Ancient scribes had to practice their signature just like we do. We even have papyri illustrating a scribe named Petaus who over and over wrote the formula for a proper signature: Name + Title + “I have submitted.” ✍️ P. Petaus 121. Inv. No. 328 Cologne. 182-187 CE www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/ifa...

Fascinating and brutally sad.

Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Fragment of a Mould https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.2009

NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

Gravestone fragment showing a hound chasing a hare from Roman Bath (Aquae Sulis). Now part of the museum collections at The Roman Baths in Bath. 📸 My own. #ReliefWednesday #RomanBritain #Bath

The first 'Great Moon Hoax' article was published in The New York Sun #OnThisDay in AD 1835, claiming life had been discovered on the moon 🌑 We've obsessed over the moon for millennia as shown by likely lunar depictions, such as the Nebra sky disc 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2 📷 Dbachmann / CC BY-SA 3.0

The newest issue of Religion & Theology 32, no. 1&2 (2025), just out ...

Reposting to add that off the top of my head, other museums with public domain image collections include the Met, the Getty, Cleveland Museum of Art, Yale University Art Gallery, and the Princeton University Art Museum. There's also a longer list here: apollo-magazine.com/open-access-...

Roman Bookrolls and Tablets in Kansas City Missouri thetextualmechanic.blogspot.com/2025/07/roma...

For #ReliefWednesday a depiction of a hydraulis – a water organ with a keyboard and pipes, the supply of air was created by water pressure. The instrument on the terracotta relief found in Trier is flanked by gladiators, a retiarius and a secutor. Water organs were used in... 🧵1/2 🏺 #archaeology

A #Roman tile fragment with some dog pawprints, impressed into the clay while it dried before firing #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology

Noah and his family in the ark. The original Mystery Machine. From the cathedral of Monreale, #Sicily. 12th c. 📷🇮🇹 flic.kr/p/GjKP3G #photography #art #Italy

#SaturdayMorningMood: a #Greek skyphos (a two handled drinking cup), decorated with an adorable #owl. Dating second half of the 5th century BC. On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover. 📷 me 🏺

#RomanSiteSaturday: The Piazza Navona in #Rome was built on the remains of the Stadium of Domitian, therefore it has its unique shape. 📷 Valentino Ligori via IG #archaeology 🏺

This golden Roman hand mirror (missing its handle) depicts a naked goddess after her bath in a rustic, woodland setting. You'd expect Aphrodite-Venus, right? Instead, it might be a rare depiction of a naked Artemis-Diana, her quiver propped against the base of an altar. 🏺 1/ 2nd c. CE, #ARTIC 📸 me

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social academic.oup.com/book/60683

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

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)

k, friends, looks like this is up, and you can get a free PDF of it for the next few weeks! if you read it, i hope you find something useful to think with.

Is anyone troubled by the fact that this is standard *fresco* imagery that has been translated to *mosaic*? That is a common practice of forgers (familiar iconography, fancier medium). Non-mythological erotic scenes in mosaics are extremely rare (I know of only 1 other example & it is questionable).

The Burning of the Library of Alexandria but do it with bugs.

A #Roman draco military standard, found in Niederbieber (Germany) - the only surviving example of this type of standard (so far?) It would have had a flowing fabric tail, & probably made a hissing sound when carried at speed. 🏺AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #RomanFortThursday

Quite the title and subtitle!

Several months ago, @ancientjewreview.bsky.social published a review I did of a book by Robyn Faith Walsh (@zafulotus.bsky.social) which I've linked below. I continually find myself coming back to this book when thinking about the authorship of the Gospels. www.ancientjewreview.com/read/the-ori...

I just had a new piece published on the surprising number of Roman portraits that are uncritically treated as ancient objects but were likely manipulated in modernity. Please check it out! brill.com/view/journal...

i am BEGGING you before you pop off about paywalls to go to your local library's website and scroll through their digital resources. mine gives me access to NYT, WSJ, WaPo and if its linked with PressReader or a similar app, all the news magazines, sports, fashion, hobby etc. FOR FREE.

The iPad of late antiquity (this one is even similar in size!): a complete wax tablet found in Byzantine Egypt still wit notes in Coptic on it. Low content permanence but high portability with an infinite undo function! Met Museum 14.2.4a–d, c. 500-700

Cleopatra’s children: The last of the Ptolemies – The Past 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky #BlueskyClassics #AncientBluesky 🏛️

Position (tenured) in ancient/late antique Jewish history, religion, and culture at Harvard (deadline 9/1) academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14958

#ReliefWednesday - Relief showing a cloth merchant's shop: ca. Mid-1st Century AD. Originally part of a funerary monument, the scene shows the merchandise being presented to two toga-clad clients. #Archaeology #Art 🏺 Image: Uffizi Gallery, Florence (inv. 1914, 315). 📸 My Own

Roman-era 'fast food' discovered in ancient trash heap on Mallorca | Live Science www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

Happy 🦇 #medievalsky @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Ashmole 304, f. 47v

ah, i was waiting for these; they're finally here. this mini-monograph needs a final proofs check, but it's coming soon - like in a few weeks soon. and it'll be free to download for about two weeks once it's released.

SBL Handbook of Style, 2nd Edition

Last year I ended my project about Roman stylus tablets, which was funded by the @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de, early – for my dream job. But before I did, we filmed a series of short videos about the project, and the first episode is now live. (English Version available) ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #ancientbluesky🏺 1/3

Fair analysis.

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We all need a timeline cleanse! Terracotta figurine of a #dog feeding her puppies. 500 BC-450 BC, Boeotia/Greece. Terracotta figurines from this region during this period typically depict everyday scenes Life without #dogs is possible but pointless 🐶🐕 On display at Antikensammlung München 📷 me 🏺

If you need me, I’ll be taking a course on Beethoven! 🤓 pll.harvard.edu/subject/huma...

Please circulate, Classics friends and colleagues! I am on the grad student mentoring committee and we are eager to have more grad reviewers.

A truly beautiful detail from an Etruscan bronze mirror, depicting a winged Lasa, a protective deity (much like later Roman Lares) associated with Tuan, the Etruscan goddess of love. Perhaps a wedding present for a young bride, and later placed in her tomb. 🏺 #ancientbluesky 3rd c. BCE. #ARTIC 📸 me

10 PAID PhD POSITIONS! The “International Doctoral Program Philology” at the University of Munich just announced ten paid PhD positions on topics related to premodern philology.

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.