Sebastian Heath
@sebhth.bsky.social
Mediterranean & computational archaeologist. ISAW/NYU. Child of immigrants. Opinions/typos mine. Original work CC-By. https://gaerhf.org https://p-lod.org https://palp.art https://roman-amphitheaters.org https://isaw.nyu.edu/publications/isaw-papers
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Sebastian Heath
@sebhth.bsky.social
· Feb 19
Over here in these United States, I know no king.
Quick example of local processing of 2 million + triples related to Pompeii. As noted, needs more documentation!! But @epoehler.bsky.social and I intend this as sustainable infrastructure encouraging re-use of our data. #Pompeii #ReproducibleReserch #OA #AncientSky
A first version of "Local RDF" Jupyter Notebook now at github.com/p-lod/p-lod-... . It will load an export of all 2 million + P-LOD triples and has two example SPARQL queries. Needs more comments, documentation, etc. Does mean there's full access to our triples w/o putting load on our triplestore.
p-lod-cookbook/p-lod-local-rdf.ipynb at main · p-lod/p-lod-cookbook
Code that works with P-LOD data. Contribute to p-lod/p-lod-cookbook development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Quick example of local processing of 2 million + triples related to Pompeii. As noted, needs more documentation!! But @epoehler.bsky.social and I intend this as sustainable infrastructure encouraging re-use of our data. #Pompeii #ReproducibleReserch #OA #AncientSky
Dude sure seems to like foreign wars.
January 30, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Dude sure seems to like foreign wars.
Can we raise $50,000 to pay Homan to stop the violence and killing?
January 26, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Can we raise $50,000 to pay Homan to stop the violence and killing?
Alex Jeffrey Pretti
Renee Nicole Good
January 24, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Alex Jeffrey Pretti
American lives are as valuable as any other lives. Why is the US Government killing *any* of us? Stop now.
January 24, 2026 at 6:25 PM
American lives are as valuable as any other lives. Why is the US Government killing *any* of us? Stop now.
If of interest...
On April 1st, 2026 at 5PM (Eastern time), I'll lead an @isawnyu.bsky.social "Expanding the Ancient World Workshop" titled "Digital Approaches to Global Art History: The Example of the Human Figure" and on topic of using GAERHF in teaching. isaw.nyu.edu/events/etaw-... to register. #GlobalAntiquity
Expanding the Ancient World Workshop
This workshop will take place online. Registration is required; click through for the registration link. Zoom information will be provided via confirmation email to registered participants. Expanding ...
isaw.nyu.edu
January 23, 2026 at 10:17 PM
If of interest...
I am proudly and permanently partnered up with a wine mom. Do not mess with @sarahburnes.bsky.social!
January 12, 2026 at 3:09 AM
I am proudly and permanently partnered up with a wine mom. Do not mess with @sarahburnes.bsky.social!
Another opportunity to note that more people voted for someone other than Trump than voted for him. Under 50% in 2024. Never had a mandate. Now unpopular.
New York City turned OUT.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️
January 11, 2026 at 8:08 PM
Another opportunity to note that more people voted for someone other than Trump than voted for him. Under 50% in 2024. Never had a mandate. Now unpopular.
Hey, @nytimes.com, I should not have to scroll to get to this story. Bump it up.
January 7, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Hey, @nytimes.com, I should not have to scroll to get to this story. Bump it up.
My #AIASCS talk is "Roman Art within Afroeurasia" as part of the panel "Still Defining Roman Art" org'd by P. de Staebler and Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta. It's a series of five minute talks then discussion. Here are my very few slides in miniature form. Friday at 2PM. Come if you can. #AIASCS2026
January 7, 2026 at 1:14 AM
My #AIASCS talk is "Roman Art within Afroeurasia" as part of the panel "Still Defining Roman Art" org'd by P. de Staebler and Anne Hrychuk Kontokosta. It's a series of five minute talks then discussion. Here are my very few slides in miniature form. Friday at 2PM. Come if you can. #AIASCS2026
To the extent SCOTUS put their fingers in the wind and realized we don’t want our cities occupied on a whim by federalized troops, I’m glad they took account of popular opinion. Just another day in Chicago (or NYC, where I am) doesn’t an emergency make. Let us be. Immigrants and all.
December 23, 2025 at 9:10 PM
To the extent SCOTUS put their fingers in the wind and realized we don’t want our cities occupied on a whim by federalized troops, I’m glad they took account of popular opinion. Just another day in Chicago (or NYC, where I am) doesn’t an emergency make. Let us be. Immigrants and all.
