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taoish

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Author, standup comedian, and independent scholar.
Interested in palindromes, antiquity and the early medieval, ancient coins, Daoism aka Taoism, comedy, politics, and music among other rabbit holes.

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taoish, to bookstodon
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Voynich manuscript!!

No one knows more about it or speaks more engagingly on the topic than Lisa Fagin Davis. Here is her most recent (very rigorous) discussion of the topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VlSRZy0D_Y

@histodons @medievodon @bookstodon

taoish, to histodons
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More on the Roman (late Republican) luxury domus recently discovered. This website (in Italian) has several photos and a video.

https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/attualit/colosseo-scoperta-nuova-domus-mosaici-rara-bellezza-mai-2254488.html

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CFP: Letter writing in the Roman empire (from Serena Connolly, Rutgers):

The Roman Epistulae Project invites abstracts for the conference 'Empire of Correspondence: Roman Imperial Letters as Literature and State Messaging, 31 BCE–534 CE' to be held in Boulder, Colorado, 4-5 October 2024.

Papers should examine the role of imperial correspondence in Roman society and governance.

Abstracts are due 1st January 2024. More info: https://tinyurl.com/hx6jvvx4

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@michaelmeckler @histodons
Can you please unpack the phrase "Imperial Correspondence"? Does that mean anything written after Octavian consolidated power? Or specifically a letter written in the service of the Roman Empire, by someone with an official roll? Thx

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Ladies, I have a horny man-god for you! Wait, "horned", a horned man-God - Gelas, from Sicily! Phew, that could have got awkward! (Ok @AimeeMaroux I know you can still do something inappropriate with Gelas!) This Æ Tetras harks all the way back to 420 - 405 BC, it amazes me that it is possible to hold something so old in your hands! More at: https://coinofnote.com/gela-ae-tetras-420-405-bc/

Original coin has: "Bull right, olive branch above, three pellets (mark of value = 1/4 litra) in exergue". On mine, basically only the bull is visible.

taoish,
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@AimeeMaroux @CoinOfNote
I saw a beautiful example of your first coin, @Greenseer or one like it -- I think the description said it was Dionysus though.

bloggingjulia, to random
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Are there any other academics from the medieval studies field around here? I was wondering because most of the people here seem to be from the tech field.

Would love to connect with other academics.

taoish,
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@bloggingjulia Yes! And welcome. Lots of medieval studiers here. A good way to engage with us is to add the @histodons group and the @medievodon group to your posts. Note: not the hashtag, but the a.gup.pe address like I just did.

taoish, to histodons
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A proto-coin (ROMAN REPUBLIC: AE aes rude, 45.24g, before 4th century BC) is listed for an upcoming auction with a museum number written on the side.

The number looks like "L-1900-III".
Any numismatists or museum folk intrigued?
https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&sid=7077&lot=1700

@medievodon @histodons

SJLahey, to bookhistodons
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11 Sep 1942: Death of Adriano Cappelli (b. 1859), Italian archivist & palaeographer at Parma State Archives, best known for his Lexicon Abbreviaturarum—a dictionary of c.14,000 abbreviations from .

@bookhistodons @medievodons

taoish,
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@SJLahey @bookhistodons @medievodons

The Lexicon Abbreviaturarum is available for free download at archive.org, as well.
https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_nFwoAAAAYAAJ

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@jmccyoung @SJLahey @bookhistodons @medievodons
I took that class! For two terms. It is very good, and good value. Prof. Charles Burnett was my instructor. I reccomend it.

taoish, to histodons
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One of the stolen papyri in the Obbink scandal has been returned and published. It turns out to be a previously unknown collection of the sayings of Jesus, possibly 2nd century - which would make it older than almost all of the New Testament.
https://brentnongbri.com/2023/09/09/the-date-of-the-new-oxyrhynchus-sayings-of-jesus-p-oxy-87-5575/

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taoish,
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@ninetiger @histodons
One expert says no bc of the non-canonical material in this fragment - it overlaps with the Gospel of Thomas also - but I think it's worth more study for sure.

How can we be sure the other stuff wasn't also in Q?

taoish, to histodons
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Does anyone know a comprehensive source where I could see all of the fragments of Filocalian lettering from late Rome? (presumably all church inscriptions by Pope Damasus, but surprise me!)

@histodons @medievodon

aaronm, to medievodons
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@medievodons and Art Historians, I need help with a word. Is there a specific term for "those little groups of three dots" one often sees in manuscript illumination? As example in Ott.lat.1562 f.1r. I feel like I've seen them so much they need a specific term, but I can't seem to recall one

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@aaronm @medievodons
On ancient coins (600 BCE =>) they are called pellets (today).

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@AskHistorians @histodons
Now it says that the creator deleted the post. Can anyone synopsize the answer? It's a good question. If moderate amounts of sex were considered essential for healthy life, why WERE priests asked to be celibate?

taoish,
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@AskHistorians @histodons
Got it, thank you very much! I think the following link should jump directly to the answer, which is very good and nuanced.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/15f7m7v/in_medieval_times_it_was_thought_that_sex_in/jud2pfh/

aaronm, to medievodons
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Does anyone recognize this
Source is BAV Ott.lat.877 f.1r. I think this was originally a flyleaf that just had the title of the work (Bede's Historia Anglorum), but the cruciform thing is puzzling me
@medievodons

taoish,
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@aaronm @medievodons
That cross figure is a variant (with extra letters) of a figure poem by Ps.-Venantius Fortunatus, which in turn is based on a couplet from the middle of a North African church inscription composed by Calbulus and found in the Codex Salmasianus (Anthologia Latina). There are several witnesses.

