Auch Gedanken fallen manchmal unreif vom Baum.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Mantiq al-tayr ‘The Speech of the Birds’
Among the recently digitised Persian manuscripts of the British Library is the manuscript BL Add. 7735, an illustrated copy of Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭār’s Manṭiq al-ṭayr ‘The Speech of the Birds’. The Asian and African studies blog of the British Library discusses this manuscript and the Manṭiq al-ṭayr in a multi-part blog, featuring superb miniatures. To […]
EAGLE 2014 International Conference
International Conference on Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Digital Cultural Heritage in the Ancient World 29 September–1 October 2014, Paris, France Organised by EAGLE with the support of Collège de France Chaire Religion, institutions et société de la Rome antique and École Normale Supérieure. For more information, see here.
A goddess or a queen?
Shenkar, Michael. 2013. A goddess or a queen? On the interpretation of the female figure on the relief of Narseh at Naqš-e Rostam (in Russian). In Scripta Antiqua, vol. 3: Edward Rtveladze felicitation volume. Moscow. Read there article here. Abstract: The article offers a reassessment of the identity of the female figure found on the […]
Introduction to TEI and oXygen
As part of our group’s ongoing engagement with the Yasna, I will be leading a one day workshop on TEI and oXygen. This is an internal meeting with the aim of introducing the participants of the Yasna project to the ideas behind encoding texts and exploring features offered by the oXygen XML editor. This is […]
پرده نقشدار زرتشتیان
متن نسخهی فارسی مصاحبه من با دکتر ستوارت دربارهی نمایشگاه شعلهی جاویدان را اینجا بخوانید.
Sasanian elites and kinship ties
I found Prof. Macuch’s lecture at the FAMES, entitled Kinship Ties and Fictive Alliances in Sasanian Law, very engaging. The lecture was in two parts. First, she gave an overview of the Sasanian interpretation of kinship and discussed wealth, property management and inheritance. In the clearly structured introduction she defined the various models of matrimony such […]