From: owner-anenews-digest@ (ANEnews Digest) To: anenews-digest Subject: ANEnews Digest V1998 #141 Reply-To: Sender: owner-anenews-digest@ Errors-To: owner-anenews-digest@ Precedence: bulk ANEnews Digest Friday, September 11 1998 Volume 1998 : Number 141 anenews Carleton Hodge anenews Job: SHADOW STEREO AND THE INTERPRETATION OF ANCIENT DOCUMENTS anenews Administrative anenews FWD: Hoch's _Middle Egyptian Grammar_ anenews Workshop: The Internet and Research and Teaching in Middle East Studies anenews Aramiac stele from Bukan, Iran ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:00:10 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Carleton Hodge Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 00:07:37 -0400 >From: "Peter T. Daniels" > >This message was received from a friend at Indiana. > >Mikael A Thompson wrote: >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 09:13:04 -0500 (EST) >> From: Linguistics Department >> Cc: nquinn@ophelia.ucs.indiana.edu >> Subject: Carleton Hodge >> >> Just to let you know that I was called by Pat Hodge this morning. She >> told me that Carleton Hodge passed away this morning, Tuesday, September >> 7th, around 8:00am. For those of you who might not have known him real >> well, he was a long time faculty (and dear friend to a lot of people) >> in the Linguistics Department who was Emeritus retired. Ann Baker > >This was my immediate response-- > >In April in New Orleans he put us all to shame walking back and forth >between the NACAL and AOS hotels two or three times a day. The morning I >left, we met up again accidentally in a usedbook store. I'd found him a >real treasure -- a Gregg Shorthand Bible from the turn of the century. > >Our meetings won't be the same. > >Carleton pioneered Hausa studies in the US, and was an eccentric >Egyptologist, a great teacher and friend. >-- >Peter T. Daniels > grammatim@worldnet.att.net > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1998 09:45:13 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Job: SHADOW STEREO AND THE INTERPRETATION OF ANCIENT DOCUMENTS Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The following advert has been posted by the Engineering Dept for a joint project run by Mike Brady and myself. The doctorate would have to be in Engineering Science, not Classics, but we wonder whether there is not an interested and qualified person with a classical background who might like to apply. Anyone wanting to discuss this informally is invited to contact me as soon as possible by email or phone (01865-276202). Alan Bowman ******************************************************************************* UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD DEPARTMENT OF ENGINEERING SCIENCE GRADUATE STUDENTSHIP SHADOW STEREO AND THE INTERPRETATION OF ANCIENT DOCUMENTS A graduate studentship is offered for work on a 3 year, EPSRC-funded project on the application of shadow stereo in the interpretation of ancient documents. This collaborative venture, with the Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, will develop a user interface for software applying a new technique called "phase congruency shadow stereo". Applications are invited for candidates, with at least an upper second class degree, from one of the two following backgrounds: a) Classics graduate with interest and expertise in computing, wishing to apply that expertise to identify knowledge eg about Latin stylus character formation, which can usefully be used by historians reading such tablets. b) Science graduate with interests in image analysis and working in an inter-disciplinary team. Further particulars for both positions may be found at http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk or obtained from Mr C.J. Scotcher, The Senior Administrator, University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ to whom written applications should be made, enclosing a curriculum vitae and the names and addresses of two referees one of whom should provide an academic reference. Please quote "RAS/JMB" in all correspondence. The closing date for applications is 18th September 1998. Applicants are asked to arrange directly with their referees for references to be sent by this date. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:37:43 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Administrative The server operating the ANE lists and the Oriental Institute Web site has been non-functional since about 2 am Chicago time, Wednesday September 9th. It's now back in operation. It's not clear however, whether mail to ANE has been lost. If you don't see something you might have posted to it appear in the next day or so, please repost it. But let's give it a chance to spew out the accumulated mail first. The Web site: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/default.html etc. is also now functional again. Apologies for any inconvenience. - -Chuck Jones- cejo@midway.uchicago.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:55:49 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews FWD: Hoch's _Middle Egyptian Grammar_ Forwarded on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: James_Hoch@mail.campuslife.utoronto.ca (James Hoch) Greetings! As the 1998 school year is now upon us, I'd just like to send a short update on the ordering status of my book, _Middle Egyptian Grammar_, as there are a few changes. If this is of no interest--you know where your delete button is! And sorry if you received more than one copy of this message. The price is: 1 copy $50 (U.S.)--(payment by personal check or money order in U.S. dollars) 5 or more copies--40% discount. Price includes postage by surface mail, but other arrangements are possible. Payment should be made to the order of: "Benben Publications". The 70-page sign-list will be ready to ship in a couple of weeks. It is being produced and distributed separately as an additional booklet at the current time. The cost is $12 (U.S.). Please check with me about a discount, as the publisher did not specify one way or the other. Orders may be sent by e-mail to me at the following address: james_hoch@campuslife.utoronto.ca fax: (416) 971-2362] Orders may also be sent by regular mail to the publisher: Benben Publications/SSEA Publications 1483 Carmen Drive Mississauga, Ontario L5G 3Z2 Canada More details can be obtained from me, and in the very near future at the following web site: http://www.utoronto.ca/gsunion/hoch/middleegyptiangrammar.html Best wishes, James Hoch ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:47:27 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Workshop: The Internet and Research and Teaching in Middle East Studies Forwarded from the Middle East Librarians Association list on behalf of the undersigned, to whom responses and inquiries should be directed. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: straley.1@osu.edu (Dona S. Straley) The MELA-sponsored workshop "The Internet and Research and Teaching in Middle East Studies : A Workshop" will be presented by Brenda Bickett, Robin Dougherty, Ali Houissa, and Dona Straley at the MESA annual meeting on Saturday, December 5, 8-10 a.m. We hope to see you at the workshop. There will be very short (5-7 minutes) presentations by the participants, and the remainder of the time will be spent in audience discussion of ideas, issues, current practices, future developments. #^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^#^ Dona S. Straley Associate Professor and Middle East Studies Librarian 308 Main Library, The Ohio State University 1858 Neil Ave. Mall Columbus, OH 43210-1286 614-688-8796 (ph.) 614-292-1918 (fax) straley.1@osu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 16:18:19 -0500 From: "Charles E. Jones" Subject: anenews Aramiac stele from Bukan, Iran Some years ago on ANE there was mention by Abbas Alizadeh of the looting of a fortress near Bukan, northern Kurdestan: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/V01/v01.n011 A couple of years later I pointed out the publication of photograph of an Aramiac stela from the same site in an Iranian publication: Mirath-e Farhangi No. 12 (Summer 1994), pages 209: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/V03/v03.n077 This stele has now been published by A. Lemaire in Studia Iranica 27:1 (1998), pp. 13-30. He has it as a fragment of a commemorative royal inscription, which he dates to the end of the 8th c. BCE, containing 13 lines of curses mentioning the gods Haldi and Hadad It's certainly worth a look. - -Chuck Jones- cejo@midway.uchicago.edu ------------------------------ End of ANEnews Digest V1998 #141 ******************************** Back issues are available on the Oriental Institute World-Wide Web (WWW) site at: http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/ANE/OI_ANE.html