Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Open Access Monograph Series: Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements

[First posted in AWOL 7 June 2011, updated 27  May 2026]

Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements (CHDS) 

     

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Open Access Journal: Classica Wratislaviensia. Series Altera

ISSN 0578-4387
published since 1961 as part of “Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis” (ISSN 0239-6661) 
Classica Wratislaviensia. Series Altera is a peer-reviewed academic journal published since 2023. The periodical is devoted to research in classical philology: Hellenism, Latin studies and Neo-Latin studies, as well as the reception of antiquity in the literature of subsequent eras.
Vol. 3 (2025)
  Published:     11-05-2026

Numer trzeci jest w całości dedykowany Pani Profesor Alicji Szastyńskiej-Siemion dla uczczenia i upamiętnienia Jej dorobku naukowego i osiągnięć dydaktycznych w rocznicę urodzin. Zamieszczone w tomie artykuły podejmują zagadnienia związane z trzema językami starożytnymi (sanskrytem, greką i łaciną) i obejmują czasy od epoki archaicznej, przez klasyczną, hellenistyczną, rzymską aż po wczesną nowożytność. Znalazły się tutaj zarówno studia literaturoznawcze i językoznawcze, jak i przekłady z łaciny i greki. Chociaż tematyka zaprezentowana w tym numerze jest niezwykle szeroka, w pełni oddaje różnorodność zainteresowań naukowych oraz siłę inspiracji Pani Profesor – wybitnej znawczyni literatury antycznej i nowołacińskiej, a także znakomitej tłumaczki, przede wszystkim poezji Pindara.

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Kobs, Aurochs and Clams: Human Behavior in Late Pleistocene Sub-Saharan Africa. The Middle Stone Age in the Affad Basin, Sudan

book 9789042954199 with isbn 9789042954199  

Kobs, aurochs and clams… even for professional archaeologists dealing with the Middle Stone Age (MSA) these names can be a mystery. Yet they were most likely the center of interest and most important target of members of Nile communities in the late Pleistocene. People focused on hunting and gathering these animals and they adapted their tools to do it as efficiently as possible. They used fire, made stone tools to cut the meat, and constructed wooden shelters and installations, but all of this was dedicated to hunting the kob or auroch and collecting clams. Stone by stone and bone by bone, the authors of this volume discover the world of these people, man’s role in this world and how this reflects on modern realities.
The monograph is designed primarily as a presentation of archaeological material. At the same time, however, it is a source of data for the debate on the adaptive capabilities of Northeastern African MSA human groups. Behavioral adaptation is a complex system of interaction of humans as social beings and their environment. The refitting of worked chert nodes gives an idea of learning processes by replicating these processes, but it also showcases the tools. Preferences for specific rock to make a given tool also reflects seasonal availability of the raw material. This comes across clearly also as access to diverse sources of animal protein. The authors’ research has given insight into the adaptive behavior of human groups from the PaleoAffad microregion over a relatively homogeneous timespan between 45 and 55 ka. This specific focus assures much better grounds for proposing hypotheses about the nature of the MSA than hitherto studies of collections from multiple sites considered out of context, independently of each other.

This book is published open access. It can be downloaded here. 

year: 2025
isbn: 9789042954199
e-isbn: 9789042954205
pages: XVI-398 p.
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La population de la région du Kouban occidental dans la première moitié du Ier millénaire avant J.-C. (d’après les monuments funéraires)

Publié le 27 Mai 2026 par Th. Castelli

Novichkin, A. V. (2006) : Население Западного Закубанья в первой половине I тысячелетия до н. э. (по материалам погребальных памятников) / Naselenie Zapadnogo Zakuban’ja v pervoj polovine I tysjacheletija do n. je. (po materialam pogrebal’nyh pamjatnikov), Anapa [La population de la région du Kouban occidental dans la première moitié du Ier millénaire avant J.-C. (d’après les monuments funéraires)].

Ce court ouvrage aborde les populations de la basse vallée du Kouban à partir des monuments funéraires datés entre le VIIIe et le Ve s. période marquée par le début de la colonisation grecque. On y voit quelques indices des contacts avec les population grecques.

110 planches.

