Only a few tickets left for the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @dh-researchhub.bsky.social Annual Digital Lecture. Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Copenhagen), When saving becomes loss: Archival memory in the digital age Nov 20, 18:00–20:00, University of London. Book now www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

The Cutting Edge: Conversations in Epigraphy Wedensday 29 October 2025, 5:00PM - 6:00PM. Alex A. Antoniou (University of Glasgow), Embracing and Encoding Uncertainty and Ambiguity: Emperor Worship and EpiDoc. ics.sas.ac.uk/events/embra...

The Cutting Edge: Conversations in Epigraphy Wednesday 15 October 2025, 5:00PM - 6:00PM. Ben Dewar (ICS), The Tablet Box in Context: Epigraphic Perspectives on the Construction of Historical Knowledge in Ancient Assyrian. ics.sas.ac.uk/events/table...

RIP Gaius Cassius Longinus, noble tyrannicide and conspirator in the assassination of Caesar. Died #onthisday 2067 years ago, after defeat at the Battle of Philippi. (He was later presented rather unsympathetically by both Dante and Shakespeare.)

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Online event: Classics Libraries and the Digital Classicist Wiki. Wednesday October 8, 14:00 BST. ics.sas.ac.uk/events/class...

RIP Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus ("Pompey the Great"), one of several would-be dictators and oligarchs put down in the first century BCE. Executed by the king of Egypt #onthisday 2073 years ago. 🪓

Some of my favourite parts of the EpiDoc Guidelines: (1) Appendix: Aligning EpiDoc with Egyptological philological markup epidoc.stoa.org/gl/latest/ap... (by Daniel A. Werning). This page shows traditional philological transcription + equivalent EpiDoc Guidelines for Egyptian epigraphy. #TEIFriday

💥 Congratulations to Dr @carolinebarron.bsky.social , who has a new publication in the journal 'Libyan Studies'! 👉 Dr Barron reassess 53 Latin, Greek and Latino-Punic inscriptions from a late-antique tomb excavated in 1926 at Sirte, Libya 🔗 Read here for free, open-access: doi.org/10.1017/lis....

Street art and civil society in post-2011 Tunisia: aesthetics, civic engagement and organisational challenges Anwar Tlili (KCL). A free webinar hosted by the British Institute of Libyan and Northern African Studies. Sep 25 at 17:00 BST. Open to all. Registration: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#EpigraphyTuesday Back when I was writing a chapter on ancient curses (itself an ancient time, as our students today would reckon it), I came across what was one of my favourite inscriptions: IG XII.1.737 (epigraphy.packhum.org/text/139285). The "Idameneus curse".

Happy 810th birthday to Kublai Khan, grandson of a legendary warrior who emerged victorious from fractious succession struggles to found a new imperial system and dynasty. Born #onthisday 1215 CE.

Happy 2088th birthday to Augustus, son of a legendary warrior who emerged victorious from fractious succession struggles to found a new imperial system and dynasty. Born #onthisday 63 BCE.

RIP Publius Vergilius Maro, known to us as Virgil, author of the Aeneid (and several collections of shorter poems), who died #onthisday 2044 years ago.

"not only have I gained experience of photogrammetry, but I have also gained a much deeper understanding of it through the errors and challenges faced in using the technology" Aimée Wilkinson reflects on a summer internship at the ICS supported by the Roman Society: ics.sas.ac.uk/blog/ehrenbe...

#WCCWiki is back on Wed 24 Sept 2025, 13.00-15.00 GMT. All warmly welcome. Online editing session with Zoom meeting: us02web.zoom.us/j/81829924385. Email [email protected] for more information

#EpigraphyTuesday Bertrand, Colosse de Memnon 28 (epigraphy.packhum.org/text/227949): Julia Balbilla, in Greek verse cut as a secondary inscription on the (then) ancient statue, tells of Hadrian meeting the statue of Memnon in 130 CE. (Photo by MusikAnimal, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

EpiDoc office hours currentepigraphy.org/2025/09/15/e... One hour a month will be set aside for anyone and everyone to drop in with questions about epigraphic/papyrological encoding, or any other aspect of #EpiDoc. No booking or advance notice required, just join the zoom link and say hi.

Happy 100th birthday to B.B. King, the king of the blues 🎸💯

In a super interesting meeting organised by Alison Shell (UCL English), Arnold Hunt (Durham palaeography) and Gesine Manuwald (UCL Greek & Latin) to discuss the potential for Neo-Latin studies using advanced computational methods (esp ML/AI): OCR/HTR, machine translation, computational linguistics.

Looking forward to beginners XPath tutorial this afternoon for our Painted Church Inscriptions of Mediaeval Cyprus project team, co-taught with the hyper-competent @emylonas.bsky.social (who really brings 90% of the expertise to the table).

Happy 539th birthday to H. Cornelius Agrippa, author of the De Occulta Philosophia libri tres and other occult, heretical and countercultural works, born #onthisday in 1486.

