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Huw TD

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At Southampton there is a house I have admired, because from the side it looks so flat. Lecturer in Egyptology, University of Manchester Egyptian literature, literacy, textual transmission, and religion. 🏳️‍🌈

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · Nov 14

Out in print today: The Transmission of the Book of the Dead in New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara!

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/transmiss...

Also available Open Access from the Bloomsbury website

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 5h

Funnily enough, I just produced a revision mega-handout for some reading groups I run...

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 5h

what’s your most unhinged opinion about engagement farming?

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 5h

Absolutely! Its the same with different languages or language phases: comparatively few places teach Late Egyptian or Demotic, so taking the classes at a new institution where its available is only sensible.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 5h

Increasingly feel one of the problems is that the diversity of what higher ed is and involves is so poorly understood inside universities.

Also that we have appallingly bad institutional memories.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 5h

It might make sense in a field where the UG is all foundational methods which by PGR should be well understood, but... yeah.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 5h

The plaque is now in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore: art.thewalters.org/object/22.258/

Votive Plaque of King Tanyidamani, mid 2nd century BCE (Meroitic). Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923, 22.258 | The Walters Art Museum

Votive Plaque of King Tanyidamani, mid 2nd century BCE (Meroitic). Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923, 22.258

art.thewalters.org

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Garstang Museum of Archaeology @garstangmuseum.bsky.social · 6h

This glass plate #negative shows the reverse of a red slate votive tablet from site 6 (Lion Temple). It depicts King Tanyidamani in a long robe, with helmet-crown and sceptre. The original #photo was took in 1910 by Garstang during his #excavations of the ancient Sudanese site of Meroë. JG/M/E/7/b

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 5h

"Rain, Rain Barkels" was actually an unsuccessful followup to "Ice, Ice Baby".

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 6h

Why would you wish yet another framework into existence like this?

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 18h

i hear the hard part is mashing up the tables

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 22h

No, but I'd love to see Gielgud as a Klingon.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

*extremely gregory the great voice*
non angli s-

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maxanene.bsky.social @maxanene.bsky.social · 1d

He's with the Angles now

Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to Harald Godwinson who died 959 years ago today you would have loved Buckinghamshire Archives xx

A bit of the Bayeux Tapestry where Harold Godwinson gets shot right in the eye by an arrow.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

I mean 'downwardly mobile' is basically a description of the UK's professional middle class writ large at this point

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · Apr 13

babe, what's wrong, why are your cheeks so starved and why is your face so drawn? Why is despair in your heart and your face like the face of one who has made a long journey? Yes, why is your face burned from heat and cold, and why do you come here wandering over the pastures in search of the wind?'

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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 2d

For years my favorite example of a ridiculous yale college course was an English class called "Ways of Knowing in Nineteenth-Century American Literature". It represented to me the excessively niche "I only want to teach my fringe academic specialty" tendencies of the yale faculty and curriculum.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

a cartoon of a woman saying but she 's got a new hat surrounded by other people

Alt: Simpsons clip of Smithers appearing behind a group children in a shop, saying "but she 's got a new hat!"

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

"For it is of their nature that the jabberwocks of historical and antiquarian research burble in the tulgy wood of conjecture, flitting from one tum-tum tree to another."

Tolkien, "The Monsters and the Critics"

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed. It's also a rather impoverished conception of 'political'.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Was there a zither player nearby?

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Public prayer as stunt is a long-standing debate, iirc. It used to be the liberal objection to things like rosaries outside abortion clinics.

What struck me about the eucharistic procession in the photos was how traditional a lot of the stuff was. This clearly wasn't an ultraliberal parish.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

be fair, that many registered voters are going to be a big help in the midterms

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

The obsession with GKC is such a tell for yank-brain, too.

Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

You seem awfully sure they've read Chesterton. A lot of them seem to be into anime.

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Huw TD @huwtd.bsky.social · 1d

Oxford... do you mean the old CofE seminary near Reading?