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Symbols, myths, anthropology, art, linguistics, history. This is a notebook of TILs: things I wish I could learn more about! he/him. For my daytime alter-ego, see @khakhalin.bsky.social Support Ukraine! 🇺🇦

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 1d

November 3, 182 CE: An enslaved child named Epaphroditus (8) falls from a window straining to see the castanet-dancers at a festival in the village of Senepta in Roman Egypt (P.Oxy. 3 475). A public physician (accusative: ‘δημόσιον ἰατρὸν’) is called for & a proper burial papyri.info/ddbdp/p.oxy;...

HGV: P.Oxy. 3 475 [source] [xml]
Title Report of an Accident
Publications P.Oxy. 3 475 More in series P.Oxy.More in series P.Oxy., vol. 3
W.Chr. 494
Sel. Pap. II 337
C.Pap. Hengstl 95
Support/Dimensions Papyrus
Post-Concordance BL Entries BL-online; I 323; V 76; VIII 235; IX 180; XI 144; XII 135
Translations Winter, Life and Letters (1933), S. 133; Lewis, Life in Egypt (1983), S. 106.; Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne (2003), Nr. 197; Straus, L'esclave (2004), Nr. 11.; Pap. Lup. 11, 2002, S. 174f.
Origin Oxyrhynchos More from Oxyrhynchos
Material Papyrus
Date 3. Nov. 182 More from the period between 182 CE and 183 CE
Commentary Zu Z. 20 vgl. ZPE 133, 2000, S. 190. Neudruck: Pap. Lup. 11, 2002, S. 173-175. Vgl. Marcone , Medicina e società, S. 194-202.
Mentioned Dates
Z. 13-35:3. Nov. 182
Print Illustrations Ancient Faces (1997), 249, S. 186f.
Subjects Anweisung des Strategen an einen Amtsdiener; zusammen mit einem Arzt die Leiche eines Sklaven zu untersuchen; der einen Unfall hatte; Kopie der Anzeige des Unfalls bei einem Fest
Images https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24685/lot/207/?category=lis...
License Creative Commons License © Heidelberger Gesamtverzeichnis der griechischen Papyrusurkunden Ägyptens. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Trismegistos: 20611 [source]
Publications P. Oxy. 3 475 (Grenfell, Bernard P. / Hunt, Arthur S.; 1903) = Chrest. Wilck. 494 (Wilcken, Ulrich / ; 1912) = Sel. Pap. 2 337 (Hunt, Arthur S. / Edgar, Campbell Cowan; 1934) = Hengstl, Griechische Papyri 95 (Hengstl, Joachim / ; 1978) = Winter, Life and letters in the papyri p. 133 (Winter, John Garrett / ; 1933) = Lewis, Life in Egypt p. 106 (Lewis, Naphtali / ; 1983) = Burnet, L'Égypte ancienne 197 (Burnet, Régis / ; 2003) = Straus, L'esclave. Recueil de documents papyrologiques 11 (Straus, Jean A. / ; 2004) = Capasso (ed.), Dal restauro dei materiali (Pap. Lup. 11) p. 173-175 no. 23 (Tedeschi, Gennaro / ; 2002 [2003]) = Keenan e.a. (ed.), Law and legal prac…

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 3d

Gamelan + EDM feels like such an obvious mix, and yet all i can find on spotify are gamelan-like synths in boring western log-termpment. All xenhamonicity - lost 😔

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 3d

And then on top of that, it makes you oddly irresponsible towards your environment. Eschatology is not necessarily better then rapture, it puts so many things outside of the frame of interest. For Paul it was all sex. For modern ppl, it's often climate, environment. Not sure I like that.

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 3d

"eh, at some point we'll get good bodies, but these here are bad! See, they have cancer and all sorts of warts. Sex is just like that. And your thoughts as well. And dishes cooked in the style of non-believers". The idea of future theofication of flesh doesn't make you life-positive.

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 3d

I am not sure tbh. I used to try to force myself to think so, because of the the idea that it accepts physicality as something good, as something not necessarily evil. Shifts the distinction between good and evil from dualistic to behavioral plane. But. Firstly, it doesn't prevent ppl from saying:

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 3d

These are so awesome!!

