Judith Herrin
@judithherrin.bsky.social
Historian: especially of Early Christendom, the Middle Ages, Byzantium, Ravenna, and the role of women.
Wonderful conference in Naples
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Wonderful conference in Naples
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Autumn progressing in the walled garden at Royden Park. 🍁🍃🍂
Last-gasp equaliser for Tranmere Rovers too, I believe. 👍⚽️
Last-gasp equaliser for Tranmere Rovers too, I believe. 👍⚽️
October 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Autumn progressing in the walled garden at Royden Park. 🍁🍃🍂
Last-gasp equaliser for Tranmere Rovers too, I believe. 👍⚽️
Last-gasp equaliser for Tranmere Rovers too, I believe. 👍⚽️
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Most histories of hoodies go with 12th century monks as the originator, but I like to show my students this one from 5th-7th century Egypt.
October 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Most histories of hoodies go with 12th century monks as the originator, but I like to show my students this one from 5th-7th century Egypt.
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Angel (Eucharist Cycle) https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/angel-eucharist-cycle-1113
October 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Angel (Eucharist Cycle) https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/angel-eucharist-cycle-1113
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For #findsfriday the most adorable #chess piece ever!
A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century.
Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen.
📷 me
🏺
#archaeology
A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century.
Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen.
📷 me
🏺
#archaeology
June 20, 2025 at 6:56 AM
For #findsfriday the most adorable #chess piece ever!
A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century.
Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen.
📷 me
🏺
#archaeology
A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century.
Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen.
📷 me
🏺
#archaeology
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Friday 20 June, the Acropolis Museum celebrates its 16th anniversary!
www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/...
www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/...
The Acropolis Museum celebrates its 16th birthday, Friday 20 June 2025
On Friday, 20 June 2025, the Acropolis Museum celebrates its 16th anniversary and on this occasion invites the Symphony Orchestra of the Department of Mus
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June 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Friday 20 June, the Acropolis Museum celebrates its 16th anniversary!
www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/...
www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/...
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Christ Washing the Feet of Saint Peter https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/christ-washing-the-feet-of-saint-peter-1056
May 29, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Christ Washing the Feet of Saint Peter https://www.wikiart.org/en/byzantine-mosaics/christ-washing-the-feet-of-saint-peter-1056
Yes, now online at Princeton university ‘s Davis Center. Hope you enjoy them!
Ooooh these look great - is there any chance they will be online, do you know?
May 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Yes, now online at Princeton university ‘s Davis Center. Hope you enjoy them!
And now online at the Davis Center, history dept, Princeton university. Hope you enjoy watching !
May 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
And now online at the Davis Center, history dept, Princeton university. Hope you enjoy watching !
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I'm looking forward to this!
April 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I'm looking forward to this!
Now online at the Davis Center. History department Princeton university. Happy viewing!
@judithherrin.bsky.social I would love to hear these lectures!
May 28, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Now online at the Davis Center. History department Princeton university. Happy viewing!
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Good morning from the Roman Baths!
May 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Good morning from the Roman Baths!
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Marble slab with cross and tetragram from Hieron Castle/Yoros Kalesi
It can be read as
ΦC XC ΦC ΠC (Φῶς Χριστὸς φῶς πᾶσιν)
“Light of Christ, the Light of all”
It can be read as
ΦC XC ΦC ΠC (Φῶς Χριστὸς φῶς πᾶσιν)
“Light of Christ, the Light of all”
May 25, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Marble slab with cross and tetragram from Hieron Castle/Yoros Kalesi
It can be read as
ΦC XC ΦC ΠC (Φῶς Χριστὸς φῶς πᾶσιν)
“Light of Christ, the Light of all”
It can be read as
ΦC XC ΦC ΠC (Φῶς Χριστὸς φῶς πᾶσιν)
“Light of Christ, the Light of all”
Reposted by Judith Herrin
Surprisingly fresh-looking 3rd-century glass goblet with enamelled painting illustrating the myth of hero Achilles’ amorous adventures on the island of Skyros. Unearthed 1991 in excavation on Richard Wagner Strasse, Cologne (Romisch-Germanisches Museum)
May 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Surprisingly fresh-looking 3rd-century glass goblet with enamelled painting illustrating the myth of hero Achilles’ amorous adventures on the island of Skyros. Unearthed 1991 in excavation on Richard Wagner Strasse, Cologne (Romisch-Germanisches Museum)
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Janet Suzman, Chair of BCRPM is puzzled by the naivete of some of the statements in the Daily Mail online article
www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/...
#moralresponsibility #reunitetheparthenonmarbles #BCRPM
www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/...
#moralresponsibility #reunitetheparthenonmarbles #BCRPM
Janet Suzman puzzled by the naivete of some of the statements in the Daily Mail article
The Daily Mail also reported on George Clooney's continued support for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.
Published on 18 May, Gavin Madeley wr
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May 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Janet Suzman, Chair of BCRPM is puzzled by the naivete of some of the statements in the Daily Mail online article
www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/...
