So we all know this scene from the Villa of the Mysteries with something 'mysterious' being unveiled in the basket next to a winged figure. Now look at this campana plaque in the Louvre. (1) collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...

Gorgeous by I really wish they had skipped showing the birds shoved into the basket... Looks v uncomfortable arachne.dainst.org/entity/2197549

Blue stripes on dish towels have apparently been around for a v v long time.

In the last 36 hours with the heat and smoke broken, I slept 12 hours and read the whole of the 1st Scholomance novel before pressing it into my daughter's hands and ordering her to read it so we could discuss. I've not demolished a physical book like this in ages. Thanks! @naominovik.bsky.social

I just found my new favorite public domain coloring book! 😜 archive.org/details/repe...

Completely amused by the little Hercules below pulling at the curtain as if he's feeling excluded from the divine realm about and is trying to peak in.

How dare they treat OUR artifacts like RARE ARTWORK?! In which some scientists and journalists discover that there is an inherent tension between commodification and shared human knowledge.... If only someone had worried about this before! 🤔 www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Am I holding the world? Am I holding Rome? Oh, says Atlas, get what you're doing here! From Ostia. arachne.dainst.org/entity/6269372

I don't like this genital placement for a centaur. It is just wrong and disturbing.

So that photo isn't really eye catching this line drawing may get more of you excited who doesn't love a Roman General using Latin in the Greek East.

Epigraphy Peeps! Archaeological Site Photographers! Any one have a hi res of the bottom line? I want to look closer at the letter forms of MARTEI. This stone was found in the sanctuary of Apollo at Sikyon and now is in the local museum. Image source: www.jstor.org/stable/48775...

One of my students posted this to the class blog. It is my new favorite photo of myself.

This fun passage never gets old. Pun intended! Pickled Pork for ALL!

It has been a hard week. All the students are now safely with those they love and on to their next adventures. And, I find myself wistful over missing the memorial for Dr. Elizabeth Fisher. This is a testimonial I wrote to her as an educator in 2000. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/w...

I write along side my students to experience the joy of writing but also to remember I should not ask of them what I will not ask of myself. romeviabrooklyn.org/author/achil...

This afternoon I set out for a remarkable experience made possible by the incredible generosity of non-profits and individual donors. I get to spend three weeks with 11 incredible undergrads as diverse as our campus community. You can join us vicariously thru our blogging: romeviabrooklyn.org

I feel like spitting and growling when I see this type of attribution. Offered for sale to the ultra wealthy some time in the past. Now location unknown.

This is leadership. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This mirror is discussed at length by de Grummond 2018. I'm convinced by her interpetations of the four standing figures (R ➡️ L) Achilles, Odysseus, and two personifications. But I struggle with reading the seated figure as male?! It is labelled Mezntie. I'd love her to be right. Any thoughts?

Is there anything Corey Brennan has not thought about?! I'm such a fan-girl, but sometimes I find myself bemoaning if I can every approach such industry. livyarrow.org/2026/06/09/a...

This post does not have answers, just questions and comparisons. I NEED ANSWERS. (ok, ok, I want, not need them.) livyarrow.org/2026/06/09/w... (I *need* to go back to curriculum tweaks for my study abroad that starts next week. Boo.)

I'm cleaning my home office today and found a treasure I feel I just don't know what to do with. A perfect copy (barring the 3 hole punch folder that has kept it safe) of 31 August 1946 which has the original printing of John Hersey's Hiroshima. What would you do with it? 1/

A medal of Julian the Philosopher (Apostate) with imagery of the cult of Isis c.361-363 CE. Not the coin I was looking for but too good not to share! [RIC VIII Rome 494]

"I am the sacred property of Hera-in-the-Plain: Kyniskos the butcher dedicated me, a tithe from his works." Sybaris, c. 520 BCE. I wasn't looking for this object, but now I love it so.

It has been a heck of a work trip with more stumbling blocks than I'd like to discuss. Let's just say I hope the man flying in from Switzerland can find whatever is the matter with the solenoid (which I always miss spell Solon-oid). Anyway found a Homer bench under a Homer mural this AM.

Now we know Ice was always bad. Only cubes of frozen water for me! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

More violets better preserved.

"Gathered by Ida while lying on a bed of Violets Rome 23 March / 86" Perhaps some archeo-botanist's dream? Savile is at once sentimental and a bit of pack rat but also seems to be only saving that which sparks personal joy. Did he throw out his correspondence over Nemi in frustration at Orsini?

My district went republican in 2024. We've always been purple and flipfloppy. Our current congress critter got in with Trumpism. The democratic primary was heated yesterday with lots of outside money flooding our media ecosystem. The candidate endorsed by by AOC and Bernie won. Take heart.

Here is a truism for the ages! "Good Champagne seems to have a most cheering effect on the archaeologists." A postscript to a letter of 23 February 1889 [DDSR 226/24/79]