medievalqabq.bsky.social
editor of @alusuralwusta.bsky.social
historian of Umayyad & early Abbasid rule in Armenia & Caucasian Albania
currently working on marriage and matriliny in the Khazar Khaganate
associate prof at Columbia University
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I keep a list of Byzantine (v. loosely defined!) image collections in the OA Resources section of my Byzantine Data website. byzantinedata.org/resources/
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Ha, not true but thanks
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perfect timing as I sit with Kovalevsky on a winter afternoon. liked the point abt it being a "failure" to only some, perhaps not so much to Samanids!
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I'll now go down a rabbit hole on mosque lamps, so thanks for that [I *love* his stuff on trucks]
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yeah, I was just thinking abt that again when looking at inscriptions on columns from Madinat al-Zahra-- they were too small, too high to really read, so it does make you wonder abt why the patron would want them... for themselves?
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oh! you're too kind, but I hope I didn't drag your net fun down for the weekend!! 😆
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wtf 2024. no.
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two of the three articles currently in proofs stage for 2025 are on Armenian topics-- you should consider submitting!!
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@alusuralwusta.bsky.social Editors Report: 2024 issue is launched in full. 618 pages including research articles that have come out during the year. journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/al...
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the exhibit also included pre-Islamic material that became part of Umayyad designs. this bust of a Roman woman is from the 1st c. CE and the Dionysian image is from a repurposed 3rd-c. CE sarcophagus. both were found at Madinat al-Zahra
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a striking marble arched window from 350AH/961-2CE, Madinat al-Zahra, w/ inscription for Hakam, son of the caliph. but I love the peacocks and deer on the 10th-c limestone-- apparently from a street ramp?
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this 10th-c. gold & glass diadem from Charilla Treasure kind of stole the show, but the 10th-c. silver perfume bottle from Cordoba is also cool w/ its aches along the neck