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You're completely right that arguing between ideogram and logogram doesn't really get you very far, which was why I made the meme 🙂 Those who defend one or the other have to use a narrow definition in order to make their stance defensible!

This is great - thank you for taking the time!

This is fascinating. Is there anywhere where this "issue" is explained for non-specialists? Older resources used "ideogram" - but then there seems to have been an abandonment of that in favor of "logogram". But still not sure what the distinction is, if any? Aren't words by definition also ideas? 😖

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The Govan Sun Stone.

We think this was once a prehistoric standing stone that was repurposed as a Christian monument by the Clyde Britons in the early medieval period.

🎬 Dr Tom Horne, @hornesupremacy.bsky.social, Museum Assistant.

Photo of a round clay tablet with a drawing of coiled intestines on it

In ancient Assyria, scholars wrote questions in clay about events to come, intended for divine eyes.

The god Shamash would then leave his reply in the entrails of an animal, to be read by a trained seer.

There are 300+ of these.

Only two ask Shamash to overlook that they were written by a woman.

#DailyLoss: #4Q530 (EnGiants[b] ar) frg 19 (DJD 31:46) #LostDeadSeaScrollFragments

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#Carpathian Basin #Rovash is derived from #Proto-Rovash. It was used to write the #Avar language, #Turkic languages (inc. Oghuric), and Proto- #Hungarian in the Carpathian Basin, Pontic–Caspian steppe and Volga region
Full page: tinyurl.com/4axubndm
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#map
#matuww

Fantastic fish logos. Some nice use of symmetry, mirroring and pattern in these. Discover over 4000 more logos at logo-archive.org the internet's largest library of historical logos.

#THINGTHINGSOUND

L'art rupestre de l'Ennedi au Tchad : ce que racontent ces gravures du Néolithique Trésors cachés du désert tchadien, les peintures et gravures rupestres de l’Ennedi racontent une époque où le Sahara était vert. Un patrimoine fragile, préservé loin de toute affluence.

L'art rupestre de l'Ennedi au Tchad : ce que racontent ces gravures du Néolithique.
www.geo.fr/histoire/l-a...

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Reminder: Fasten your seat belts. The guest speaker for my Sunday zoom discussion group on March 30 will be Ugis Nastevics, the authority on Latvian knotted string "writing." Phenomenal! I'd never heard of it! Register at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet, which is the bottom portion of what was once a tablet with 3 columns of cuneiform text. It is photographed from the front, sides, and bottom, all displayed on the same image. There are parts lf three columns of cuneiform text presented. The bottom of the tablet which is pictured at the bottom of the image has museum identifiers written on the tablet which are “K. 4374” and “K. 8377”. The tablet appears black in parts suggesting it was burnt in antiquity.

“Do not act falsely and terror […] will not consume you.

“Do not slander, and you will not ponder grief.

“Do not commit evil, and you will not gain eternal distress.”

Proverbs from ancient Mesopotamia preserved on a broken clay tablet.

A tiny tent shaped stone building built of dry walling with green hills behind

In 2022 I was lucky enough to finally make it down to the #Dingle peninsula of south-west Ireland to visit the remarkable 1000 yr old #Gallarus Oratory

An early church & one of the most extraordinary surviving historic buildings in the country, built of drystone walling

📷 My own, May 2022

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When did modern humans reach each of the 7 continents? Ideas about the global dispersal of Homo sapiens have changed over time.

When did modern humans reach each of the 7 continents ? www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

An Anglo-Saxon name stone for Osgyth which was found on Lindisfarne in Northumberland. The stone dates from the mid 7th to 8th centuries, and possibly served as a grave marker. The stone can be viewed in the Lindisfarne Priory Museum. 📸 My own. #SaxonSunday #HolyIsland

Photo of a small fragment of a cuneiform tablet with a few lines of text divided into columns and rows that are broken. At the bottom is the British Museum watermark with ruler showing that the tablet is about 6cm wide and perhaps 3cm tall

Proverbs from ancient Mesopotamia are full of wisdom and humour. Keeping in mind that proverbs helped students practice the Sumerian language at school, it’s a reminder that teachers might have used humour to make lessons more memorable.

“Like a flatulent anus, the mouth produces too many words”

A section of Roman wall plaster with a volume of incised graffiti.

#EpigraphyTuesday – A particularly interesting graffito poem from Pompeii today, not least for the discussion as to whether or not it was written by a woman to another woman. #Latin #Pompeii 🧵🏺

Image: CIL 4.5296; Plate 8 in Milnor, 2014 (full reference at end of thread)

Today we visited the Wixárika community of Cerro de los Tigres, and participated in a event celebrating the Wixárika language. The community has made signs and books to allow children to engage with the language in school.

Photo of a broken clay tablet fragment seen from the front, back, and sides. There is a British Museum watermark at the bottom of the image.

If it looks like there are two different fonts on this clay tablet from ancient Babylon, that’s because there are.

In December of 603 BCE, a young scribe named Balāṭa made a faithful copy of a far more ancient inscription of Sîn-Kashid who had ruled Uruk over 1,000 years earlier.

I paid a visit to the National Museum of Ireland (@nmireland.bsky.social) in Kildare Street today to finally take a close look with my own eyes at the famous biscriptal and bilingual ogham inscription from Colbinstown / Killeen Cormac I (I-KID-001). The OG(H)AM team and I are planning to write...
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Two scribes depicted in an ancient Assyrian low relief, using styluses to write on clay tablets.

A cuneiform tablet with writing on it.

For me, the most incredible artefacts from the ancient world are the letters people wrote on clay tablets and sent to one another over thousands of years in Mesopotamia, going back to more than 5,000 years ago.

They contain recognisable humanity, warmth and humour. Here's a thread of my favourites.