Museum trainee | PhD candidate in Egyptology | Working on the meaning and metaphors of fire in ancient Egyptian texts 🔥 📜 | she /her 🏳️‍🌈https://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.social/post/3lg4ibpknsk2pThis ostracon shows the hieroglyphs for ‘life’, ‘stability’ and ‘power’. Look at the grid system that the artist used to draw the signs at the correct proportion. 🤩 (c) MET Museum (23.3.4), Public domain #ancientbluesky #ancientegypt19 Jan 2025 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:pgmi5cblukpfld4fiozbvxd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg4ibpknsk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.social/post/3lfkvultsrs2nLove this writing board from ancient Egypt which shows how an apprentice scribe was practising writing hieroglyphs. (c) MET museum (28.9.5), Public domain #ancientegypt #ancientbluesky12 Jan 2025 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:pgmi5cblukpfld4fiozbvxd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfkvultsrs2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.social/post/3le5t5rat2k2hWishing all who celebrate a wonderful Christmas 🎄✨ Hope you’re having an amazing day 🤗 https://media.tenor.com/hg0hOv98yKkAAAAC/merry-christmas-funny.gif?hh=498&ww=46225 Dec 2024 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:pgmi5cblukpfld4fiozbvxd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3le5t5rat2k2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.social/post/3ldgzdzqo7c24What is hieratic? 📜 Hieratic is a cursive script based on ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs. It’s written with ink & a reed brush on papyrus, leather, or other surfaces. This handwritten script was used as a faster way of writing. 📷 MET Museum, Public domain #ancientbluesky #manuscriptmonday16 Dec 2024 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:pgmi5cblukpfld4fiozbvxd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldgzdzqo7c24https://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.social/post/3ldbok3ydi22jHad a wonderful time at the BAJA conference! 🥰 So many great and inspiring talks by early-career scholars. ✨ Also happy I could share my research on expressions of emotions in ancient Egyptian letters. 📜 #phdlife #phdsky14 Dec 2024 16:06 +0000at://did:plc:pgmi5cblukpfld4fiozbvxd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldbok3ydi22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.social/post/3lckhsfkh5s2kFrom today to 4 may 2025, come visit our showcase exhibition ‘Utterly Indispensable The Donkey in the Ancient World’ at Neues Museum (Berlin). ✨ Explore the donkey’s significance in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. 🫏 🔎 📜 https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/utterly-indispensable/ #ancientbluesky #ancientegypt #archaeology05 Dec 2024 10:34 +0000at://did:plc:pgmi5cblukpfld4fiozbvxd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lckhsfkh5s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.social/post/3lcdpuvdals2uIn which direction are hieroglyphs written in? 📜 🔎 - Horizontal line: left to right or right to left - Vertical column: left to right or right to left (always top to bottom) How do you know where to start? 👇🏻 (1/2)02 Dec 2024 18:10 +0000at://did:plc:pgmi5cblukpfld4fiozbvxd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcdpuvdals2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.social/post/3lbxjitjsb22gWhat are hieroglyphs? Hieroglyphs, meaning ‘sacred carvings’, describe an ancient Egyptian script that originated around 3200 BCE. The signs were mostly carved in stone and used on temple & tomb walls, and on other objects such as sarcophagi, statues and stelae. #ancientbluesky #ancientegypt27 Nov 2024 21:44 +0000at://did:plc:pgmi5cblukpfld4fiozbvxd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbxjitjsb22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.social/post/3lbpv7y4sck2kI also had way too many versions of this and got confused 🫣😅 Now I always add the date to each filename #phdsky [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Nov 2024 20:52 +0000at://did:plc:pgmi5cblukpfld4fiozbvxd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbpv7y4sck2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.social/post/3lb3s47elts2oHi everyone 🦋 ✨ I‘m Jessy, a graduate museum trainee & a part time PhD candidate. My research explores the meaning and metaphors of fire in ancient Egyptian texts 🔥 📜 Interested in ancient Egyptian language, lexical semantics, emotion & museum studies, outreach & education #phdsky #ancientbluesky16 Nov 2024 21:03 +0000at://did:plc:pgmi5cblukpfld4fiozbvxd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb3s47elts2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.social/post/3krqymzy6ns2oAttempting to use my 4 1/2 hour train journey effectively by working on a thesis chapter 💻🎒🚅 #phdlife #AcademicChatter #PhD #phdchat #phdsky #academicsky #acwri05 May 2024 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:pgmi5cblukpfld4fiozbvxd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3krqymzy6ns2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jessyknebel.bsky.social/post/3kpkbhmbkh62jRecharging for a new week of work and phd writing ☀️🌳🏞️⛅️ #PhdSky #academicsky #phdlife #phdchat07 Apr 2024 13:42 +0000at://did:plc:pgmi5cblukpfld4fiozbvxd4/app.bsky.feed.post/3kpkbhmbkh62j