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Talks by Brittany Hayden
P. Philadelphia 30: A Demotic Account from Early Ptolemaic Thebes
Numbers and Nouns in Demotic: Recent Work from the Chicago Demotic Dictionary
Numbers tend not to be discussed in much detail in Demotic grammars, beyond the simple observatio... more Numbers tend not to be discussed in much detail in Demotic grammars, beyond the simple observation that numbers usually follow the nouns they are counting. However, recent work at the Chicago Demotic Dictionary Project has shown that there is much greater variation in the ways numbers and nouns interact.
For example, the common understanding that feminine numbers are used to count feminine nouns is made more complicated when feminine units are involved. One such complication is found in Camel Bone Pisa 2, B2/2, where we find bnt.(t) mw 1.t "1 banatos-measure of water." In this case and others like it, the feminine number agrees with the feminine unit as opposed to the masculine noun. Where we have a masculine noun followed by a feminine number, we can therefore understand that a feminine unit must be missing.
This paper will present an overview of the variation we have observed in areas including the gender of numbers, numbers in association with genitival constructions, and word order. We will also demonstrate how this new information can help demotists to fill in lacunae and to better understand texts.
"Demotic 'Marriage Documents' as Evidence for the Perception and Use of Coinage among Egyptians in the Ptolemaic Period"
"Evidence for Coinage in Ptolemaic Family Archives: A Comparison of the Greek and Demotic Documents"
Papers by Brittany Hayden
CAA2014. 21st century Archeaology: concepts, methods and tools. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, 2015
This paper presents the results of the first three years of a new program of online museum educat... more This paper presents the results of the first three years of a new program of online museum education at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, a research organization and museum devoted to the study of the ancient Near East. For this new initiative in online education, the Oriental Institute has offered three completely web-based courses for adult learners. Using participant demographics, institute membership rates, satisfaction surveys, and course completion rates as metrics, we argue that our experiences with fee-based, closed access, online courses can contribute to the development of more successful open access courses (e.g. Massive Open Online Courses or ‘MOOCs’). We also explore the ways that online courses (both fee-based courses and MOOCs) can help to increase our public engagement and build our membership. Such a study has implications both for the Oriental Institute and for museum education programs more broadly.
Museum Exhibits by Brittany Hayden
P. Philadelphia 30: A Demotic Account from Early Ptolemaic Thebes
Numbers and Nouns in Demotic: Recent Work from the Chicago Demotic Dictionary
Numbers tend not to be discussed in much detail in Demotic grammars, beyond the simple observatio... more Numbers tend not to be discussed in much detail in Demotic grammars, beyond the simple observation that numbers usually follow the nouns they are counting. However, recent work at the Chicago Demotic Dictionary Project has shown that there is much greater variation in the ways numbers and nouns interact.
For example, the common understanding that feminine numbers are used to count feminine nouns is made more complicated when feminine units are involved. One such complication is found in Camel Bone Pisa 2, B2/2, where we find bnt.(t) mw 1.t "1 banatos-measure of water." In this case and others like it, the feminine number agrees with the feminine unit as opposed to the masculine noun. Where we have a masculine noun followed by a feminine number, we can therefore understand that a feminine unit must be missing.
This paper will present an overview of the variation we have observed in areas including the gender of numbers, numbers in association with genitival constructions, and word order. We will also demonstrate how this new information can help demotists to fill in lacunae and to better understand texts.
"Demotic 'Marriage Documents' as Evidence for the Perception and Use of Coinage among Egyptians in the Ptolemaic Period"
"Evidence for Coinage in Ptolemaic Family Archives: A Comparison of the Greek and Demotic Documents"
CAA2014. 21st century Archeaology: concepts, methods and tools. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, 2015
This paper presents the results of the first three years of a new program of online museum educat... more This paper presents the results of the first three years of a new program of online museum education at the University of Chicago’s Oriental Institute, a research organization and museum devoted to the study of the ancient Near East. For this new initiative in online education, the Oriental Institute has offered three completely web-based courses for adult learners. Using participant demographics, institute membership rates, satisfaction surveys, and course completion rates as metrics, we argue that our experiences with fee-based, closed access, online courses can contribute to the development of more successful open access courses (e.g. Massive Open Online Courses or ‘MOOCs’). We also explore the ways that online courses (both fee-based courses and MOOCs) can help to increase our public engagement and build our membership. Such a study has implications both for the Oriental Institute and for museum education programs more broadly.