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"11 July 706? Justinian II blinded Patriarch Callinicus and exiled him to Rome: Theophanes, a.m. 6198. When he arrived, he was buried inside a wall. After 40 days, the pope (John VII) opened the wall and found him still alive. He died four days later, presumably on 23 August, his feast day."
ιε ₯εΆζ°ζ代? ctext.org announced today that AI translations of "all texts in the pre-Qin and Han corpus that previously lacked translations, the 25 dynastic histories, as well as hundreds of other historical, literary, philosophical and poetic works" have been added today: (1/2)
An oblong sheet of written parchment, formerly sealed.
The only surviving original Carolingian "littera formata", like a passport for a priest. Issued in Lucca, now in Pavia. archiviodigitale-icar.cultura.gov.it/it/185/ricer...
And btw: really helpful google maps with pins for individual graves at famous LA cemeteries π www.hollywoodgraveyard.com/maps
spent the afternoon exploring hollywood forever cemetery in LA: a lot of people have seen photos of the celeb graves etc, but the variety and scale and extravagance of monuments was extraordinary, as was the picture on immigrant communities in LA
Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum now open access csel.at/en/publikati...
I had a very interesting interview with a couple of very smart people who run the SkΓ©psislamica podcast. I talked about a wide range of things, from the late Sasanian world to the 10th century Samanids and blabbered on for 2.30 hours and they left it as it was! I am sorry!
youtu.be/xTuk8u7TTu4?...
i'm up at Brown Univ for this today: fun line up on water in late antiquity. And more snow than i've seen in years.
as an Indiana undergrad alum -- in programs that were all deleted -- and with lots of family who also graduated from deleted programs at Indiana, i just... ::sigh:: we are all happy for IU football, but indeed this comes at precisely the wrong time. So sad/angry for big state public universities...
Wild that Indiana is going to finally win a national football championship in the year that IUβs leaders & the stateβs government decided it was no longer a serious research university.
can't wait to wake up tomorrow and read all about it
*name that palace*?
this evening i'm working on trace of a plan from part of famous early medieval palace -- early twentieth century, quite famous excavator and draftsman.. any guesses?
(Lord help me w/ the shading and details for tiles and hypocaust.. still figuring out quite how to manage it..)
This is all coming along.. missed the Jaharis post a few months ago. Giving talks here and there on the topic as we all keep writing and writing and writing... If interested for your dept drop me a line
A trade for Ukraine and Taiwan
With all the ancient/modern restoration diagrams and image labels, and exhibition signage etc kimbellart.org/sites/defaul...
And also quite wow
Did not anticipate an unfinished Dacian, wow
Quite lovely to finally see the Portus harbor relief
going to see Torlonia collection tmrw
You know it's good when a restaurant serves only one thing
El pastor es mi seΓ±or
Heinrich Kiepert's *Formae Orbis Antiqui*: 25 maps of 36 planned were published, 1903-1908ish.. All available for high resolution download from UChicago isac-idb.uchicago.edu/results.php?... someday i'm going to wallpaper my bathroom with these.
βοΈso cold π₯Άhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RTFi-y9WgM
πΆ all i want for Christmas, is yoooouuuu, baby πΆ www.abebooks.com/first-editio...
Interesting project on graffiti at Hagia Sophia in IST www.hagiasofiagraffiti.com/schemesconte...
According to the tenth century Sylloge Tacticorum, a cityβs water supply could even be poisoned with βthoroughly-ground river pufferfishesβ¦those who drink become immediately swollenβ, besides the more obvious alternatives of βmanure, [or rotten] fish and conchβ.
