More fun with deciphering Indian place names in #Syriac #colophons, this time with a side of Syriac #grammar

This #manuscript, APSTCH PIRA 00035, was copied by ܡܫܡܫܢܐ ܙܟܪܝܐ (Deacon Zechariah) who was a monk in ܕܝܪܝܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܬܐܘܡܐ ܫܠܝܚܐ ܩܕܝܫܐ ܕܒܐܛܝܟܠ: the monastery of St. Thomas the Apostle ... dbeʾṭíkal.

I transliterated the place name because that's the interesting part. Almost always, when you see the two letters ܕ and ܒ in the context of naming where something is, first instinct is to read them both as proclitics: ܕ as the relative pronoun "which" and ܒ as the preposition "in." So: the monastery "which [is] in"... and here you would expect the name of a village/area.

So, I start googling variations of the spelling "etikal", and end up with very little results. So, instead I do a google maps search for "St. Thomas monastery" or "Dayara Mar Thomas" just to see if anything pops up. One result catches my attention.

To the surprise of no one who works with #manuscripts, #colophons can be such a rich source of all kinds of information. Take this manuscript--APSTCH AYMA 00014 (which I posted a picture from yesterday)--for example. This image is the final page, with the colophon on the right surrounded by a decorative border. There are a few interesting things about this colophon that I will thread here below.

We've got conventions for webpages like:

- /now
- /humans.txt
- /colophon

Is there an established convention for a self-hosted #Linktree-style page of links to other accounts?

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More on the #nowPage:
https://nownownow.com/about

More on #humansTxt:
https://humanstxt.org/

I'm not sure the history of website #colophons, but if there's someone who should be cited, I'm keen to learn! #lazyWeb

So I know we've got conventions for pages like:

- /now
- /humans.txt
- /colophon

Is there an established convention for a #Linktree-style page of links to other accounts?

More on the #nowPage: https://nownownow.com/about

More on #humansTxt: https://humanstxt.org/

I'm not sure the history of website #colophons, but if there's someone who should be cited, I'd be interested to learn that history!