Le livre en ligne : https://museumanapa.ru/%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b2%d0%b8%d1%87%d0%b8%d1%85%d0%b8%d0%bd-%d0%b0-%d0%bc-%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%81%d0%b5%d0%bb%d0%b5%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b5-%d0%b7%d0%b0%d0%bf%d0%b0%d0%b4%d0%bd%d0%be%d0%b3%d0%be-%d0%b7%d0%b0%d0%ba/

http://apsnyteka.org/1918-novochikhin_a_naselenie_zapadnogo_zakubania_2006.html


 

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Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Hebrew Text Stripper

This is a pilot web-app created by David M. Carr, Union Theological Seminary using OpenAI ChatGPT. It has been initially tested and debugged against manually-stripped files, but it is to be used at your own risk. Help improve the tool through using the comment box below to report problems or additional wished-for features.

This web-app builds on work regarding text density and scroll carrying capacity in my article “Background and Aims of a Scroll Approach to the Formation of the Bible” Advances in Ancient Biblical and Near Eastern Research 3 (2023):9–79 (open access at https://doi.org/10.35068/aabner.v3i2.1035; ls per cm figures on last column of spreadsheets of pp. 67-70) and (with Asaf Gayer) “Text Density, Scroll Carrying Capacity and Pre-Biblical Sources: How a Hellenistic Period Shift in Text Density is Relevant to Hypotheses about the Formation of the (Hebrew) Bible.” ZAW 136 (2024):1–27 (spreadsheet comparing text density is stored at this link; column E is characters per square cm).

Input a figure for letter spaces per linear centimeter (e.g. 31.2 ls per cm is a figure calculated from the Berlin 13446 Ahiqar Papyrus) and/or input a letter spaces per square cm figure (e.g. 1.34 for Ahiqar).

Then there are two work-flows.
1) Fetch and strip - you specify different verse ranges, line by line in the “Fetch by Bible Reference” field and then click the “Fetch and Strip” button. Note: the Hebrew text here is sourced from the superb Sefaria database that can be located at https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Tanakh. Many thanks to this foundation for provision of this and many other resources to support study.
2) Paste your own Hebrew text - you use Accordance or another Hebrew text source to copy a given text range or ranges (e.g. specify Hos 1:1-14:8; Amos 1:1-9:15 or Gen 1:1-2:3; 5:1-32 and then copy text) and then paste that text into the “Input text” field before clicking the “Strip text” button. Note that there will be a minimal difference between character counts for files generated from a program like Accordance and the ‘fetch and strip’ workflow, mostly reflections of very slight textual differences between the Accordance text and the text drawn from the Sefaria database.

The webapp will strip the text and output it as a stripped text at the bottom of the page that can be copied and pasted elsewhere. The app also will generate a count of characters (including one space between each word) and figures projecting hypothetical scroll length (based on the letter spaces per linear cm figure inputed) and cm2 hypothetical space covered by characters (based on the letter spaces per square cm figure inputed).

 

 

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Excavations at Carthage, 1925: A Preliminary Report

Cover of Excavations at Carthage, 1925 - A Preliminary Report  
Open Access : 9780472910038, December 1969
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12945699

Through lectures, conferences, and publications, Byron Khun de Prorok emphasized the significance of salvaging valuable artifacts from the ancient site of Carthage before it was fully overtaken by new construction. In response, the Franco-American excavation team at Carthage in 1925 published this preliminary report of their key results. While the most vital finds, primarily from the Punic stratum in the precinct of Tanit, would be published later, this preliminary report abstains from correlating these finds with others previously discovered in North Africa, Sardinia or Motya. George R. Swain, the University of Michigan's Near East Research photographer, provided numerous illustrative photographs, while George F. French and W. E. Renner contributed survey drawings and maps, respectively. This detailed report preserves the findings from the Carthage site for readers. 


 

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Peloponnesian War: the Thomas Hobbes translation

Peloponnesian War: the Thomas Hobbes translation
By Thucydides
Translated by Thomas Hobbes
Edited by David Grene
Introduction by Bertrand de Jouvenel
Cover of Peloponnesian War - the Thomas Hobbes translation  
Open Access : 9780472911295, December 1969
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12946814

For 2400 years, Thucydides' account of the great war between Athens and Sparta has been the classic example of how a democracy can defeat itself. An eyewitness, Thucydides recognized in the disastrous outbreak of political frenzy a prolongedd act of suicide. The war shattered the Greek city states and marked the downfall of the glory that was Greece. Hobbes, too, was witness to political catastrophe—civil war threatening England, and on the Continent that breakdown of civil order which posterity would call "the Thirty Years War," as the Peloponnesian War had been called. Hobbes saw, as Thucydides had, the repeated folly that men commit. Against the turbulent background of the early 17th century, in the ageless English of King James's day, he wrote "by long odds the greatest translation of Thucydides in English." 

 


 

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