@oybjo

Ph.D. in Assyriology and the Hebrew Bible from @UTAustin. Reading Akkadian letters 24-7, and enjoying the first 66% of history #mesopotamia. (he/him)

 Austin, TX
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Joined August 2009
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New article out! Well, pretty old research but it's finally published. Go! Read! Enjoy! (It's on the imperative...) academia.edu/49222553/The_Mo…

The Morphology of the G-Stem Imperative in Semitic

I will assess earlier approaches to the morphology of the G-stem imperative in Semitic and mount a reconstruction that supports a specific set of disyllabic patterns for the imperative of the basic...

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Selena Wisnom@LSWisnom23 Nov 2023
Want to know when the next UK general election will be? I asked the livers to find out! Watch the live extispicy and interpretation here: queens.ox.ac.uk/news/reading…

Reading the past: ancient liver divination - The Queen's College, Oxford

Former Junior Research Fellow at Queen’s Dr Selena Wisnom has returned to the College as a Fellow Commoner (visiting academic). She’s recently been putting her research into action by demonstrating...

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Had the students making their own cartouches last week. They were pretty great at it! #ancientEgypt #hieroglyphs
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New article out today! Primarily a study in "try-a-funny title" and "cannot-with-this subtitle".
Title "The missing link: there is no copula in Akkadian" and abstract of the article, stating (unsurprisingly) that there is no copula in Akkadian. Øyvind Bjøru and Na'ama Pat-El

ALT Title "The missing link: there is no copula in Akkadian" and abstract of the article, stating (unsurprisingly) that there is no copula in Akkadian. Øyvind Bjøru and Na'ama Pat-El

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I've been doing Tablet Tuesdays with my Akkadian 1 class, and 12 weeks in they were able to read these tablets today! We had a blast! #cuneitwitter #texas
Cuneiform tablets semi-artistically leaning against flower pot

ALT Cuneiform tablets semi-artistically leaning against flower pot

Cuneiform tablet gently held by me. Newly filed nails on my thumbs for this.

ALT Cuneiform tablet gently held by me. Newly filed nails on my thumbs for this.

Two cuneiform tablets side side on the table. Same text on both.

ALT Two cuneiform tablets side side on the table. Same text on both.

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pu-hu-úr ma-a-tim ge-ri-ma-an-de-er i-pu-uš-ma ša-ak-nam eš-ša-am ni-su-uq-ma i-na e-ka-al a-lim uš-ša-ab
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“The assembly of the land gerrymandered, but we elected a new governor, and he will live in the palace.”
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My feed is full of Mesopotamian letters, thanks to @IrisKamil and just about everyone else I follow. I couldn't possibly play favorites among the gems in these vast corpora, but let me plug an Old Akkadian masterclass in lighting a fire under someone's ass! #cuneitwitter
Old Akkadian clay tablet with eight lines of cuneiform on either side

ALT Old Akkadian clay tablet with eight lines of cuneiform on either side

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Oracc: build-oracc.museum.upenn.edu… CDLI: cdli.ucla.edu/search/archiva… #cuneiform #mesopotamia
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And here is @SophusHelle's list of recent highlights! xitter.cf/SophusHelle/status/158…
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Timelines of Arabic workshop will take place this weekend, Saturday and Sunday. The Zoom link for the event is: utexas.zoom.us/j/95218284968
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This was just delivered. Super excited to dive in and use it to let students “meet” the people of the societies I teach, thanks to @ahpod!!
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Does All-Purpose include aleuromancy? 🧐 #cuneitwitter
Our Ancient Middle East class mixed iron oxide, charcoal, and acacia gum arabic to make inks, carved some wooden skewers into styli and wrote hieratic on papyrus! My students are the friggin’ best!!! #egypt #writing
Ink and hieratic writing

ALT Ink and hieratic writing

Hieratic writing on papyrus

ALT Hieratic writing on papyrus

Mathematical papyrus and drawing of official with meal of two ducks

ALT Mathematical papyrus and drawing of official with meal of two ducks

Drawing on papyrus of Hathor licking a man back to life

ALT Drawing on papyrus of Hathor licking a man back to life

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The Museum of Cultural History in Oslo concludes that a number of artifacts in the Schøyen collection, seized by the financial crimes unit last year, were stolen from Iraq and must be returned. Finally! #progress #cuneitwitter nrk.no/kultur/deler-av-schoy…

Deler av Schøyen-samlingen må returneres

Deler av samlingen til Martin Schøyen er tatt ut på ulovlig vis fra Irak og må returneres. Det er konklusjonen i en ny rapport fra Kulturhistorisk museum.

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I mean, just look at what my students made this week! We split reeds, kneaded clay and had a blast exploring the rich world of cuneiform writing (and annoying little brothers)! #cuneitwitter
Student writing Old Assyrian clay tablet with reed stylus

ALT Student writing Old Assyrian clay tablet with reed stylus

Student copy of tablet with early cuneiform writing about quantities of calfs and donkeys

ALT Student copy of tablet with early cuneiform writing about quantities of calfs and donkeys

Student copy of Old Akkadian letter saying "I am annoyed" with stick figures of her being annoyed with her little brother.

ALT Student copy of Old Akkadian letter saying "I am annoyed" with stick figures of her being annoyed with her little brother.

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Akkadian Wordle: ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ ⬜ 𒅗 🤔
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Teaching early Egypt has revealed that "Hierakonpolis" is not something I can pronounce nonchalantly in front of students. I'll call it Nekhen which does not paralyze me and matches at least some consonants of its actual name. #winwin
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