Dan Levene,Jewish Aramaic Curse Texts from Late-Antique Mesopotamia: “May These Curses Go Out and Flee”

CHAT: A System for Stylistic Classification of Hebrew-Aramaic Texts

1. Objectives CHAT, is a fully self-sufficient system for pre-processing, vectorizing and categorizing Hebrew-Aramaic texts. CHAT is designed to work with Bar-Ilan's corpus of Hebrew-Aramaic texts incorporating over 128 million words spanning more than two millennia. The kinds of problems that are of interest for this system do not concern categorization by topic but rather a number of scholarl...

Bone traumas in late antique populations from Croatia.

We present the results of the analyses of traumatic bone injuries in two Late Antique (3r to 5th century AD) skeletal samples from Croatia: Zadar--located on the eastern Adriatic coast, and a composite skeletal series from continental Croatia consisting of skeletons from Osijek, Vinkovci, Strbinci, and Zmajevac. The osteological series from continental Croatia are related to settlements located...

Modern Reception of Late Antique Egyptian Textiles

riographic project in a volume celebrating the work of Thomas F. Mathews, who, as my teacher and mentor, set me on the path of an intellectual adventure that never fails to surprise.1 At the center of this study is a set of Late Antique Egyptian textiles assembled in an album for Dikran Ga rabed Kelekian (1868–1951), an influential collector and art dealer who was a source of historic and archa...

Ondine's curse--never too late.

a normal life span. It has recently been shown that CCHS confers risk for adverse neurocognitive outcome [3]. Visuoperceptual reasoning and clerical/ visuographic speed appear particularly vulnerable. In this issue of IMAJ, Cohen-Cymberknoh and colleagues [4] present an interesting and unusual case of a 12 year old girl with late-onset CCHS that was suspected and diagnosed only after she failed...

Ancient Letters. Classical and Late Antique Epistolography [book review]