Technical and Scientific Analysis of the Curse Tablet | Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum
Recent research gives us insight into the curse tablet from a technical and scientific point of view. How Was the Tablet Made? These drawings show three phases in the creation of a curse tablet: inscribing the text using a stylus on the lead sheet; rolling the text; "fixing" the curse (and the person to be cursed) with an iron nail. Images courtesy of Natasha Jones. Lead curse tablets were made by rolling out pieces of lead and inscribing it with a sharp pointed tool, generally a stylus. “In general, the tablets [at Hopkins] were rolled into cylindrical shape with the writing on the inside for protection against abrasion and for concealment from prying eyes; for, should the writing be injured in any way the formula would be of no effect, or, should human eyes read it, counter formulae might be composed or other means resorted to that might bring the evil of the formula back like a boomerang upon its author.” A detail of the top of the Plotius tablet. X-ray Fluorescence Analysis
Amo, Amas, Amat: Greco-Roman School Exercises – SARAH E. BOND
The first line of Euripides’ Bacchae reads: Although it was written by the playwright at the end of the 5th c. BCE, while in Macedonia, the words of Euripides continued to echo in schoolrooms throughout the Mediterranean. (Kind of like how everyone in the U.S. seems to read The Great Gatsby in 9th grade.) In fact, a papyrus from 2nd c. All over the ancient Mediterranean, boys and girls received schooling in various disciplines. πθ πγ ξη 89 83 68ξε πζ πη: 65 87 88. Students who got things wrong often received corporal punishment–a technique common in Greco-Roman antiquity and within the monasteries of the late antique world. First, I should note that no one has done more to examine and analyze these school exercises than Rafaella Cribiore, whose study of them in Writing, Teachers, and Students in Graeco-Roman Egypt (1996) asserted the significance of papyri, ostraca, and other materials that transmit such practicums. Like this: Like Loading...
La correspondance romaine - Civilisation romaine
La civilisation romaine est une civilisation d'écriture. Pourtant écrire est réservé aux riches Romains. Il faut en effet non seulement avoir les moyens financiers pour acquérir le matériel nécessaire mais aussi avoir appris à lire et à écrire. Les Romains écrivent des lettres pour affaires ou bien pour communiquer avec leur famille ou leurs amis. Le matériel Pour écrire en ville, c'est à dire intra-muros, les Romains utilisent des tablettes de bois : les pugillares. Pour écrire sur ces tablettes, on utilise un stylet (stilus) ou un poinçon de corne ou de fer. Jeune femme tenant des tablettes. Pour le courrier envoyé à l'extérieur de la ville (extra-muros), les Romains utilisent le papyrus d’Egypte. On écrivait sur le papyrus soit avec un calame soit avec une penna. - Calame (calamus) : plume fabriquée avec un roseau - Penna :plume d’oiseau On utilisait de l’encre (atramentum) contenue dans une encrier : l'atramentarium. L’acheminement du courrier L'acheminement du courrier prend du temps.
4. Palaeography - The Schoyen Collection
Palaeography, the study of the various types of old scripts and their development geographically and over time, is a vast field. The collection of over 2000 examples is large to cover the Western scripts, comprising Europe, Near East and the Americas. The rest of the world has not been collected with palaeography specifically in mind, but are nevertheless represented in examples elsewhere in the special collections. The first section 4.1. The beginning of writing and the first alphabets, is, nevertheless, aimed at being a fairly coherent presentation world-wide. The following extensive presentation, with 165 examples, is supplemented by the 33 examples in collection 7 Music. 4.1.
A is for … the Ancient Roman Alphabet! | The Petrified Muse
A is for … the Ancient Roman Alphabet! Ever wondered what Latin sounded like? Here is how Martianus Capella, a writer of the early fifth century A. In the translation of W. We utter A with the mouth open, with a single suitable breath. Like this: Like Loading... Related Why Learn a Foreign Language? The following considerations were part of a paper presented at a British Academy Early Careers Regional Event: 'Linguistic Diversity and Cultural Identities in Europe: Oral Voices and Literary Languages (Eurotales: an Exhibiting and Museographical Experiment)' on 11 April 2014 in Reading (organised by Dr Nadia Cannata, hosted by Dr Paola… In "Education" Shedding Some Light on the Eclipse Exciting times for stargazers: there will be a solar eclipse on Friday, 20 March 2015, the first UK-wide almost-total solar eclipse, as it has been pointed out. In "Carmina Epigraphica" The Uses and Benefits of Multilingualism The L’Africa Romana series is both a treasure trove and a complete nightmare. Berliner.
Les instruments de l'écriture
Michel Feugère, Pierre-Yves Lambert et al. constantinienne, de l'hypogée de Trebius Justus, sur la via Latina, qui montre réunis un coffret, qui est sans doute un écritoire, 2 codices de tablettes avec leur poignée de transport, un étui à stylets, un jeu de calâmes avec leur encrier, un volumen déroulé et une boîte cylindrique pour le rangement des volumes (Andreae, 1973, p. 464, fig. 633). Jusqu'à une époque récente, on s'est assez peu intéressé aux instruments de l'écriture 23, seul comptait finalement l'acte et surtout son résultat. Mais dans les fouilles archéologiques, ces outils sont nettement plus courants que les documents écrits. Nous n'avons pas abordé ici la question des boîtes à sceau qui sont souvent présentées dans les catalogues après les instruments de l'écriture. Soulignons enfin que cette recherche est, pour une bonne part, en cours d'élaboration. L'écriture au stylet Les tablettes de cire La tablette de cire est le support le plus courant de l'écriture au stylet. 23.
Free teaching materials! Writing in the Ancient World
We are excited to announce the launch of our free teaching materials on Writing in the Ancient World, which includes teaching packs on five writing systems, cartoons and ideas for play sessions. They were designed with age 8-11 children in mind (i.e. roughly Key Stage 2 in the UK), but we hope that they will be useful for a wide range of people and will reach an international audience. If you are interested in learning more, please click through to the links below. Writing in the Ancient World teaching materials You may also be interested in these resources: Write with CREWS videos Write your name in an ancient writing system worksheets Please remember to leave us some feedback if you download our materials! Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems (the CREWS project) has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 677758). Like this: Like Loading...