I would love to correspond with anyone researching this, as I am. It's an example of a "labyrinth," best known from the Tabulae Iliacae (1st c. BCE).

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@aaronm @medievodons
PS the cross figure is upside down in that image.

taoish,
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@NFerey @aaronm @medievodons
The figure in Amiens 223 is (a more accurate version of) that same figure. Plus a wonderful doodle on the recto!

taoish,
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@NFerey @chronohh @aaronm @medievodons
The last two figures in Hrabanus Maurus' book feature palindromes as the intexts. It set off a burst of Carolingian "versus recurrentes" over the next century, many by Irish peregrinni in the circle of John Scottus Eriugena.

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I'm looking for Edinburgh Fringe shows about hidden or forgotten history! I feel like I saw lots of shows like this advertised last year, and I didn’t actually see any of them. Please recommend these to me 🥰💛

#EdFringe #edinburghfringe #EdFringe23 #fringe #theatre

taoish,
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@riewarden
I've got two hidden Edinburgh shows for you-

"Ancient Coins from Forgotten Kingdoms" Burrito N Shake, 13:15

Also my palindrome Improv show has chunks of lurid Palindrome history in between guest comedians, while we work on our palindromes.

Palindrome Fight! Brewdog West (50 Lothian) at 16:55

Both shows are all month, 5-27 Aug except Tuesdays. PBH Free Fringe so just show up, I'll pass a hat in case you are moved to contribute. @histodons

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taoish,
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@abolisyonista @psychictides @academicchatter
For people of a certain age, "nee" is what you put before a woman's maiden name, after her slave name (oops I mean married name).

taoish,
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@bike @abolisyonista @academicchatter
Not sure I follow, could you give an example please?

taoish,
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@abolisyonista @academicchatter
If they are a classicist or a medievalist, the elegant way is to cite them as "Fred Rezekhani (olim Susie Rezekhani)" or whatever.

azforeman, to linguistics
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"Six Moods of Rōdakī"

In which I read some passages from the poet Rudaki (9th-10th centuries) in a reconstruction of Early New Persian pronunciation and also in my English translation.

Complete with nasalized long vowels, still quite peripheral short vowels, and phonemic /xʷ ð β ɣ q w ē ō/. The text shown, as before, uses ذ for all instances of /ð/, and ڤ for /β/.

@linguistics @poetry @medievodons @histodons
@bookstodon

video/mp4

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@azforeman @linguistics @poetry @medievodons @histodons @bookstodon

Thank you for sharing! I can't gauge the accuracy of the translation, but you definitely captured the rhyming, and the poems are meaningful in English as you recite them.

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@CitizenWald @bookstodon
Not a book but the singer Billy Bragg collects ancient Celtic coins. https://numismatics.org/03-06a/

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taoish,
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@MisuseCase @doomscroller @bojacobs @sts @histodons

"The half-life of plutonium is 90 years" ??

What a wildly misleading statement. As if nuclear waste was 100% plutonium? (It's not, uranium is the main fuel ) and as if all plutonium isotopes were the same (also, no). And this completely ignores what is left after radioactive decay - the resulting elements can also be toxic and/or radioactive, often much longer.

GrittyLipids, to histodons
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Now reading Figes’ The Crimean War and I did not expect it to start with accounts of a bunch of priests and good Christians murdering each other in their “holiest” churches in Jerusalem in the 1840s. That’s interesting

@histodons
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#TheCrimeanWar
#history

taoish,
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@mike805 @GrittyLipids @bookstodon @histodons

QT @mike805
"Where is that church that is divided between sects with a line down the middle? Every now and then someone steps on the line and there's a rumble."

It's called "the back seat of my parents' car."

AimeeMaroux, to random
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I wrote a #guide for all my fellow creators starting out on #Mastodon:

https://www.eroticmythology.com/mastodon-for-creators/

Feedback is extremely welcome. This is a loving document, it can only be honed and get better with loving input from other users. What are your best tips for #creators?

#RIPTwitter #TwitterDown #TwitterMigration #twitter #Fediverse #fedi #introduction #NewHere #creator #WritersOfMastodon #ArtistsOnMastodon #musician #writer #artist #feditips #MastodonMigration

taoish,
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@AimeeMaroux @CoinOfNote
I search hashtags all the time. I get results from other instances.

And you can always manually QT - we did it on Twitter for years.

taoish,
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@AimeeMaroux @CoinOfNote
Wow, what a harsh response. Allow me to expand:
"Do you mind saying more about what is going wrong? I seem to get hashtag results from other servers, but now I am concerned that I'm missing a lot of results bc obviously I can't know what I'm not seeing. Do you get zero results ever from other servers? Or do you get some but know that others are missing? I'm trying to understand what the issue might be (for both of our sakes)."

taoish,
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@CoinOfNote @AimeeMaroux
Interesting, thank you. So it sounds like there isn't much an individual user can do except to make sure that you are on a bigger server?

taoish,
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@AimeeMaroux @CoinOfNote Wow, what a confusing yet interesting fact! So if I just follow people on different servers, I accidentally get wide coverage on my hashtag searches!? Never would have guessed that in a thousand years.

THanks!

taoish,
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@AimeeMaroux @CoinOfNote I apologize for not being more clear (and gracious). I actually thought about adding softening language but I was in a rush. Sorry!

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