Dr Anna Reeve
@cypriotartleeds
Material culture historian, exploring the history of Cypriot archaeology and ancient Cypriot collections in UK museums. Ceramics fan. Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies and Associate Lecturer in Classics, Open University. Views my own.
Ensconced in my own study carrel at Senate House Library. So much writing is going to happen here…
A good choice on a hot afternoon… some refreshing Greek tragedy (Medea) at the lovely Leeds City Varieties.
Ancient and modern... an ancient Cypriot pig from Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery meets a modern pig created by @pottedhistory.bsky.social @potsofhistory.bsky.social
More joyful lunacy from 'To My Ships'. You too can answer the question 'What do you smell of?' with 'Incessant anxiety'.
TIL that the poet Arthur Rimbaud spent time in Cyprus as a young man and worked on the construction of the Governor’s summer residence in the Troodos mountains. For more see ‘Cyprus at the Louvre’ - a fantastic free catalogue is available to download for those who, like me, can’t make it in person 😢
I love collectors of Cypriot antiquities who were in the Royal Navy, because you know exactly where they went and when.
Old friends travelling through time… I’ve followed these ancient Cypriot vessels into, through and out of the Wellcome collection, to their current location in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Photo credit: ‘Identification of objects’, WA/HMM/CM/Dan/8
Top recommendation from @lizgloyn.bsky.social - bought one of these.
I love this 1940s photo from the Wellcome digital archive. Thanks to much archival exploration, I know where some of these objects came from, and where they are now. So many stories to tell… wellcomecollection.org/works/u47nfn...
With my favourite people in one of my favourite places #RHSHarlowCarr
A beautiful new (old) lantern slide and happy memories of visiting Kouklia on my very first visit to Cyprus.
It is the fabulous Pride and Prejudice display at Bankfield Museum, Halifax - there may have been just a little bit of swooning.
Matlock is very pretty, and Derby Record Office is incredibly efficient - 10/10 for a quality archive experience.
Natural history question: could the large pair of horns to the upper right of this image - just above the framed pictures - conceivably come from an ibex? Well outside my area of expertise…
Suggested a minor adjustment to BBC's advice on 'What happens if you find treasure': www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Also, ‘But of antiquities I must stop talking, since they may have more fascination for me than for my readers’ #never
Words to live by from H. Rider Haggard: ‘I have discovered many references to this in the course of my reading, but lack the time to search them out now; also to do so would be to overburden these pages’ #amreading #amwriting #butnotciting
A little Latin practice at York Minster (including a good ‘quippe qui’).