The Schroda site in South Africa produced many anthropomorphic figurines of C. 1000 CE. There's existing literature: njas.fi/njas/article... . But not great directly linkable images. I did start a Schroda wiki page as a stub: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schroda... . Am I missing another resource?
December 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The Schroda site in South Africa produced many anthropomorphic figurines of C. 1000 CE. There's existing literature: njas.fi/njas/article... . But not great directly linkable images. I did start a Schroda wiki page as a stub: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schroda... . Am I missing another resource?
He didn't get a majority of votes (49.8%), is pardoning drug kingpins, killing fishermen, making our lives more expensive (health care and tariffs), and is less-and-less popular by the day. We keep that all in mind.
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 AM
He didn't get a majority of votes (49.8%), is pardoning drug kingpins, killing fishermen, making our lives more expensive (health care and tariffs), and is less-and-less popular by the day. We keep that all in mind.
Great read. Thanks for posting the full text.
Publication day! I spent so long building a mahoosive dataset and GIS that it would be a waste not to share the results. The Greeks didn't build many amphitheatres, but gladiatorial epigraphy has been found on huge numbers. Where did eastern gladiators fight?
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Venues for Spectacle in the Greek East: Architectural Adaptation and Cultural Adoption
PDF | The scarcity of canonical amphitheatres in the culturally Greek eastern parts of the Roman empire has been used as evidence to suggest a... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...
www.researchgate.net
November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Great read. Thanks for posting the full text.
Reposted by Sebastian Heath
Publication day! I spent so long building a mahoosive dataset and GIS that it would be a waste not to share the results. The Greeks didn't build many amphitheatres, but gladiatorial epigraphy has been found on huge numbers. Where did eastern gladiators fight?
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Venues for Spectacle in the Greek East: Architectural Adaptation and Cultural Adoption
PDF | The scarcity of canonical amphitheatres in the culturally Greek eastern parts of the Roman empire has been used as evidence to suggest a... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Res...
www.researchgate.net
November 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Publication day! I spent so long building a mahoosive dataset and GIS that it would be a waste not to share the results. The Greeks didn't build many amphitheatres, but gladiatorial epigraphy has been found on huge numbers. Where did eastern gladiators fight?
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
In London. BM closed due to power outage. So at Sir John Soane’s Museum. A bricolage of casts and originals. And that’s just the antiquity. Fun museum.
November 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
In London. BM closed due to power outage. So at Sir John Soane’s Museum. A bricolage of casts and originals. And that’s just the antiquity. Fun museum.
The project I'll be talking about , gaerhf.org , is in its earliest stages. The talk is my first substantial public presentation on it. I'll welcome all feedback I get and you can expect that it will lead to improvements at all scales. I'm grateful to whomever can join in any mode. #GlobalAntiquity
November 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The project I'll be talking about , gaerhf.org , is in its earliest stages. The talk is my first substantial public presentation on it. I'll welcome all feedback I get and you can expect that it will lead to improvements at all scales. I'm grateful to whomever can join in any mode. #GlobalAntiquity
Reposted by Sebastian Heath
Join us online or in person for a talk from MAHSA’s Vaneshree Vidyarthi: ‘Mapping the Indian Palaeolithic’, part of the London Centre for the Ancient Near East’s Autumn seminar series.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcane-autu...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcane-autu...
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Join us online or in person for a talk from MAHSA’s Vaneshree Vidyarthi: ‘Mapping the Indian Palaeolithic’, part of the London Centre for the Ancient Near East’s Autumn seminar series.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcane-autu...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lcane-autu...
As I always say, If you can make it in Iowa City, you can make it anywhere. Including in New York: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Iowa City Made Its Buses Free. Traffic Cleared, and So Did the Air.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
As I always say, If you can make it in Iowa City, you can make it anywhere. Including in New York: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...
Accessible color palette coming online at GAERHF. Reactions from all welcome.
Working on color palette for GAERHF that's more likely to be discernible by more people. The light-ish purple circle on map is current figure whose details are shown. Brown marker borders show which figures have "ivory" as a keyword. Input at top-left to select that. gaerhf.org#ivory-female...
November 19, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Accessible color palette coming online at GAERHF. Reactions from all welcome.
“Agreed, approved, signed, and attached.” The more of that I can do today, the better. #AcademicChatter
November 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
“Agreed, approved, signed, and attached.” The more of that I can do today, the better. #AcademicChatter
That Summers dude ain’t so looking so smarty, smarty now.
November 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
That Summers dude ain’t so looking so smarty, smarty now.