two birds with one stone by convincing my thesis supervisor to join me at a symposium. I get an emotional support established researcher to sit beside as I try and talk to an academic idol of mine, and he gets to boast of the MPhil student he successfully poached from the clutches of the Latinists that make up the majority of the Dutch field of ancient economics.

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I have accidentally scheduled all my deadlines to fall in the same week. This will not be the first nor the last time I give myself a caffeine induced arrhythmia in the name of academia.

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Evening tutorials are lovely because they don't require me to wake up before midday.