Happy birthday to the Roman Emperors Aurelianus (214, a commoner who rose through military ranks to take over and "save" the empire) and Honorius (384, son of the Eastern emperor who precariously governed the West and [in]famously allowed the Sack of Rome) #onthisday

Every conversation about the minutiae of how we're going to mark things up in an #EpiDoc project goes like this, honestly.

#TEIFriday Today's TEI-related musing brought by EpiDoc Guidelines local practice documentation and concordance (via the ogham.glasgow.ac.uk project). What if a letter is incomplete and could therefore be read as any of several potential letters?

Somehow managed to have not one, but TWO books published this month! 🎉 Thrilled to see these out: 👉 Vine-growing and Winemaking in the #Roman World (w/ @divali.bsky.social, M.S. Busana) 👉 Between Global and Local: Glocal Refractions in Roman Material Culture and Society (w/ R. Montoya González) /1

W00t! Three fantastic people, who now make @durhamclassics.bsky.social one of the premier centres for digital classics in the world. #DigiClass

Happy birthday today to both Gaius ("Caligula"), born 12 CE, and Commodus, born 161 CE. Neither generally thought of as among the "good" emperors, even by the standards of absolute autocrats...

#TEIFriday I've been looking at recommendations for the most interchangeable way to encode interoperability data from person datasets in TEI XML (which in some contexts is more useful and feasible than using RDF). Starting with first couple lines of code in this thread.

#EpigraphyTuesday 2/3 cent altar from Atrans dedicated to the majestic goddess Hecate in fulfilment of a vow by the Aurelius brothers Asclepiodotus and Lucius. CIL Ⅲ.5119. Hecate / Augustae / Aurelii As/clepiodo/tus et Luci/us pro sal(ute) / sua et suor(um) / v(otum) s(olverunt) l(ibentes) m(erito)

#onthisday 954 years ago, on 26 August 1071, the Byzantine army catastrophically lost the Battle of Manzikert to the Seljuk Empire, ultimately leading to loss of Roman domination over much of Anatolia.

1631 years ago today, the last Egyptian Hieroglyphic inscription was inscribed, the Graffito of Esmet-Akhom in Philae, dated on the "birthday of Osiris in the 110th year" ( 24 August 394). #epigraphy #Egyptology

#EpigraphyTuesday DEAE NEM REGINAE / CAEC ANTONINVS EX V P Caec(ilius) Antinoninus dedicated this to the goddess Nem(esis) Regina in fulfilment of his vow. (c.30cm high, 2nd/3rd cent., from Sarmizegetusa) EDH: HD047218 / PHI: PH299004

#TEIFriday A brief thread in (1) #EpiDoc history and (2) open data pubication:

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Happy 50th birthday today to the Rocky Horror Picture Show! ⚡🎸💄👩‍🎤💪🥩🛸

The "LOD People" activity of the @pelagios.bsky.social Network (pelagios.org/activities/p...) has been collecting samples of data from digital datasets that record historical persons (whether in LOD, TEI XML, CSV, or any other open format. (Do you have any such data we could look at?)

#epigraphytuesday Have been looking today at insaph.kcl.ac.uk/iaph2007/ which has approx 1500 Greek inscriptions (in #EpiDoc) browsable via various indexes and concordances. The website is slightly shaky, and maps and search no longer work as designed.

Shocking. Adam Bulow-Jacobsen should be ashamed of this censorship. Finding it hard to think of any reason not to quit the PAPY list just now.

The International Congress of Papyrology takes place next week in 🇩🇪. Usama Ali Gad and I are papyrologists but we have decided that we could not in our good conscience attend. In this post, we explainwhy we have decided to boycott this yr’s congress everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/g...

Starting in an hour! #TEIFriday

#DigiClass Digital editions of classical texts for GLAMs Chiara Senatore (La Sapienza, Roma) Friday 25 July 2025, 17:00 BST ics.sas.ac.uk/events/digit...

Speaking now!

#TEIFriday A reminder that if you have #EpiDoc related announcements (projects, jobs, publications, training) that you'd like to announce via Current Epigraphy, contact the EpiDoc rep, and they can circulate it for you. currentepigraphy.org/about/

This afternoon. Hope to see some of you there!

And back to #DigiClass London: Tomorrow: Ester Salgarella (Aarhus): Sort It, See It, Say It. Digital strategies to revive a Bronze Age Aegean Script 18 July 2025, 17:00 BST, in Senate House or stream live on Youtube: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/sort-... #DigitalHumanities

Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin. Call for Papers 2025/26 digital-classicist.bbaw.de/cfp #DigiClass #DigitalHumanities #AncientSky

Digital Classicist Seminar Berlin. Call for Papers 2025/26 digital-classicist.bbaw.de/cfp #DigiClass #DigitalHumanities #AncientSky

In #DigiClass seminar today, @ponteineptique.bsky.social talking about contributions of Distributed Text Services to TEI citation structures handling. www.youtube.com/live/s1po4jV... #TEIFriday