Oct. 9th, 2010

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Back from a trip; lots of catching up to do. In the meantime, the radio show Big Ideas has an edition on Muslim Women Reformers - grab it while the MP3 is still available.
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"I devoted a day to the revision of the text, but having much under-estimated its height above the ground, I was not able to get level with the top of the lines and copied them in great discomfort, although I obtained the longest ladder the village could produce and lashed it to the top of my own. After this delay the day proved scarcely sufficient for the task. I returned another day and tried to revise certain passages with the help of field-glasses, but found this method quite unsatisfactory."

- Archaeologist N. de G. Davies struggles to copy Hatshepsut's inscription at Speos Artemidos, 1931

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