The trenches are all but closed and the students have headed home. Just some post ex work to be done.

I’ve been reading through Latin curse tablets (defixiones) and thought this one from Roman-period Britain was neat: someone seemingly cursing the person who stole their beehive ‘vas apium’)! 🐝 (Brit. 48.10 10; text and images: romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions...; images by R.S.O. Tomlin)

And of course our excellent staff who kept everything going and helped our students learn about all the various facets of archaeology.

It was the last day in the trenches for our 2025 season. Our students from @boisestate.bsky.social and @utah.edu were amazing!!

Our team gave a small conference covering our first 2 years of excavation last night in Serravalle Scrivia. A nice little piece on it in today’s La Stampa.

@dr-fishbones.bsky.social walks our students through an assemblage of young pig bones from last year’s excavations.

Check out @jevanwinn.bsky.social’s Instagram stories take over for #UofULanguages @uofuhumanities.bsky.social where he’s sharing his experiences on LULP this today and tomorrow. www.instagram.com/stories/uofu...

Lovely! Libarna also has a Romano-Gallic temple in its forum opposite a more traditional Roman style temple.

Students washed some bone this morning while we opened trenches. Everyone was on site in the afternoon to clean trenches and put up safety fences. #LULP #Libarna #archaeology #RomanArchaeology @boisestate.bsky.social @uofuhumanities.bsky.social

Yesterday our students got an overview of excavations at #Libarna from our Director Katie Huntley, and our trench supervisors Alexis Mosley and Richard Chadwick before laying out this year’s trenches.

Talking trenches! Picking the placement for this year's trenches using data from our last two dig seasons to help us fill in more of the story of ancient #Libarna #archaeology #fieldschool #romanarchaeology

Our students arrive today!! And excellent group from @boisestate.bsky.social and @uofuhumanities.bsky.social

For #MosaicMonday - Lycurgus and Ambrosia from Silvana Finocchi’s excavations of the houses near Libarna’s amphitheater. 📸: Silvana Finocchi (a cura di), 1996, Libarna, Maxmi Editore, Castelnuovo Scrivia.

One week from today! Staff team will be arriving in Arquata Scrivia to set up for our third excavation season!!!

Some small updates to the LULP website libarnaarchproject.wordpress.com and more in the works. Our season starts June 21st and we’ve got a great team, including students from @Boisestate.bsky.social & @utah.edu

In honor of #InternationalArchaeologyDay here’s our 2024 team of amazing archaeologists.

And just like that our trenches are closed. A few more days of post-ex work and our second season will end. #archaeology

Our amazing 2024 crew!! Students from @boisestateuniversity & @uofutah have done a brilliant job this season with their amazing trench supervisors Richard Chadwick and Alexis Mosley.

Our Associate Director Alexis Christensen really loves tile! And this is a good year for tile!! #LULP #Archaeology #UofU #BoiseState

Since it’s #AncientSiteSunday here’s a nice view of Libarna, a Roman colony established ca. 148 BCE when the Via Postumia was built to connect Genoa to Aquileia across the Po Valley. Read more: the-past.com/feature/liba... 📸 M Boyles

Field trip to the antiquities collection in the Musei Reali in Torino today. Our pottery expert Melania Semeraro gave our @boisestate.bsky.social and U of Utah student an excellent tour.

Another good day in the trenches. Our @UUtah and @BoiseState students finished cleaning trenches and learned how to draw a trench plan. #Archaeology #LULP 🏺

We have blue skies and flowers at Libarna!! An excellent first day in the trenches.

Finally made it into the field to bail the trenches and lay out the grids.

A #LibarnaFact: Pliny the Elder mentions Libarna (3.49). “ab altero eius latere ad Padum amnem Italiae ditissimum omnia nobilibus oppidis nitent, Libarna, Dertona colonia,…” …toward the River Po, the richest of Italy, all the region abounds in well-known towns: Libarna, the colony of Dertona,…

Starting our second rainy morning with a talk by our Director, Prof. Huntley, on Libarna and it’s place in ancient Italy/Liguria. #LULP #archaeology

When it’s chilly and the rain is filling up your trenches you make a run to the local designer outlet mall to get some sweatshirts and rain gear. #ArchaeologyLife #LULP #SerravalleScrivia #McAurthurGlenOutlet #BiggestDesignerOutletMallInEurope

Field trip to Libarna Archaeological Park on a rainy Sunday.

The shoes have multiplied. Our students are here!!

It’s starting!!!🎉

We're on Bluesky!! Our staff is here, our trenches are laid out, and our students will be here on Saturday!!!