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paregorios

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Roman Historian and Human Digitalist. Living in Pittsburgh and working for New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Care and feeding of the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org). Formerly https://scholar.social/@telliott.
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paregorios, to AncientHistory
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Last week in the of ancient places, the editorial college published 19 new and 185 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, and Richard Talbert.

A complete list with links is on the blog at https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-22-29-april-2024

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paregorios, to random
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C'mon people now ... add alt text to your image posts right now.

paregorios, to AncientHistory
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An inscribed Roman altar with game board scratched into the back, posted (nice photos, both front and back, but no alt text ... see my thread below) by @Rome_and_stuff:

https://mastodon.social/

It has been published as follows:

EDCS-17200267 = EDR029435 = TM 69126 = CIL 06, 00182 (p 3004, 3755, 4130) = CIL 06, 30708 = CEACelio 00321 = D 03720 = AE 2001, +00219.

http://www.edr-edr.it/edr_programmi/res_complex_comune.php?do=book&id_nr=EDR029435

Alt text:

First photo shows the rough-cut rear face of a rectangular stone altar into which an apparent game board has been cut. The board consists of three concentric squares, with straight lines connecting the center of each side of the outermost square to the corresponding center of each side of the innermost square.

Second photo shows the front of a rectangular, inscribed altar, bearing a five-line Latin text in early imperial characters with common abbreviations ... 1/2

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paregorios,
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2/2 ... the inscribed text reads:

Fortunab(us)
bal(nei) Verul(ani)
C(aius) Hostilius
Agathopus
d(ono) d(edit)

I don't see how this monument can be called "funerary". Rather, I'd say "dedicatory". I'll try a translation:

To the Fortunae(!) of the Valerian Baths, C(aius) Hostilius Agathopus gave (this altar) as a gift.

Per EDR, the inscription was first seen in Rome, but not in situ (i.e., we don't know precisely where it was from). EDR reports it last observed in the Antiquarium Comunale del Celio, NCE 4993, but now ???

Any Roman topographers know anything else about a "bal(neum) Verul(anum)" vel sim?

Any Roman epigraphists know where this inscription is now held?

Any game historians recognize the board?

paregorios, to random
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For many years Brill's digital resources, though paywalled, have returned to unauthenticated requests a useful summary and citation for each discrete article or entry (in encyclopedic works and corpora). An exemplary practice in my view.

This morning, all those URIs are redirecting to the Brill home page. I dearly hope this is a temporary misconfiguration. Otherwise, they've single-handedly borked thousands of reference links in the Pleiades gazetteer (and elsewhere).

paregorios,
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The HTTP response code being returned is 301 Moved Permanently.

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I'm still hoping it's an outage or misconfiguration.

paregorios,
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And, the redirection occurs even if you are coming from within a subscribing IP range. The site acknowledges your connecting from a subscribed institution, but still performs the redirect on the specific URIs.

paregorios,
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I have sent the following message via the contact form on brill.com:

For many years your digital resources have been linkable at the article or entry level, using discrete URIs for each. For example: https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/brill-s-new-pauly/pallantium-e904680 .

This morning, all those URIs are redirecting to the Brill home page, using the 301 Moved Permanently HTTP response header.

Is this a temporary outage or misconfiguration? I dearly hope so, otherwise, you've broken hundreds of thousands (or more) links from digital reference works, syllabuses, and other scholarly content across the web, including many thousands in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org), for which I am the managing editor.

I would be grateful for a timely response and explanation of this change. Thank you.

paregorios, to random
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Exciting news from the Ancient World Mapping Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:

"AWMC Interactive is now online and available for beta testing"

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/5df8ee208838401094b15f2ff50f3437/

"AWMC Interactive replaces Antiquity À-la-carte, which went offline in December 2023. It allows users to view geospatial data from the Mapping Center, the , and other partners without the need for specialized software or training."

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paregorios, to accessibility
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Since Mastodon v. 4.2.0, preview images on links supposedly consume and use the og:image:alt property from Open Graph if present in the target HTML, but I do not see that working on either of the instances I have an account on.

Can anyone confirm this is working on their instance?

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Original mastodon ticket: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18555

Associated mastodon pull request: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/26184

paregorios,
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It looks like a couple of sites running mastodon 4.3.0 alpha may have alt text for link preview cards working in the wild. I haven't seen any 4.2.0 sites with it working, even though the PR is supposedly included in that release.

h/t @paxed

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Why have all the images in my timeline disappeared? I don't have hide sensitive media checked and I don't have gradient color checked. Just started today....🤔

paregorios,
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@fulanigirl FWIW I have the impression that this can happen when an instance is overloaded (e.g., when there are big federation backlogs full of images or there's maintenance/upgrade going on). It hope yours sorts itself out soon.

paregorios, to AncientHistory
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Herewith again my periodic plea that image-forward, frequent posting accounts using hashtags like and include descriptive alt text with the images you post.

It was common and normal in the fediverse before the big influxes of people came over from the Musksite, where leaving blind and vision-impaired users out was standard from the start.

It's not hard. And if you're calling yourself doing "outreach" and "education", well ...

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-make-posts-more-accessible-to-blind-people-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/

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