Happy to have contributed a small part to this news piece. #papyri #Herculaneum #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

On my way back to Naples. Five days on Herculaneum and its papyri. New finds to be announced. Programme and link below. #Herculaneumpapyri #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky cispe.org/la-biblioteca-eterna-convegno-internazionale-napoli-22-26-giugno-2026/

Next week I am speaking at ‘The Eternal Library. The Herculaneum Papyri Through the Centuries and in the Digital Future’ conference in Naples. More importantly there will be a press conference announcing further results of Virtual Unwrapping. Programme + streaming links below. 1/2 #ClassicsBluesky

Heading to Salt Lake City to speak at ‘The Buried Library: Herculaneum Papyri and AI’ conference. Programme in the QR code below. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

A pleasure and an honour to give a paper on the Hesiodic Catalogue at the University of Bologna @unibo.it where i was an Erasmus exchange student many years ago and where I was first trained to handle papyri. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Visiting the Istituto Papirologico "G.Vitelli" in Florence for the first time. Several Hesiodic papyri to examine and some dubia. Topics include the funeral games of Oedipus, the story of Peleus, and the daughters of Leucon take care of the infant Dionysus. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Durante gli scavi legati alla riqualificazione di piazza Andrea Costa, è stata identificata con la basilica romana descritta da Vitruvio, con pianta rettangolare e colonnato perimetrale. #archeologia #Fano #Marche Leggi su ClassiCult: www.classicult.it/basilica-des...

Further progress with P.Herc. 172 (Phld. On Vices 1 or 4?). A roll held in Oxford. 7 metres of the lower portions of columns of text 'unwrapped'. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky scrollprize.substack.com/p/70-of-pher...

A very enjoyable day and a half spent at the 'Other Pindars: a Conference on the Fragments' in Cambridge. A follow up to the one held in Naples a year ago. (Also it was not held at the Faculty but at Trinity College which is a plus!) #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Un nuovo e straordinario rinvenimento archeologico all’interno della città etrusca di Vulci è stato presentato oggi a Roma. Si tratta della testa in marmo greco di una fanciulla (Kore) rinvenuta nel sito laziale. #archeologia #Etruschi #Lazio Leggi su ClassiCult: www.classicult.it/vulci-citysc...

Very happy to celebrate the book launch for my dear friend and former co-editor, Rosa Andújar, last night at KCL. Her book, 'Playing the Chorus in Greek Tragedy', now sits pride of place next to the one we co-edited years ago. Congratulations Rosa! Link to Rosa's book: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

We are very excited to announce that Professor Shelley Hales, IGRCT board member has just published "Mirrors and Masks in the Roman Empire: Encounter, Performance, and Metamorphosis" with Bloomsbury. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/mirrors-a...

A week spent in a chilly Oxford with the papyri. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Very happy to see this documentary, for which I was one of consultants, will be broadcast tomorrow.

Back to Naples to speak at a conference on Herculaneum Papyri and Epicurean Theology with a visit to the MANN and a day at the Officina 1/2 #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

A recent trip to London and Oxford for even more papyri (with Tosca hosting in the latter) 1/2

Another week spent in the Papyrology rooms @bodartlib.bsky.social and other nearby places. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

A week in the P.Oxy. collection ahead. But said hullo to the On Vices roll beforehand.

Hey look! My new article on the #Parthenon Frieze has been published! (Also; it’s open access!) #ClassicsBluesky

Hortus Botanicus Leiden

On the first research trip from @clahbristol.bsky.social to @unileiden.bsky.social. I am examining P.Turner 1, a papyrus preserving over 100 lines of the Hesiodic Catalogue. I’ll also be giving a lecture and running a workshop on Herculaneum papyri. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Spent the last three days in the Officina to go over several papyri with the new infrareds and virtual models, and see how things are progressing with the next phase of imaging.

Cagliari archaeological museum: some Nuragic highlights. 1/6 #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Nora 1/3

Cagliari 1/2

Not exactly “Breaking News”, but as of this month, I am now a Marie-Curie Research Fellow @clahbristol.bsky.social.

Farewell Rome 1/4

RHS Bridgewater

Winter moments.

A day trip to Milan to examine two Hesiodic papyri. Very nice to be shown around the collection including seeing the Milan Posidippus. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

In the Officina for the last time this year: one more check of circumferences and stratigraphy.

Thank you @financialtimes.com for including some old favourites in this list of Venetian eateries and bars. Sharing link below. on.ft.com/41o2kXW

Galleria Borghese 1/5

Palazzo Venezia 1/3 #domenicalmuseo

A two day conference on Pindar fragments: good to revisit familiar territory but one not visited for a while with some old friends. #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Caravaggio’s portrait of Monsignor Matteo Barberini, the future Pope Urban VIII (reg. 1623-1644 is on public display for the first time at Palazzo Barberini in Rome. Portrait likely done ca.1599-1604.

Back to a rainy Naples today to examine the stratigraphy of this small scorza (the now visible main layer is unpublished). Also a pleasant surprise to be shown some of the unopened rolls being evaluated for imaging.

Nice to see the scaffolding coming down on Palazzo Farnese, and other Roman views

Livy (and Vergil?) gets the musical treatment.

Enthroned cat.

Next Wednesday at UCD Classics, I'll be speaking once again about Philodemus' On Piety. This time about the remains of an unpublished column on the nature of the gods (perhaps in Socrates and Plato?). There'll be some provisional new column numbers too! Registration details below.

Cats of Largo di Torre Argentina

Extreme measures needed. Upgraded from 15cm callipers to 30cm callipers.

Forum of Trajan

Back to the SNSP library at Castelnuovo to read Piaggio’s Memoirs. Written 1769-71, they provide information on the discovery and unravelling of the Herculaneum papyri. There is no full transcription or translation of the work.

Ovid would be proud.

Happy to kick off the seminar programme @clahbristol.bsky.social by talking about Philodemus as a compiler of myth and how to reconstruct a carbonised and fragmentary papyrus roll.

Chiesa della Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini: before and after.