Christian Epitaphs from Egypt and Nubia at the Museo Egizio, Turin: A Dossier

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques van der Vliet

The article provides an overview of the collection of Christian inscriptions on stone from Egypt and Nubia in the Museo Egizio. In addition to various listings, a full text is given of all sixteen Greek and Coptic inscriptions from Egypt, eleven of which are published here in editio princeps. ملخص يقدم المقال لمحة عامة عن مجموعة الكتابات المسيحية المنقوشة على الحجر، محفوظة في المتحف المصري وأصلها من مصر والنوبة. بالإضافة إلى قوائم مختلفة، حيث يعرض نص كامل لجميع الكتابات اليونانية والقبطية الستة عشر التي أصلها من مصر، تم نشر هنا الطبعة الأولى لأحد عشر نصاً منها.

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lixue Zou ◽  
Xiwen Liu ◽  
Wray Buntine ◽  
Yanli Liu

PurposeFull text of a document is a rich source of information that can be used to provide meaningful topics. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how to use citation context (CC) in the full text to identify the cited topics and citing topics efficiently and effectively by employing automatic text analysis algorithms.Design/methodology/approachThe authors present two novel topic models, Citation-Context-LDA (CC-LDA) and Citation-Context-Reference-LDA (CCRef-LDA). CC is leveraged to extract the citing text from the full text, which makes it possible to discover topics with accuracy. CC-LDA incorporates CC, citing text, and their latent relationship, while CCRef-LDA incorporates CC, citing text, their latent relationship and reference information in CC. Collapsed Gibbs sampling is used to achieve an approximate estimation. The capacity of CC-LDA to simultaneously learn cited topics and citing topics together with their links is investigated. Moreover, a topic influence measure method based on CC-LDA is proposed and applied to create links between the two-level topics. In addition, the capacity of CCRef-LDA to discover topic influential references is also investigated.FindingsThe results indicate CC-LDA and CCRef-LDA achieve improved or comparable performance in terms of both perplexity and symmetric Kullback–Leibler (sKL) divergence. Moreover, CC-LDA is effective in discovering the cited topics and citing topics with topic influence, and CCRef-LDA is able to find the cited topic influential references.Originality/valueThe automatic method provides novel knowledge for cited topics and citing topics discovery. Topic influence learnt by our model can link two-level topics and create a semantic topic network. The method can also use topic specificity as a feature to rank references.


2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-286
Author(s):  
Jihong Liang ◽  
Hao Wang ◽  
Xiaojing Li

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the task design and assignment of full-text generation on mass Chinese historical archives (CHAs) by crowdsourcing, with special attention paid to how to best divide full-text generation tasks into smaller ones assigned to crowdsourced volunteers and to improve the digitization of mass CHAs and the data-oriented processing of the digital humanities.Design/methodology/approachThis paper starts from the complexities of character recognition of mass CHAs, takes Sheng Xuanhuai archives crowdsourcing project of Shanghai Library as a case study, and makes use of the theories of archival science, including diplomatics of Chinese archival documents, and the historical approach of Chinese archival traditions as the theoretical basis and analysis methods. The results are generated through the comprehensive research.FindingsThis paper points out that volunteer tasks of full-text generation include transcription, punctuation, proofreading, metadata description, segmentation, and attribute annotation in digital humanities and provides a metadata element set for volunteers to use in creating or revising metadata descriptions and also provides an attribute tag set. The two sets can be used across the humanities to construct overall observations about texts and the archives of which they are a part. Along these lines, this paper presents significant insights for application in outlining the principles, methods, activities, and procedures of crowdsourced full-text generation for mass CHAs.Originality/valueThis study is the first to explore and identify the effective design and allocation of tasks for crowdsourced volunteers completing full-text generation on CHAs in digital humanities.


