LucifarGundam @lucifargundam@social.cleverlibre.org

@icedquinn

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Instead what makes Roman Egypt’s uniqueness so important is one of the unique things about it: Roman Egypt preserves a much larger slice of our evidence than any other place in the ancient world.
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By far the most important of those things is paper, particularly papyrus paper. The Romans actually had a number of writing solutions. For short-term documents, they used wax writing tablets, an ancient sort of ‘dry erase board’ which could be scraped smooth to write a new text when needed; these only survive under very unusual circumstances. For more permanent documents, wood and papyrus were used. Wood tablets, such as those famously recovered from the Roman fort at Vindolanda, are fairly simple: thin wooden slats are smoothed so they can be written on with link and a pen, creating a rigid but workable and cheap writing surface; when we find these tablets they have tended to be short documents like letters or temporary lists, presumably in part because storing lots of wood tablets would be hard so more serious records would go on the easier to store papyrus paper.

Papyrus paper was lighter, more portable, more storeable option.
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In Egypt, by contrast, while the Romans disassembled the royal Ptolemaic court, they initially seem to have left much of its administrative apparatus of salaries administrators in place.
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Meanwhile the Romans did another odd thing in that they didn’t change: the currency system.
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But Egypt was not brought into the Roman currency system, instead maintaining the Ptolemaic currency system based on the silver tetradrachma (Egypt was already a very monetized economy under the Ptolemies).
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First, it is clear that Egyptian agricultural yields (understood as either production-per-unit-land-area or production-per-unit-seed-sown) were generally higher than what we think to have been the norm for much of the Roman world.
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First, it is clear that Egyptian agricultural yields (understood as either production-per-unit-land-area or production-per-unit-seed-sown) were generally higher than what we think to have been the norm for much of the Roman world.
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Or as I put it to my students, it is the case that the Pyramids (constructed c. 2670-2400) were about as old to Cleopatra and Caesar as Cleopatra and Caesar are to us now (in fact, if you do the math, the Pyramids were a little older).
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Older scholarship often posited a sort of culturally ‘eternal Egypt’ which resisted the pressures of ‘Romanization’ (itself now a contested term rarely used by scholars); that vision of a total lack of cultural exchange just doesn’t hold up to the evidence.
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Importantly, that means that Roman Egypt seems to have become a less unusual part of the Roman world as time went on.

#rome #romans #egypt #egyptians

@hackernews@die-partei.social

CERN and Fermilab jointly plan to provide AlmaLinux as the standard distribution for experiments at our facilities, reflecting recent experience and discussions with experiments and other stakeholders. AlmaLinux has recently been gaining traction among the community due to its long life cycle for each major version, extended architecture support, rapid release cycle, upstream community contributions, and support for security advisory metadata. In testing, it has demonstrated to be perfectly compatible with the other rebuilds and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

CERN and, to a lesser extent, Fermilab, will also use Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) for some services and applications within the respective laboratories. Scientific Linux 7, at Fermilab, and CERN CentOS 7, at CERN, will continue to be supported for their remaining life, until June 2024.

@hackernews@die-partei.social

tbh this has been annoying me for a long time

@JoshuaSharp
Would love to have one a la mode

@JoshuaSharp
That looks delicious

@neo
Woot de boot

@shibao @net
I got my motor bike license before the great war. you can get your license, it'll just take time.

@rdaily
One with a decorated tree instead of your own hand drawn cut out

@naamloos
This assumes that Dr Pepper was a guy

@net
Normal

@GNUxeava
Saving the world, one dead thing on a bun at a time!

@icedquinn
I swear, do I actually know you? You're always playing a game someone on my friendslist is playing...

@Synclair
Isn't this protocol for Black Friday? Do they not do this anymore?

@lmorchard @senj
Psychic?

@kiwiguy

I mean, obviously they learned not to talk to strangers...

#dnd #dungeonsanddragons