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 3d

Gosh, it's obviously the smallest of all the world's problems, but how abominably distasteful this is!..

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday at about 9 pm: walking past the gates that lead from our inner yard to the street. Someone is clearly trying to open the gate, but failing.

We opened the gate... Two racoons!! They hesitated for a good minute, then left the yard, both of them, disappeared into the outer dark

two racoons peeking through a door

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 3d

Wait, do you find the problem in that it is lost from "pop christianity" these days, or do you find the problem in the original eschatological vision itself?

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 3d

This belief (that is still canonical) always co-existed with some idea of a "temporary heaven" for saints though, as well as a hell and a purgatory (in Catholicism). Saints are _somewhere_ when you pray to them.

So it's not like the "temp heaven" didn't exist in middle ages. It was totally there!

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 4d

And they say modern dating is hard! Not a phone in sight, but a stomach full of scales...

dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social · 4d

dgplacenames.github.io/gregor/repor...

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 4d

til Ola is a super-versatile name
in Scandinavia it's masc, a short for Olaf
in Arabic-speaking countries it's a normal fem name
in Russian, it's a short for Olga, itself Scandinavian Helga
in Polish, it's a short for Oleksandra, which is a South Polish / Ukrainian pronunciation of Alexandra

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 4d

I don't know neither of these women! But wow what a TIL! "British fascist aristocrat"! And they were like Kardashians of the 1930s?? Except smarter and weirder! Wow!

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 4d

An informative thread on AskHistorians about past cases when demographics in a country "flipped" (or shifted from marginal to sizable minority) because of different birthrates:
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Mention: Lebanon, Russia, Ireland, Serbia, China, S Africa, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Turkey, USA

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 4d

I checked, and it's true, it's not a joke! She left him for a lover tho, and then he got angry, converted to hardcore Catholicism, opposed non-Latin mass, and hated the welfare state. I had no idea. I will forget it again probably.

David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 4d

Evelyn But The Girl.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 4d

The Haunt, 1969, painting by by L.S. Lowry (The Lowry). #NorthernArt

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 4d

On Android "igloo" looks like an African thatched red round house (very much not an igloo!), making me confused 😅

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 5d

Turnip. Only turnip. Always turnip.

carved turnip

carved turnip with lights

a pumpkin-style turnip, still scarier

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 5d

Hanifism = pre-Islamic Arab Abrahamic monotheism distrinct from either Christianity or Judaism. Wikipedia isn't sure if they really existed.

Sabianism = may be Mandaeans, but it's not clear. Could also be Manichaeans, or some other syncretic/gnostic sect. (I love to think they were Mandaeans tho!)

Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 5d

This map by @xruiztru shows the diverse religious landscape of the Arabian Peninsula at the beginning of the 5th century, a century before the rise of Islam.

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Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · Jun 29

A pretty cool collection of Tuareg amulets on ebay; saving it here for visual reference

full collection

left side

right side

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Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 5d

Church of Saint Paul the Apostle, Damascus r/brutalism

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 5d

I've never been to the place, but have just randomly found it on google earth once, and I'm in awe ever since!

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · Jul 18

Interestingly, at least in photos, they look way more futuristic from afar, or from a drone, and almost "normal" from up close. I think this weird effect comes into play, as with mountains, that typically look steep from afar, but "flatten" as you approach them. Same here!

A house with skirt-terraces from the ground level. A lawn with trees, then this thing looms above you, like a giant rock

These same houses from a drone, standing in a row

Same terraces with trees from the ground level

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 5d

til @brutalibre.bsky.social exists, and they have just posted new awesome recent photos from Alt Erlaa!

Brutalismbot @brutalismbot.com · 5d

Been to Alt-Erlaa in Vienna yesterday, thought my fellow brutes might enjoy the sight r/brutalism

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 5d

Oh so Anglicanism is now splitting into conservatives (GAFCON) and normies?? The theological dispute seems to be on whether homophobia and sexism are a critical part of church identity or not. I never heard of gafcon until today, but apparently there are lots of them!?

Arseny @elstersen.bsky.social · 6d

Supercool! Although even in English, the wife of an uncle is also an aunt, right? Maybe aunt-in-law, but it's till framed as a subtype of an aunt. Not descent, but rather a description of a role? :)

Classificatory systems for the win!