2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-97
Author(s):  
Xiaoxia Yao ◽  
YongChao Zhao

Purpose – To purpose of this study is to describe and to demonstrate the value of a consortium purchase of the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses full-text database (PQDT) in China. Design/methodology/approach – The authors provide a first-person account based on their professional positions at the China Academic Library & Information System Administrative Center. Findings – That the PQDT database has steadily increased the use of theses in China with more institutions subscribing every year. The PQDT full-text database has become one of the most cost effective databases cooperatively purchased in China. Originality/value – One of the few in-depth studies of the use of the PQDT database.


2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (4/5) ◽  
pp. 293-307
Author(s):  
Mark Edward Phillips ◽  
Daniel Gelaw Alemneh ◽  
Brenda Reyes Ayala

Purpose – Increasingly, higher education institutions worldwide are accepting only electronic versions of their students’ theses and dissertations. These electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) frequently feature embedded URLs in body, footnote and references section of the document. Additionally the web as ETD subject appears to be on an upward trajectory as the web becomes an increasingly important part of everyday life. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The authors analyzed URL references in 4,335 ETDs in the UNT ETD collection. Links were extracted from the full-text documents, cleaned and canonicalized, deconstructed in the subparts of a URL and then indexed with the full-text indexer Solr. Queries to aggregate and generate overall statistics and trends were generated against the Solr index. The resulting data were analyzed for patterns and trends within a variety of groupings. Findings – ETDs at the University of North Texas that include URL references have increased over the past 14 years from 23 percent in 1999 to 80 percent in 2012. URLs are being included into ETDs in the majority of cases: 62 percent of the publications analyzed in this work contained URLs. Originality/value – This research establishes that web resources are being widely cited in UNT's ETDs and that growth in citing these resources has been observed. Further it provides a preliminary framework for technical methods appropriate for approaching analysis of similar data that may be applicable to other sets of documents or subject areas.


2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bijan Kumar Roy ◽  
Subal Chandra Biswas ◽  
Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay

Purpose This paper aims to provide an overview of the emergence of resource discovery systems and services along with their advantages and best practices including current landscapes. It reports the development of a resource discovery system by using the “VuFind” software and describes other technological tools, software, standards and protocols required for the development of the prototype. Design/methodology/approach This paper describes the process of integrating VuFind (resource discovery tool) with Koha (integrated library system), DSpace (repository software) and Apache Tika (as full-text extractor for full-text searching), etc. Findings The proposed model performs like other existing commercial and open source Web-scale resource discovery systems and is capable of harvesting resources from different subscribed or external sources replacing a library’s OPAC. Originality/value This discovery system is an important add-on to designing a one-stop access in place of the existing retrieval silos in libraries. This system is capable of indexing a variety of content within and beyond library collections. This work may help library professionals and administrators in designing their discovery system, as well as vendors to improve their products, to provide different library-friendly services.


2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 75-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Brammer ◽  
Jens Olf

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to give an overview about the framework of copyright law and licences as well as the development of German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) full-text supply services within that framework. The change of German copyright law in 2008 posed a challenge to TIB’s full-text supply services. While TIB can deliver on the basis of a statutory limitation any document to customers within Germany via mail and fax, there are restrictions for electronic delivery. Design/methodology/approach – The article describes the framework of German copyright law and licences for document delivery as well as activities of TIB to continue servicing customers in a best possible way within the existing framework. Findings – Licence agreements with publishers or intermediaries such as Rights Reproduction Organizations are now in place to allow delivery of electronic documents on a wide scale. Within this complicated framework of licence agreements, digital rights management (DRM) systems are a challenge for customers and the delivery service. However, it can be noted, that a simple watermark suffices nearly all publishers in agreements covering pay-per-view delivery of generic digital article files, and only 25 per cent require strict DRM for document delivery scanned from the print. At the same time, TIB looks for more customer-friendly DRM systems. Also, TIB is looking for ways to cooperate with partners to raise efficiency gains and to offer a more convenient service to its customers. Finally, TIB experiences that inadequate copyright law still poses a major hindrance for the international exchange of scientific information being part of its collection. Originality/value – The article describes the development of document supply services of the major TIB publications. It also shows the barriers which inadequate copyright law poses to the exchange of scientific information.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Laroche ◽  
Gloria Rosati

