Palm Sunday donkey research:

How quickly would a donkey carrying Jesus walk through palm branches thrown into the road?

Evidently, the Palm Sunday donkey would never have made it into Jerusalem. Jesus would have had to wait for the donkey to finish eating the palm fronds laid in the path by the crowd.

#Asstodon - a reliable first source for cutting-edge #asscademic research: the cutting-edge for the palm fronds being a rather blunt machete.
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#PalmSunbray #theology #newtestament

@Bongolian

Are you suitably qualified to assert that? The minimum #asscademic requirement is an MA with distinction in Donkey Ears Semiology and Linguistics.

@amyfou

A good article which complements the references to similar #asscademic studies reported in posts here earlier this year and in 2022.

There is a grest deal of work being done, combining archaeology and advanced genetics, mapping the domestication of #equusasinus.

It is also good to see Andy Merrifield's excellent book getting some recognition, after all these years! ('The Wisdom of Donkeys' was reviewed in our #libraybooks series last year.)

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*UPDATE* re. yesterday's donkey in the Bellini picture (#donkeyoftheday 71).

The plot thickens! More is forthcoming on this subject. Many thanks to @tinebeest for help obtaining a journal article, and I am now in touch with its author, Professor Norman Hammond at Cambridge University, who is open to my idea of the possible Syrian ass in the Bellini picture.

This is where #asscademic opinion hits the reality of top level Cambridge art-history. 😬 Watch this space in the next days.

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@equusasinus

#sunbray #asscademic #asstodon

Naughty Ruby!

#Sunbray service.

No sophisticated #asscademic content from me today! Here on #Asstodon we cater for all tastes. But mainly oranges at the moment.

We get them in this season from the farmer who takes the donkey manure away. Windfall oranges are the donkeys' twice-a-day treat.

Here we see Matilde braying to remind her Peasant to deliver the mid-morning oranges.

https://youtu.be/kajtUIeVnC0

@flopagus

You may have jumped the gun and commented before I uploaded the 3rd post in the thread?

The heron - it is suggested there - is a symbol of Egyptian monasticism (presumably 4th century) and the onager the same. I would strongly argue the case for the onager being a symbol of the 5th century Syrian desert tradition, simply because that connects strongly with Umbria. (Saint Isaac of Spoleto etc.)

There's a huge #asscademic task here! Ph.D. thesis anybody?

For a detailed treatment of this, see the web page: "The sacred symbolism of Giovanni Bellini," suggesting the heron standing nearby is a bird of the Nile delta, so refers to Egyptian desert monasticism.

The author says the onager also refers to that. I would argue my case presented above: the onager is a reference to Syrian monasticism. It is more than an #asscademic question: the Syrian hermit history of Umbria would have been known to Bellini.

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http://www.3pp.website/2011/01/giovanni-bellini-st-francis-in-desert.html

Barry Thomas (d.2013) worked on many classic BBC dramas, Dixon, Z Cars, Softly Softly, Dr Finlay’s Casebook, The Onedin Line, etc. He retired when script editor of East Enders in the 1990s. If you are interested in old British television, I recommend following @oldbritishtelly

My continuing posts here on #Asstodon remain focused on exploring the world of the #donkey and its cultural significance. Today’s example is but one episode. There’s more #asscademic work to come!

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@libroraptor @inquiline @acousticmirror

The etymology requires #asscademic research.

#donkeyoftheday 52:

Contrapposto French âne ear-semaphore in the Poitevin dialect.

It is high time for some budding #asscademic to write a Ph.D study of the langues d'oil of the regional ânes de France, and possibly an ear-semaphore graphic phrase book?

Passing the time of day, the best that Dalie the #donkey and I could manage was "Bonjour jolie âne..." which is hardly stimulating conversation if you are stuck in a small meadow all day.

#Asstodon #equusasinus #ÂnesDeMastodon

@cmorris @bespacific

A few of us who keep donkeys have quietly developed the #Asstodon hashtag over a couple of months and have been quite surprised by the sudden influx of interest due to the hashtag being promoted recently. (We still don't know quite how that happened!)

There is a place for pretty pictures of donks, which seems to be what most people like here, but the hashtag can also provide a platform for more serious welfare issues and #asscademic exchanges!

#equusasinus #donkey

@bespacific

I read this BBC article after a donkey enthusiast friend in Ireland sent it to me and I spent much of today exploring all the academic links provided. They take you to places that took me months of research last year!

My particular interest is the sea trading movement of donkeys from the Middle East around the southern Mediterranean to Spain. Also the northern route of Romans trading donkeys into Spain (BC/AD). If you chance upon links, I'd be grateful!

#Asscademic #Asstodon

Great academic paper for all #Asscademic donkey people out there!

"Historical management of equine resources in France from the Iron Age to the Modern Period" in Journal of Archaeological Science: Vol. 40, Part B (December 2021.)

An open access article with superb bibliography of equine archaeozoology research. A wealth of information about equine husbandry and trade in donkeys and mules in France in Roman and medieval times.

Hardcore #Asstodon here folks!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X21004624