#moralresponsibility #reunitetheparthenonmarbles #BCRPM
www.parthenonuk.com/latest-news/...
#moralresponsibility #reunitetheparthenonmarbles #BCRPM
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Reposted by Judith Herrin
Hieron Castle/Yoros Kalesi, a fortress on the northern shore of the Anatolian (Asian) coast of the Bosphorus by the Black Sea.
Images by Achille Etna Michallon (1816), Thomas Allom (1836), W.H. Bartlett (1838), and Jules Laurens (1846)
Images by Achille Etna Michallon (1816), Thomas Allom (1836), W.H. Bartlett (1838), and Jules Laurens (1846)
May 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Hieron Castle/Yoros Kalesi, a fortress on the northern shore of the Anatolian (Asian) coast of the Bosphorus by the Black Sea.
Images by Achille Etna Michallon (1816), Thomas Allom (1836), W.H. Bartlett (1838), and Jules Laurens (1846)
Images by Achille Etna Michallon (1816), Thomas Allom (1836), W.H. Bartlett (1838), and Jules Laurens (1846)
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May 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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For #MosaicMonday, from a cubiculum in the Villa Romana del Casale, a detail from a larger mosaic depicting children making flower crowns and hunting farm animals and small game. Here, one child spears a goat while another flees a peacock.
#Archaeology 🏺 #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky
#Archaeology 🏺 #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky
May 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
For #MosaicMonday, from a cubiculum in the Villa Romana del Casale, a detail from a larger mosaic depicting children making flower crowns and hunting farm animals and small game. Here, one child spears a goat while another flees a peacock.
#Archaeology 🏺 #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky
#Archaeology 🏺 #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky
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Part of a mosaic from Verulamium (Roman St. Albans). The mosaic comes from a large town house with a hypocaust below, and dates to around 200 AD. The mosaic is located within Verulamium Park, close to Verulamium Roman Museum.
📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
May 19, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Part of a mosaic from Verulamium (Roman St. Albans). The mosaic comes from a large town house with a hypocaust below, and dates to around 200 AD. The mosaic is located within Verulamium Park, close to Verulamium Roman Museum.
📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
📷 My own. #MosaicMonday #RomanBritain
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Las ventanas of #Spain.
13th Century Castillo de las Aguzardarus, in a field not far from #Seville.
#photography #castles #history
13th Century Castillo de las Aguzardarus, in a field not far from #Seville.
#photography #castles #history
May 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Las ventanas of #Spain.
13th Century Castillo de las Aguzardarus, in a field not far from #Seville.
#photography #castles #history
13th Century Castillo de las Aguzardarus, in a field not far from #Seville.
#photography #castles #history
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All were hushed as Aeneas began to tell of the destruction of Troy:
"Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant."
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, F III 3; Composite manuscript (Virgil); 3rd quarter of the 15th century; Paris; f.111v (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
"Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant."
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, F III 3; Composite manuscript (Virgil); 3rd quarter of the 15th century; Paris; f.111v (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
April 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
All were hushed as Aeneas began to tell of the destruction of Troy:
"Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant."
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, F III 3; Composite manuscript (Virgil); 3rd quarter of the 15th century; Paris; f.111v (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
"Conticuere omnes intentique ora tenebant."
Basel, Universitätsbibliothek, F III 3; Composite manuscript (Virgil); 3rd quarter of the 15th century; Paris; f.111v (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/...)
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Still on our #TeamVenus-theme. This #FrescoFriday offering is a depiction of Venus and Amor from Pompeii.
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April 11, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Still on our #TeamVenus-theme. This #FrescoFriday offering is a depiction of Venus and Amor from Pompeii.
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The British Museum argues that the Parthenon Marbles/Sculptures are an essential element in their encyclopaedic narrative of world art and culture.
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#museums #culturalheritage #respect
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#museums #culturalheritage #respect
April 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The British Museum argues that the Parthenon Marbles/Sculptures are an essential element in their encyclopaedic narrative of world art and culture.
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#museums #culturalheritage #respect
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#museums #culturalheritage #respect
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Today's TA NEA, UK correspondent Yannis Andritsopoulos talks to Wales' First Minister, and first female Minister.
"The Parthenon Sculptures should be returned to Greece," said Minister, Eluned Morgan in an exclusive interview with the Greek daily newspaper.
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#reunitetheparthenonmarbles
"The Parthenon Sculptures should be returned to Greece," said Minister, Eluned Morgan in an exclusive interview with the Greek daily newspaper.
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#reunitetheparthenonmarbles
April 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Today's TA NEA, UK correspondent Yannis Andritsopoulos talks to Wales' First Minister, and first female Minister.
"The Parthenon Sculptures should be returned to Greece," said Minister, Eluned Morgan in an exclusive interview with the Greek daily newspaper.
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#reunitetheparthenonmarbles
"The Parthenon Sculptures should be returned to Greece," said Minister, Eluned Morgan in an exclusive interview with the Greek daily newspaper.
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#reunitetheparthenonmarbles