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-...

I am so so sorry

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

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#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

Can’t wait for this!!!!

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

I still remember the great SI cover! I met him once down in Pawtucket. Seemed like a quiet, decent guy.

So underappreciated

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)