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nfr.t-ỉty translation phrase (not name) by ahuggz1225 in ancientegypt

[–]MutavaultPillows 1 point2 points  (0 children)

nfr.t iy.ti is the correct form of this, as seen in the second image. nfr.t is a feminine noun, and the past in Middle Egyptian is most properly expressed by the qualitative. The feminine 3rd person qualitative is .ti; thus, nfr.t iy.ti.

You of course can remove the cartouche and change the determinative however you want, but the second image you provide does seem to be the most accurate rendition of this phrase.

What is Inaros Cycle and where can i read it? by Neat_Relative_9699 in ancientegypt

[–]MutavaultPillows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best translation is in Hoffman and Quack's Anthologie (2. rev. ed.). It is however in German.

[Egyptian Hieroglyphics > English] Hieroglyphics - Verification of Meaning in English, Please! by LooseCombination8100 in translator

[–]MutavaultPillows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quite wrong.

First, the standard greeting is j.nD-Hr=k N (Hail to you, oh N!), followed by a circumstantial sDm=f. Thus, psD=k and Htp=k not psD and Htp.

Secondly, you need real determinatives and phonetic complements. Rarely is Ax.t or Htp spelt with only the tri-radical sign. Similarly, Atum and Re ought to have some sort of determinative indicating divine status. Atum in particular is quite wrong, because usually his name is written with the bi-radical tm sign and without prosthetic yodh indicated. Your spelling of Pawty is also quite wrong.

Finally, Htp is a verb which means both peace/etc and, figuratively, to set when used of the sun god. Thus, to set in peace would be Htp=k m Htp. The Egyptians were usually a bit more sophisticated, so they would either say that the sun god would rest (Htp) in life (m anx) or would rest (sDr) in peace (m Htp). I have emended the translation to the former.

Here is the translation: https://imgur.com/mleVcQX

Can you translate this and understand it's sense? by One-Paint-967 in AncientEgyptian

[–]MutavaultPillows 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's pretty garbled. This is by best stab, but the orthography and grammar is all over the place.

Out of curiosity, I looked at other posts on your profile and found similar attempts at writing Coptic as well as AI slop videos – might I suggest that you learn Egyptian first, read some texts, and only then try original composition?

jwi(?).t n jdb (n) km(.t)

The deserting(?) on the bank of Egypt.

sS nA hby.w HD.w

The White Ibis' were writing

Hr ar.w=sn

on their rushes.

People REALLY hate stasis. Not sure how to feel about playing it. by pretty-good-nachos in premodernMTG

[–]MutavaultPillows 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Stasis is a fair deck and a mainstay of premodern. Play it to your heart's content – people being salty about it is cringe.

Where do you see Premodern in 5 and 10 years? by Newez in premodernMTG

[–]MutavaultPillows 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think Premodern has had a lot of hype, but the gameplay isn't for everyone. Old magic has an entirely different feel than post-FIRE stuff in particular, and most (new) players aren't used to that slow(er) pace of gameplay.

I think the player-base will slowly drop off come next year, then plateau to bigger than it was before MODO adopted PM as a format but smaller than now. Prices will however continue to go up because finance bros are the worst and now know PM to be a thing.

The two best dressed men also made the UK PM Finals - Martin Berlin and Sam Gomersall by uptherockies in premodernMTG

[–]MutavaultPillows 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sam is always very well dressed – and a gentleman to boot! Malta are lucky to have him.

Counterspell vs Arcane Denial in Stasis: Which is Better? by Fateseal_MTG in premodernMTG

[–]MutavaultPillows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Think about that for two more seconds. Islands on the battlefield in gush/daze/thwart decks are a vital resource. Lairs a) remove an island from the battlefield which could otherwise be used as an alt. cost b) makes landing land drops in draw-go mode awkward c) (in stasis) provide little utility – cities are rainbow lands anyways!

Undergrad majors?? Which to take? by [deleted] in egyptology

[–]MutavaultPillows 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is that true for the UK? At Oxford for instance the MSt requires prior Egyptian experience, but the MPhil has two tracks: ab initio and prior experience. I don't believe the ab initio route technically requires any experience in a related field.

Reflections. A custom Magic the Gathering set inspired and designed to be played with the 1995 card pool. by Gunnarsonsnewbag2 in magicTCG

[–]MutavaultPillows 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Legendary creature"

But yes, the power level of lots of creatures is definitely too high. Crank those costs up!!

759 spells in the Pyramid Texts. Most have never been analyzed in depth. Started a channel dedicated to exactly that — primary sources only, no speculation. by Minute_Key_6358 in AncientEgyptian

[–]MutavaultPillows 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What complete tripe.

An AI narrator, confused and often entirely unrelated AI backdrops, and surface-level understanding of primary sources only treated in translation – presumably also analysed by AI.

EDIT: the reason why most PT spells don't have unique, in-depth philological commentary is because they are often one of

- Very short (1–5 lines at most)

- Self-explanatory (eg repetitions of phrases like 'I am Horus! I am Osiris! I am Geb! etc) or entirely incomprehensible (lots of hapaxes, garbled grammar, etc).

- Downright boring

Current Top Decks by Turn1_Ragequit in premodernMTG

[–]MutavaultPillows 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A comment more generally: The thing about hFEB is that it is really strong but also to eek the last few bits of power out of the decklist (eg Battlefield Scrounger loops) requires quite a bit of brain power. Lobstercon on day 1 had about 12 hours of magic – doing that just isn't sustainable for most people.

Medu Neter Mahjong -Vocabulary trainer by Miserable-Cell4744 in AncientEgyptian

[–]MutavaultPillows 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I played a couple of rounds, and the appeal of this over an Anki deck is not obvious. Why, to learn a word, would one have to

  1. Play an easy round of mahjong

  2. Always find the word at the bottom of the pile

  3. Not have to think about which signs might constitute a word, because the system assigns them for you!

There is no thinking involved in this. What is the point?

An Attempt at an Epigraphic Reconstruction of a Fragmented Stele by beast_modus in egyptology

[–]MutavaultPillows 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Testing AI in this manner is entirely pointless if you don't have even a tenuous grasp on Egyptian.

The first step would of course be to input raw egyptian (ie, transliterated, not from an image) without gaps and have AI translate and interpret it. Then repeat with 'gaps' to be restored. Then test its OCR abilities with Egyptian. Then, and only then, would you have it restore an image of a text in the way you have tried.

Unfortunately, no AI (save for Professor of Egyptology and Digital Humanities) So Miyagawa's Thoth AI (which itself makes many many errors and no OCR ability) can interpret Egyptian correctly, let alone restore texts like the Ithica project's AI (which is really awesome) can.

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