Two Egyptian heart-scarabs, both connected to the city of Cefalù, are presented here: the first one, at Palermo, Museo Archeologico Regionale, was published in 1942 by E. Bacchi, as one of the few heart-scarabs found outside Egypt, on the rock of Cefalù. Its text has been checked and some new readings are proposed. Inscribed for a Chantress of Bastet, it shows a peculiar decoration on the first register, looking like a lunette, then the traditional beginning of Chapter 30B of the Book of the Dead, typical for heart-scarabs, combined with a rare variant. It had remained a unicum until July 2020, when a parallel in the Berlin Museum came to our knowledge, and this is published here as well: the same decoration in the first register and the same text, although shorter. Mainly on the base of prosopographical data, a date to the Twenty-second Dynasty seems appropriate for the Berlin scarab, and consequently for the one in Palermo, which could even belong to a member of the same family. The owner of the scarab in Berlin shows a set of priestly titles that are typical of Per-Sopdu/Saft el-Henna, which therefore may be an indication of its origin. The second “Sicilian” scarab, held at Cefalù itself in the collection of Enrico Pirajno Baron of Mandralisca, after whom the Museum is named, is unpublished. Its owner was another Chantress, serving Amun-Re, and nearly contemporary: it is to be dated to the early Third Intermediate Period, Twenty-first – Twenty-second Dynasty. In the Appendix at the end, notes and remarks on the provenance of the two scarabs in Sicily, documenting mainly the discovery of the Palermo scarab. ملخص تظهر هنا قطعتان تمائم جعران القلب المصرية، ترتبط كلاهما بمدينة تشِفالو: القطعة الأولى، معروضة في المتحف الأثري الإقليمي في مدينة باليرمو، نُشِر عنها في عام 1942 من قبل إ. باكي كاحدى جعران القلب الفرعونية النادرة التي وُجدت خارج الأراضي المصرية. تَحدّث المؤلفون عن ظروف اكتشافها، تحققوا مرة أخرى من النص واقترحوا بعض القراءات الجديدة. كانت تملكها مطربة باستيت، وهو لقب لم يتم تناوله  ضمن المنشورات الحالية لمجموعة جعران القلب. إنها على غرار جعران القلب التي لم ينشر عنها ومحفوظة في برلين، من المدهش أنها تنتمي على الأرجح إلى شخص من نفس أفراد تلك العائلة، تعود غالباً إلى تاريخ الأسرة الثانية والعشرين. كانت تنتمي جعران برلين إلى والد الإله أنوبيس وإلى الكاهن بتاح-ون، وهو لقب خاص لبير-سوبدو / سفت-الحنا. تميمة جعران القلب الثانية الموجودة في جزيرة صقلية، محفوظة في نفس موقع تشِفالو، في متحف ماندراليسكا، لم يُنشر عنها أي مقال: مرة أخرى شاءت الظروف أن تكون مالكتها مغنية، لكنها كانت  تخدم آمون رع. تعود القطعة أيضاً إلى أوائل فترة الإنتقال الثالثة. 


