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Eye inlays from an Egyptian coffin. The frame is made of bronze, the eye of calcite and obsidian. Dating ca. 1500-1200 BC. On display at Staatliches Museum für Ägyptische Kunst, München. 📷 me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

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I had an amazing visit up to Tufts today to lecture in @zulitz.bsky.social's class! 🤓 I'll run into you one of these days, @chancebonar.bsky.social 🫣😆

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Extended Call For Papers: Religion, Popular Culture, and the Nineties

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Big news, Pliny fans 🗺️ ! The AWMC launched The Geography of Pliny the Elder which “compiles & maps the geog. data in Pliny's Natural History.” The open database “includes some 6,500 unique entries, & this application maps all those entries that are locatable.” pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/ne... #HGIS

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Here's an angry looking porcupine BnF MS Latin 1156B; Horae ad usum romanum; 15th century; f.176r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

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I find it so fascinating that these two mummies, along with their fantastic encaustic portraits, were found in the same tomb. The orientation of the soldier's studded sword belt indicates that he’s of low rank, but the woman is clothed in silks and wears expensive jewelry. 🏺 1/ c. 100-200 CE. 📸 me

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We are searching for a Scholar-in-Residence in Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations for the 2025-2026 academic year at Providence College www.schooljobs.com/careers/prov...

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40 BOOKS IN ROMAN HISTORY WRITTEN BY WOMEN A killer reading list of great books (and personal favorites!) in Roman History to celebrate #InternationalWomen'sDay 2025. Limited to English (to keep it manageable!) and listed in order of publication. Let's go!

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An astoundingly well-preserved 3,400 year-old ancient Egyptian wig made from human hair! Worn by a lady called Merit, it was placed in her tomb for use in the afterlife. I saw this remarkable artefact last week at the Museo Egizio in Turin. 📷 by me #Archaeology

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This #FrescoFriday we travel to the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii to soak up the glorious detail of some of the panels that make up the Garden Room. The registers reveal a feast for the eyes with birds, theatrical masks, and lush foliage all competing for our attention. #AncientBluesky🏺

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The smallest (and most delicate) of discoveries from our ongoing dig at Winterborne Kingston #Dorset is this 40mm long Iron Age sewing needle Carved from animal bone just over 2,000 years ago 😍 📷 June 2016 #FindsFriday

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Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus 🐙😍 Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro on the eastern coast of the island of Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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Watched #YatchRockHBO on a plane yesterday and the algorithm knows it.

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Last night with the Mars Castor Pollux Triangle. 5 March 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

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📰 Ancient Greek and Roman statues weren't just painted, they were also perfumed! #ArchaeologyNews via @labrujulaverde.bsky.social

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A #Roman tombstone dedicated to Vivius Marcianus, a centurion in the Legio II Augusta, by his wife Januaria Martina. It gives no biographical information, but he is depicted as a full-length figure, holding a centurion's vine-staff in his right hand, & maybe a scroll in the left 🏺AncientBlueSky

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#ReliefWednesday - The Gherardesca Diptych One leaf of an ivory diptych, ca. Early 5th Century, showing a pagan apotheosis. The monogram at the top suggests a connection with Quintus Aurelius Symmachus. #AncientBluesky 🏺 Image: British Museum (1857,1013.1). Link - britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

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From 1968–1971, HMML microfilmed 13,234 manuscripts in the collection of the Austrian National Library. Cataloging is now complete for 1,042 Greek manuscripts that were microfilmed. Of these, the oldest dated manuscript was copied by Iōannēs Grammatikos in 925. More info: hmml.org/collections/...

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In 1626, a Cambridge fishwife sliced open a cod, only to find a gelatinous, half-dissolved manuscript inside. It was published the next year under the name "Vox Piscis or, the Bookfish." At this point, why not get your news from inside a dead fish? #earlymodern #bookfish archive.org/details/bim_...

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#MosaicMonday - The brilliantly idiosyncratic Rudston Venus Mosaic: ca. Late 3rd Century AD, from a villa in East Yorkshire. She holds the Golden Apple, with an attendant Triton recalling her sea-birth. #Archaeology 🏺 Image: Hull & East Riding Museum. Link - museumshull.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-...

