The only surviving original Carolingian "littera formata", like a passport for a priest. Issued in Lucca, now in Pavia. archiviodigitale-icar.cultura.gov.it/it/185/ricer...

spent the afternoon exploring hollywood forever cemetery in LA: a lot of people have seen photos of the celeb graves etc, but the variety and scale and extravagance of monuments was extraordinary, as was the picture on immigrant communities in LA

Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum now open access csel.at/en/publikati...

I had a very interesting interview with a couple of very smart people who run the Sképsislamica podcast. I talked about a wide range of things, from the late Sasanian world to the 10th century Samanids and blabbered on for 2.30 hours and they left it as it was! I am sorry! youtu.be/xTuk8u7TTu4?...

i'm up at Brown Univ for this today: fun line up on water in late antiquity. And more snow than i've seen in years.

Wild that Indiana is going to finally win a national football championship in the year that IU’s leaders & the state’s government decided it was no longer a serious research university.

*name that palace*? this evening i'm working on trace of a plan from part of famous early medieval palace -- early twentieth century, quite famous excavator and draftsman.. any guesses? (Lord help me w/ the shading and details for tiles and hypocaust.. still figuring out quite how to manage it..)

This is all coming along.. missed the Jaharis post a few months ago. Giving talks here and there on the topic as we all keep writing and writing and writing... If interested for your dept drop me a line

A trade for Ukraine and Taiwan

going to see Torlonia collection tmrw

El pastor es mi señor

Heinrich Kiepert's *Formae Orbis Antiqui*: 25 maps of 36 planned were published, 1903-1908ish.. All available for high resolution download from UChicago isac-idb.uchicago.edu/results.php?... someday i'm going to wallpaper my bathroom with these.

❄️so cold 🥶https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RTFi-y9WgM

🎶 all i want for Christmas, is yoooouuuu, baby 🎶 www.abebooks.com/first-editio...

Interesting project on graffiti at Hagia Sophia in IST www.hagiasofiagraffiti.com/schemesconte...

you betta work www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIOY...

Be encouraged www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZia...

That time of year again: send UGA your students looking for an MA in Latin and Classics! The home of Wheelocks' Latin textbook, and according to MLA the biggest Latin program in USA, we are a bastion of rigorous Latin pedagogy. Fully-funded assistantships available. Email me with questions, please!

i do not have the energy for self promotion anymore -- thanks, tenure -- but LinkedIn seems to be where the strivers are congregating these days

Have been slightly obsessed with this for a while now youtu.be/PJ9PMydTVYE?...

Learned yesterday that a recent MA grad from our department had manuscript for new edition of a fairly important and substantial Late Antique Latin text accepted by Brepols. Wow. 😮

Time for another adventure...

Time for another adventure...

A lot of the justifications point to the number of Religious Studies majors—but is this really how a dept’s value should be judged? In many RS departments in which I’ve taught, our courses have enormous enrollments & student interest +

Fun fact—the formal pub date is 7/31, but apparently CUP is now live with my book, if you’re logging in thru an institution: accordingly, book 🧵 incoming. (1/) www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

i need a cloud cluster / super-computer for photogrammetry.. sh*t's getting too big even for my gamer laptop at 300+ gb

Re: plague studies youtu.be/y-qjnzqnqKM?...

Sardis and Bin Tepe have been officially inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List: news from today trt.global/world/articl... whc.unesco.org/en/list/1731

NSF FY 2026 Budget Request: eye-popping summary tables on pages 6 and 12 include 70% cut in budget and personnel involved (researchers, grad students, etc) nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

Massive cuts and mergers at my alma mater, Indiana University in Bloomington -- 408 degree programs across the state Full list: www.in.gov/che/files/In... Indy Star write up from 30 June: www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

find the kitty cat

Pas de documents, pas d'histoire.

Would appreciate guidebook / bib suggestions for gansu and xinjiang provinces in western china.. found out the other day i'll be going to Dunhuang in september, which is pretty wild.

monsterpiece theater full of gems - www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvvI...

Not bad for an office.. also comes with a well-mannered anatolian sheep dog

Full moon the other night from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis

Used ChatGPT today to help write batch scripts for Cloud Compare (correcting inverted normals error in laser scan data taken from 150 scan positions, model is 300gb), Agisoft Metashape (changing file path structures), and OxCal for phased radiocarbon calibration. I learned stuff. Am i a bad person?