古代言語の研究室 - Ancient Languages Lab
A small room surrounded by stone walls hangs on the walls, replicas of reliefs inscribed with ancient characters. A thick wooden table stands in the center of the room, its surface darkened with wear. Several open dictionaries are stacked on top of each other on the table, revealing Greek, Latin, and Hebrew dictionaries. The pages are thin, translucent paper, and the letters are printed small and densely. A bookmark tucked between the dictionaries is an old postcard with a monochrome photo of an archaeological site printed on it. A magnifying glass hangs from a chain, and the letters beneath the lens appear greatly distorted. At the edge of the table sits a replica of a clay tablet engraved with cuneiform characters. The clay is reddish-brown in color and has a rough surface, casting shadows in the grooves of the letters. An open notebook contains a transcription of the ancient characters and translation notes written in pencil. The pencil is short and worn, leaving eraser marks on the paper. A bookshelf in the background is filled with specialist books on linguistics and archaeology, their spines faded. A small plaster cast, a bust of a Greek sculpture, sits on a bookshelf, gathering dust. An old lampshade hangs from the ceiling, casting a warm light that casts a shadow on the wall. The colour palette is stone grey, terracotta, dark brown, off-white and amber light. The composition is a bird's-eye view from a slightly elevated position, revealing the entire table and its surroundings. The dedicated research of a classical scholar, the intellectual excitement of deciphering a lost language, the thirst for knowledge that transcends time.