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Due April 1: The Dept of History at the University of Washington is hiring a 9 month distinguished lecturer in ancient or medieval history. 4 classes over 3 quarters, salary $100–115k, plus benefits. Review begins April 1st, feel free to email me with any questions apply.interfolio.com/161510

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6thC CE Ostracon from Deir el-Gizaz has a Coptic monk practicing the alphabet to write in ‘Bible Majuscule’ script. (P. L. Bat. 25.11, Image via the Papyrological Institute at Leiden University: www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...) I love this script! It was used on the Codex Vaticanus & Sinaiticus. 📖

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Poina/Poine, the goddess of vengeance (or a Fury named Vengeance), from an Apulian Red Figure krater of ca. 350-340 BCE 🏺

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For #SarcophagusSaturday, the sarcophagus of Marcus Claudianus, a "vir perfectissimus" with ties to the Roman emperor, and a Christian. He died in the latter part of Constantine's reign. 📷🇮🇹 flic.kr/p/2iFJYcx #photography #archaeology #EarlyChristianity #AncientBlueSky 🏺

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Roman concrete's 2,000-year durability secret finally decoded The exceptional strength comes from 'hot mixing' quicklime directly with volcanic ash at high temperatures. This creates distinctive lime clasts that grant remarkable self-healing properties. buff.ly/3EQOcxi #ShareGoodNewsToo

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#FrescoFriday - Painted ceiling tile from Dura Europos, ca. Early 3rd Century AD. A portrait of a bearded man named Heliodoros, an 'actuarius' responsible for Roman military accounts. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 Image: Yale University Art Gallery (1933.292). Link - artgallery.yale.edu/collections/...

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Big eel news! Recently uncovered frescoes at Pompeii contain eels. Because of course they do. Eels are everywhere in European history. You just have to look. This is a pair of lovely morays. To paraphrase Garth Brooks, sometimes folks wonder what happens if two morays never come. But here they are.

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3/5 @simchagross.bsky.social master class on magic bowls! An overview of the bowl corpus + key avenues for future research, incl so-called pseudo-script bowls, issues of literacy & materiality, the performative dimensions ancientstudies.harvard.edu/events?trumb...

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Wow! I sense the launching of a thousand dissertations. (Scroll to the end for lots of photos.) pompeiisites.org/en/comunicat...

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'All the better to see you with, my dear!' 🐺 Originally part of an over-lifesize statue, these eyes demonstrate the lengths ancient artists went to impart realism to sculpture. Made of marble, frit, quartz, obsidian, and bronze (lashes). 🏺 #ancientbluesky Greek, 5th c. BCE. #MetMuseum 📸 me

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I recently gave a keynote for NAASR on art history and aesthetics and the ancient world: check it out! And thanks to @naasr.bsky.social for inviting me to share my work! 🤓 youtu.be/g_fAEXlt1Xk?...

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📣 Job alert! The Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at UBC is seeking applications for a renewable three-year Lecturer position in Latin Language and Ancient Mediterranean Studies. Deadline: March 25th Full details: www.cac-scec.ca/2025/02/amne...

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Gorgeous #Roman glass cups decorated with colourful enamel-painted animals from the Roman arena, AD 200s. Found in richly-furnished ‘princely’ graves in Denmark, where they are known as ‘circus beakers’. National Museum of Denmark. 📷 by me #FindsFriday #Archaeology

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#SarcophagusSaturday in #Rome offers a lot of picturesque #reuse of #sarcophagus boxes as #spolia, usually a #fountain or drinking trough for animals. This one, from #palazzoTaverna, tells us about the original occupant's economic status, and about the two-way passage to #Hades. #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

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Roman associations—often called collegia—had lots of rules, like any club or group. In 153 CE, the collegium of Asclepius & Hygeia notes in their rules (a lex collegii) they had 7 feasts (CIL VI 10234). February 22 was the Cara Cognatio (“Dear Kinfolk”) & wine and bread was handed out to members.

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A phenomenol joke.

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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I recently did some research at the @jfklibraryfdn.bsky.social. Everyone there-- from the librarians to the security guards-- couldn't have been nicer, more accommodating, or knowledgeable. It was not overrun w/ staff; just a great bunch of people dutifully safeguarding papers and artifacts. (1/2)

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#ReliefWednesday - The 'Medea Sarcophagus' - a fabulous relief representation of the narrative of Euripides' 'Medea', culminating in her escape in a dragon-drawn chariot: ca. 2nd Century AD. #AncientBluesky 🏺 Image: Antikenmuseum Basel (BS 203). Link - antikenmuseumbasel.zetcom.net/de/collectio...

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Co-sign!!!!!

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