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Okay @associated: There are too many things wrong with this picture for my brain to handle in either Latin or English.

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Bosch: not a believer in stairways to heaven (photo by me at the Stanford University Art Gallery). 🚪

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June 20, 162 CE: A stipulatio (Roman loan contract) is put on a waxen tablet near Roşia Montană's gold mine. A woman named Anduenna Batonis lends Iulius Alexander 140 denarii at 12% interest (NB: To compare, a miner working June-Nov. in the mines got 70 denarii+food) www.trismegistos.org/text/131717

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Really interesting report from the @britishcouncil.bsky.social - "Digital Cultural Heritage: Imagination, Innovation and Opportunity". Reflecting the situated experiences and innovative practices of practitioners in Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Iraq, bringing a new lens to considering digital past.

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Wanted to note that our edited volume _Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE-300 CE_ edited by @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, & @illdottore.bsky.social is now available for OUP pre-order & will be out September 2025 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Wanted to note that our edited volume _Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE-300 CE_ edited by @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, & @illdottore.bsky.social is now available for OUP pre-order & will be out September 2025 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Good afternoon to this glorious Roman hemp horseshoe from Dura Europos in Syria (excavated by Yale and brought to New Haven). www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100345...

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Good afternoon to this glorious Roman hemp horseshoe from Dura Europos in Syria (excavated by Yale and brought to New Haven). www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100345...

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Oh, man. Please watch the video and then reflect on this sentence: “(a video) shows the car slowly making its way down the steps. The fire department later removed the car from the steps with a crane.” Gift link 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/w...

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Today I learned the music video for "Cruel Summer" by Ace of Base was also filmed at the Museo della Civiltà Romana in 1998. As you guys know, I'm a connoisseur of museums featured in TV & movies, & I listened to this tape non-stop for perhaps 2 years in the late 90s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUt0...

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Romans first started using ligatures (ligare means to “to bind together”) in the mid-Republic on coins before adopting them for epigraphy. Space saving typography! A guide to the common ligatures (=conjoining letters to save space) in Latin inscriptions [Egbert 1896].

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Spouse: we are having asparagus Me in my head: no, we are having asparagī or asparagoi. I love that ἀσφάρᾰγος just means plant shoots and that’s why it’s called asparagus. lol etymology! Spouse: … ? Me in my head: Don’t say it. No one cares about your obsession with plurals. Me aloud: “cool!”

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When it comes to self-defence, skunks and spitting cobras have nothing on the medieval “bonnacon”. It was said to defecate with such explosive force that it could scald targets more than a football pitch away with its fire-like dung. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bonnacons

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Well, I was not aware one could be buried in an actual bed (with bedposts and a mattress?) in the early Middle Ages, but tbh I think this feels like my new preferred inhumation route because I really do want to take some comfy pillows + high threadcount sheets to the afterlife with me when I go. 🛌

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Just wanted to note that @trismegistostm.bsky.social has a searchable database of ancient magical and divinatory texts from the Mediterranean. www.trismegistos.org/magic/search... 🪄🔮 It is quite cool. #DH

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June 18, 37 CE: Gaius Novius Eunus contracts for a loan of 10,000 sesterces from Evenus Primianus, freedman of Tiberius, using Hesychus, his enslaved man, as loan mediator. The loan contract is written on a wax tablet (below) in Puteoli & put in the archive of the Sulpicii (TP Sulp.51) #χειρόγραφον

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On a lighter note: will never get over the nipples @ @ on the Dura Europos Heracles. That is all.

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"Est leo regalis omnium animalium et bestiarum" Bern, Burgerbibliothek, Cod. 318; Physiologus Bernensis; around 830 CE; Reims; f.7r (www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)

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Today, people—from students to federal workers, from immigrants to the LGBTQ+ community—find themselves forced to fight deportations, surveillance, and the drastic erosion of fundamental human rights. So, WIRED dedicated a whole issue on How To Win A Fight. Start ⬇️: www.wired.com/story/editor...

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NB: We are now at a 0.47 Gini co-efficient in the US. @walterscheidel.bsky.social and Friesen estim. the Roman Empire’s at 0.42–0.44. America is actually more unequal than Roman Empire, which had about 20%+ enslaved ppl. It was higher in the early Middle Ages but still. www.jstor.org/stable/40599...

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Thankful to Prof. Rhiannon Ash for reviewing _Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire_ for @historytoday.com. Definitely an engaged review & I am appreciative to everyone who has read the book and either bought it, listened to it on Audible, or checked it out from the library. 📚

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🏺 Interested in dissemination of digital bioarchaeological data? Read Solange Bohlong's Internet Archaeology article visit: buff.ly/wQ7jqff Or read her blog post written last year: buff.ly/KwzVKwo Content warning: This blog post contains images of human remains.

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On June 11, Pompeii’s historical reconstruction of the “perfume garden” 🪴 at the House of Hercules / perfumer reopened. “800 antique roses 🌹, 1,200 violets, 1,000 ruscus plants, as well as cherries, vines & cotton apples.” So let’s chat historical perfumes & gardens. www.facebook.com/share/1G9pgy...

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It’s officially sundress season, so that means this week’s astonishing artifact is the world’s oldest surviving woven dress! 🧪🏺

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Those papyrologists saw the value of the #NEH, right from the start: apps.neh.gov/publicquery/... Summer institute in #papyrology to be conducted at Yale University, 1966.

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I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

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