2017 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Töpfer

The mummy bandage of Monthemhat, son of Nestanetjeretten, carries Book of the Dead Spell 133 and parts of two funerary spells which were added to the corpus of Book of the Dead spells after the Third Intermediate Period. Since Supplementary Chapters 174 and 173 – according to Pleyte's numbering – are (so far) attested only on papyrus Leiden T 31, this mummy bandage must be regarded as a unique example of those compositions. The aim of the article is to make the texts on the bandage available in transliteration, translation and commentary in order to provide a basis for future Egyptological discussion about the contextualization of these supplementary chapters. It is most likely that the Pleyte spells 173 and 174 were not originally intended to be part of the Book of the Dead; rather, they must have originated as Osirian liturgies and were added into the corpus of funerary texts at a later date. The owner of the mummy bandage, named Monthemhat, seems to be identical with a member of a family of Theban priests attested from the Ptolemaic till the early Roman Period on the evidence of numerous funerary papyri and temple graffiti. According to the known genealogy of that family, Monthemhat lived in the 2nd half of the 1st cent. BC and/or the early 1st cent. AD. The Turin mummy bandage Cat. 1873.2 may thus well be the latest known attestation of Book of the Dead spells on textiles. ملخص البحث: لفائف مومياء منتو-م-حات، ابن نس-تا-نتشرت-تن، تحمل التعويذة (133) وأجزاء من إثنين من التعاويذ الجنائزية التى أضيفت كمدونة (كمجموعة) لتعاويذ كتاب الموتى بعد عصر الإنتقال الثالث. بما أن الفصول التكميلية أرقام (173 ، 174 ) تم توثيقها فقط وفقاً لترقيم بلينى على بردية ليدن ( T 31 )، يجب إعتبار لفائف هذة المومياء كمثال فريد لهذة التكوينات. فالهدف من هذا المقال هو جعل النصوص الموجودة على اللفافة متاحة كتابةً وترجمةً وتعليقاً وذلك من أجل توفير أساس لمناقشات علم المصريات فى المستقبل فى سياق هذة الفصول التكميلية. كما أنه من الواضح أن تعاويذ بلينى أرقام (173 ، 174 ) لم يكن القصد منها فى الأساس أن تكون جزءاً من كتاب الموتى بل بدلاً من ذلك نشأت كطقوس دينية أوزورية وأضيفت لأصول هذه النصوص الجنائزية فى وقت لاحق. ويبدو أن صاحب لفائف المومياء متشابه لعضو من أعضاء عائلة كهنة طيبة والتى أستمرت من العصر البطلمى وحتى الفترة المبكرة من العصر الرومانى كدليل على العديد من البرديات الجنائزية ونقوش المعابد. وطبقاً لعلم الإنساب المعروف لهذه العائلة فإن منتو-م-حات قد عاش فى النصف الثانى من القرن الأول قبل الميلاد أو فى أوائل القرن الأول الميلادى. لفائف مومياء تورين والتى تحمل رقم كتالوج Cat. 1873.2 ربما أنها أحدث إثبات معروف لنصوص كتاب الموتى مكتوبة على النسيج.


2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Debra S. Ketchell ◽  
Ryan Max Steinberg ◽  
Charles Yates ◽  
Heidi A. Heilemann

<span>This paper describes one approach to creating a search application that unlocks heterogeneous content stores and incorporates integrative functionality of Web search engines. LaneConnex is a search interface that identifies journals, books, databases, calculators, bioinformatics tools, help information, and search hits from more than three hundred full-text heterogeneous clinical and bioresearch sources. The user interface is a simple query box. Results are ranked by relevance with options for filtering by content type or expanding to the next most likely set. The system is built using component-oriented programming design. The underlying architecture is built on Apache Cocoon, Java Servlets, XML/XSLT, SQL, and JavaScript. The system has proven reliable in production, reduced user time spent finding information on the site, and maximized the institutional investment in licensed resources.</span>


Queeste ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 334-353
Author(s):  
Ana Pairet

Abstract This article examines the multilingual transmission of the late medieval idyllic romance Paris et Vienne. The genealogy of incunabula editions of this pan-European bestseller is obscured by an unsettled bibliographical record. The little-known first French edition printed circa 1480 is likely the first printing in any language. The analysis highlights textual and paratextual transformations from the French editio princeps to Gheraert Leeu’s illustrated edition of 1487. I argue that the second Lyons imprint is the source of Leeu’s edition or that they share a common source. Identification and collation of French sources brings into focus the transmission process and illuminates the ways in which the illustrated editions published in Antwerp accelerated circulation across Europe. Leeu’s multilingual adaptation offers a rare example of triangulated cross-cultural transfers, in which translations of French-language texts were produced with an eye on the Anglophone print marketplace.


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