There is no career ladder in UKHE. It's impossible to move from PhD > post-doc/teaching fellow > permanent job. Redundancies and course closures are essential concerns, but we aren't talking enough about the fact that a whole generation is being frozen out.
When current profs retire, who's left?
A great opportunity for a (increasingly rare) funded PhD for budding Roman historians: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ960/t...
New Herculaneum scroll scan just dropped, with letters immediately visible: open.substack.com/pub/scrollpr...
My 2024 Classics Christmas Gift Guide is now out, and full of many pretty things! Do check it out, share, and support small businesses!
#AncientBlueSky #ClassicsBlueSky 🏺
classicalstudies.support/2024/11/27/t...
A photo taken during the excavation, showing weapons
A photo taken during excavations showing the chainmail
New discovery: Archaeologists have made a sensational discovery northwest of Hedensted, Denmark: a massive and exceptionally well-preserved weapon hoard consisting of more than a hundred lances, spears, and swords, as well as a chainmail.
www.vejlemuseerne.dk/udstillinger...
🏺#archaeology
A round portrait tondo, in naturalistic style. It depicts at the top, Julia Domna (left) wearing impossibly large pearl earrings and necklace, her hair arranged in typical wig-like waves. Septimius Severus (right) wears a mantle trimmed in gold and deep red, and is depicted with thick curly grey hair and beard, with the beard in the tripartite style reminiscent of Serapis. Caracalla is depicted on the lower right, a young boy of 10 or so, with dark curly hair arranged similarly to his father, also wearing a mantle trimmed with gold. Beside him to the right is likely his brother Geta, whose face has been erased from the painting. He wears the same finery as the rest of the family, including the large gold crowns they all wear.
The Severan Tondo, a tempera portrait of the Emperor Septimius Severus, his wife Julia Domna, and their two sons, Caracalla and Geta. Geta's face has been scrubbed out in an act of damnatio memoriae.
c. AD 200, Egypt, possibly the Fayum, Staatliche Museum zu Berlin (inv. 31.329).
A lovely bit of Roman glass to brighten the day: a dark blue glass 'trulla', decorated with a fine white spiral: ca. 1st Century AD. Discovered in a funerary tumulus at Berlingen. #Roman #AncientBluesky 🏺
Image: Gallo-Roman Museum, Tongeren (69.B.26.6). Link - hdl.handle.net/21.15108/7607
Here we go! The British School at Rome has also joined the Bluesky community. Follow us to find out about our events, scholarships, exhibitions, opportunities and more!
Macedonian shield with elephant's head in the middle, M·METELLVS·Q·F, all in laurel wreath. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10426109v
Interested in #coins and #genealogy of the #RomanRepublic?
Manfredi Zanin just published his detailed study on "I tirumviri monetali degli anni 150-70 a.C." (OA):
boris-portal.unibe.ch/entities/pub...
Coin: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
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New to Bluesky? Love museums? We have you covered!
We're constantly adding new museums, libraries, and arts orgs to our Arts & Culture Starter Pack.
Today, we welcomed the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social, @artukdotorg.bsky.social, and many more :)
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Job alert for ECRs working in English, Music, Theology or Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic: stipendiary early-career research fellowship at Corpus Christi College (Cambridge). Deadline 8 Jan 2025. www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/about/opport...
A beautiful #Roman blue glass bowl, recovered during excavations in the city of Nijmegen (Netherlands). Not only is it a very lovely piece of glass, but it was actually found completely intact - not even a crack! - which is remarkable for a piece of 2000 year old glassware! AncientBlueSky
#OnThisDay - 17 November - in AD 9 Titus Flavius Vespasianus (my fave!) was born. As the 'last man standing' at the end of the Long Year that was AD 69, he inaugurated the Flavian Dynasty. #AncientBluesky 🏺
Image: RIC 2.1 Vespasian 515; ANS 1956.184.26. Link - numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric....