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Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social · 6d

This is coming up soon! Free lecture and reception, on Friday 10th October. There are still places left - please come along and/or pass onto your networks

Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social · Sep 5

Free lecture by Prof Jaś Elsner at Senate House on 10th October. Book on the link below.

The 28th Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture

Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art | British Museum share.google/glf556KROUQV...

Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art

Join one of Britain's leading art historians, Jaś Elsner, for a look at the religious context of some of the great monuments of antiquity.

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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · 7d

Come work with us!🏺
Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇

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Project Curator: Hidden Stories of Childhood Greece and Rome; Egypt and Sudan Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break) Fixed term for 12 months £36,396 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 17 October 2025

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Dr Vicky Donnellan @vickydonnellan.bsky.social · 18d

If you'd like to find out about the Classical Collections Network here is our website. It's free to join and open to anyone who cares for/about classical collections in UK museums

classicalcollectionsnetwork.co.uk

Classical Collections Network

A Subject Specialist Network

classicalcollectionsnetwork.co.uk

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · Sep 6

Timeless humour!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA.
📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

#Archaeology

The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus pen, one below the other. The knib to the left. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The four images show the four lines of inscribed text which read:

‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi
gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’

‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift
with a sharp point that you may remember me. I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give)
as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’

The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman ‘Londinium’) by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

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Candida Moss @candidamoss.bsky.social · Jul 23

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

Book cover. The background in sepia tones Showa man dictating to scribes. A cream box in the center has light brown writing that contains the title (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean) and the words "Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candid R. Moss, and Jospeh A. Howley.

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · Jul 12

Are you interested in writing and its visual appearance and/or visibility? If so, please consider sending an abstract for our conference! CFP deadline 5th September 2025, dates of conference 26th-29th March 2026.

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Writing As Visual Engagement

WAVE 2 26th-29th March 2026, Cambridge Following last year’s successful first conference, Writing As Visual Experience (WAVE), we are excited to announce the Call For Papers for our second conferen…

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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · May 30

I‘m so pleased to hear you found the book useful, thank you for letting me know!

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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · May 30

Huge thanks to the Kantonsarchäologie Aargau and the Vindonissa Museum for hosting us, and to the @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de for supporting my work and giving it such a great platform!

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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · May 30

We visited one of the most important sites for stylus tablet finds in the northwestern Roman provinces, Vindonissa, where hundreds of tablets were preserved in a rubbish dump outside the legionary fortress.

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Anna Willi @annabwilli.bsky.social · May 30

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🏺

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L.I.S.A. @lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de · May 28

Schreiben wie die alten Römer: Mit Unterstützung der @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de erforscht Dr. Anna Willi die Materialität römischer Wachstäfelchen. Was uns die unscheinbaren Tafeln verraten, erzählt sie in der ersten Episode unserer Videoreihe. lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/tabulae_cera...

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · May 13

Dorset Museum @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social is fundraising to acquire, conserve and display the Bronze Age *Crichel Hoard*

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

which includes a twisted gold ribbon torc

Fundraising details here:
www.dorsetmuseum.org/the-crichel-...

Crichel Hoard: Dorset Museum to acquire Bronze Age gold

Dorset Museum is raising £9,000 to acquire the 3,000-year-old Crichel Hoard of gold ornaments.

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The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social · Apr 16

CfP: The Ancient Mediterranean and the British Museum: Pasts and Futures
A conference exploring the past impact and future potential of the Museum’s ancient Mediterranean collections, in-person in Senate House 25 - 27 Feb 2026. Abstracts (300 words max) due Mon 16 Jun 2025.
https://bit.ly/4lCkltp

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Ancient Mediterranean and the British Museum: Pasts and Futures

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Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social · Apr 9

Apply for our Alexander the Great AHRC PhD opportunity with The British Museum: "Disruption and Diversity: Understanding the Impact of Alexander the Great Through the Material Culture of the Hellenistic World."

