Thoughts on Antiquity, Patristics, putting things online, information access, and more
A mention in a post at the Theology Archaeology blog drew my attention to the question of the sacrifice of children at Carthage. I think that we all remember that the Carthaginians sacrificed their children to their god. It is, indeed, one of the things we think of, when the word “Carthaginian” is mentioned. But […]
Microsoft do make some rubbish software, don’t they! This evening I sat down to work with the new Mithras pages that I am working on. This involves running a little web server on my PC, so that I can run some PHP scripts. Last weekend I installed (with some difficulty) IIS, FastCGI and PHP on […]
I’ve had an email with some material extracted from Matthieu Cassin’s thesis about Gregory of Nyssa, with the pages discussing the chapter titles in the manuscripts. I’ve not had a chance to read it yet, but it looks fascinating. Dr Cassin has done some real work here, and I will discuss it further. Also I […]
A post by a headbanger on a crank site drew my attention to this page on the web: Verjuy Mithra Temple, the Oldest Surviving Mithraist Temple in Iran By: Afshin Tavakoli Iran, Daily Newspaper No. 2802, May. 16th, 2004, Page 12 Abstract:Maragheh is one of Iran’s most ancient cities having its roots in legends. In the […]
Today I’ve obtained copies of some of the pages from Maarten Vermaseren’s great compilation of Mithraic inscriptions and reliefs, the Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae or CIMRM. This work is frankly very useful indeed. There are two volumes, and neither is at all easy to access, or available in print. I do wish that it was […]
Lots of excitement on the Methodius manuscripts this morning — Adrian Tanasescu-Vlas has been through the STSL Ms. 40 and identified the works on Methodius in it. I’ll do some more on this after lunch. He confirms that De lepra is in there, which means that it is now possible to get someone who knows […]
I’m still working on Ibn Abi Usaibia. Yesterday I started going through the .htm files exported from Abbyy Finereader, to rejoin paragraphs and add in page numbers. I’ve so far found two pages which are out of order in the manuscript — the numerals at the bottom in pencil were clearly added after the pages […]
I have now finished my book review of David Ulansey’s much read book. It is here. Ulansey’s ideas are interesting, but ultimately quite improbable. His star-map stuff just does not work. The tauroctony is a star-map of the sky as it was in 2,000 BC? I don’t think so, somehow. I don’t see anything that […]