Rachel Wright<p>Mary and her colleagues lived in a rebuilt house of <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Akhenaten" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Akhenaten</span></a>'s time, and I tried several times to make sense of the very few photos in the archive that showed it.</p><p>In the end, I gave up entirely on an embroidered representation, using the grid reference instead, to recall not just the dig house, but the wind blown sand sticking to Mary's freshly-typed sheets.</p><p>As for the watercolour - I found a few details in my reference photo by tone-chasing, but I have absolutely no confidence that Mary would recognise the house from my efforts!</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/DreamsOfAmarna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DreamsOfAmarna</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/HandEmbroidery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HandEmbroidery</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Watercolour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Watercolour</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/EgyptExplorationSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EgyptExplorationSociety</span></a></p>
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Open Book Publishers<p>📢New Publication Alert!</p><p>📜Step into the past with 'Arabic Documents from <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medieval</span></a> Nubia' by Geoffrey Khan, out now!</p><p>This volume presents an edition of a corpus of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arabic</span></a> documents datable to the 11th-12th century that were discovered by the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/EgyptExplorationSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EgyptExplorationSociety</span></a> at the site of the <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Nubian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nubian</span></a> fortress Qaṣr Ibrīm (situated in the south of modern <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Egypt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Egypt</span></a>). </p><p>The edition of the documents is accompanied by English translations and a detailed analysis of their contents and historical background. </p><p>They are of particular importance since previous historical studies from the perspective of <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Arabic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arabic</span></a> sources have been almost entirely based on <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/historiographical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historiographical</span></a> sources, often written a long time after the events described and distorted by tendentious points of view.</p><p>👉This is the 24th volume published as part of our '<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Cambridge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cambridge</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Semitic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Semitic</span></a> Languages and Cultures' series.</p><p>Access at <a href="https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0391" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">openbookpublishers.com/books/1</span><span class="invisible">0.11647/obp.0391</span></a></p>
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