Application Deadline: 17:00 (UK time) 15 May 2025
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AHRC CDP – Disruption and Diversity: Understanding the Impact of Alexander the Great Through the Material Culture of the Hellenistic World

Project opportunity - AHRC CDP – Disruption and Diversity: Understanding the Impact of Alexander the Great Through the Material Culture of the Hellenistic World at the University of Leeds

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Dr Anna Reeve @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social · Mar 20

Delighted that the volume ‘Empire and Excavation: Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus, 1878–1960’, edited by Thomas Kiely, Lindy Crewe, and me, is now available open access. Huge thanks to all our contributors: www.sidestone.com/books/empire...

Empire and excavation @ Sidestone Press

The modern discipline of archaeology developed in tandem with the expansion of European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. Cyprus, ruled by Britain between 1878 and 1960, is a fascinating exa...

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Andrew West 魏安 @babelstone.co.uk · Mar 12

Monumental three-volume Handbook of Epigraphic Cultures to be published by De Gruyter, early next year hopefully. Open Access eBook! Includes chapters on Khitan and Tangut epigraphy.

Flyer publicizing two forthcoming Handbooks on Material Text Culture from De Gruyter: Handbook of Medieval Book Ornament [ISBN 978-3-11-141107-1] and Handbook of Epigraphic Cultures (3 volumes) [ISBN 978-3-11-124094-7]

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Glynn JC Davis @camulodunumcurator.bsky.social · Jan 24

Final hours of install before press descend on #GladiatorsOfBritain @dorsetmuseum.bsky.social One of the amazing BM objects is this #Roman lamp with a personalised name written into the wet clay - Gaius Maximus. A rare instance of a named #gladiator, or perhaps a fan of this retiarius? #FindsFriday

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · Dec 12

Children loved to play with toys in #Roman times too: some 1,800 years ago, a child in Cologne was buried with a terracotta with a rider on wheels. It was certainly a much-loved which the child was also supposed to play with in the afterlife.

📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

🏺 AncientBluesky

The picture shows a terracotta horse with a rider on four wheels.

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · Dec 3

The beauty of an attempt to erase stuff in clay is that it can leave behind ancient smeared and smudged fingerprints.

This tablet from Uruk, dated to the 600s BCE (or later), might be a school exercise text showing some partially erased cuneiform signs collections.peabody.yale.edu/search/Recor...

A rectangular cuneiform tablet. The front and back and sides are shown. On the front are some partially erased cuneiform signs. The watermark is for the Yale Babylonian Collection.

Obverse of a clay tablet with some partially erased cuneiform signs, next to a measurement that shows it is about 5cm long and a watermark for the British museum

Close-up of the left side of a cuneiform tablet showing smeared fingerprints and partially erased cuneiform signs

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Dan Diffendale @diffendale.bsky.social · Nov 17

rather the Venetic alphabet, borrowed from & closely related to the north Etruscan alphabet, but with punctuation and additional signs to represent sounds present in Venetic (an Indo-European language) but not in Etruscan. This is a (4th-2nd c. BCE) votive model of a school exercise tablet... (1/5)🏺

Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · Nov 17

Etruscan Alphabet Tablet (5th Century BC) on bronze sheet with engraved sequences of letters, found from Este, among the votive objects from the Sanctuary of Reithia (Veneto region, Italy).

Archaeological Museum of Este, Padua, Italy

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TALANTA @talantaeditors.bsky.social · Apr 30

📣 Call for Articles! 📣
We invite submissions for TALATNA volume 57 (2025). Closing date is the 30th September 2024.
Author guidelines and style guide can be found on our website (talanta.nl). For enquiries and submissions, please contact us via [email protected].

| TALANTA – Proceedings of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · Nov 27

[Current Epigraphy] Postgraduate Course in Epigraphy, Rome, June 27th–July 6th 2024 currentepigraphy.org/2023/11/24/p...

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · Nov 24

And another Cambridge Elements book, on Egyptian scribal culture:

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Tweet by @ManonYSchutz

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Peter Reavill @peterreavill.bsky.social · Nov 8

Also this looks fun

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