Jamey Walters · @jedwardwalters
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More fun with deciphering Indian place names in , this time with a side of Syriac

This , 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.

#syriac #colophons #grammar #manuscript

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Jamey Walters · @jedwardwalters
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To the surprise of no one who works with , 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.

#manuscripts #colophons

Last updated 1 year ago

We've got conventions for webpages like:

- /now
- /humans.txt
- /colophon

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

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More on the :
nownownow.com/about

More on :
humanstxt.org/

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

#linktree #nowPage #humanstxt #colophons #lazyweb

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

- /now
- /humans.txt
- /colophon

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

More on the : nownownow.com/about

More on : humanstxt.org/

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

#linktree #nowPage #humanstxt #colophons

Last updated 2 years ago