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Featuring a special contribution by @willdalrymple.bsky.social !

Our latest open access book is out! Classical Art and Ancient India is available in print and free online www.carc.ox.ac.uk/carc/publica...

(Probably) textile-influenced early Hellenistic wall-painting in the 'Soteriades Tomb' at Dion. 📸 www.cm2project.gr/index.php/di...

Beautiful tailoring here on an Athenian red-figure cup from Nola @carcoxford.bsky.social #BeazleyArchive no. 211555.

Wonderful to see this landmark new study of the emergence of Faliscan figure-decorated pottery by our brilliant @carcoxford.bsky.social visiting researcher Angela Pola!

Greek mythological figures on dyed woollen textile from tomb 6 of the Seven Brothers necropolis, Taman Peninsula, ca. early 4th century BC. [Drawing from Stephani Compte-Rendu Commission Imp. 1881, via Gleba and Krupa 2012]

ETRUSCAN FEMALE Head-Shaped #Oinochoe
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#Florence & #Fiesole
5BC
Museo Archeologico di Fiesole
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Phs MSP Antiqvvs @antiqvvs.bsky.social
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#archaeology #arthistory #etruscan #etruria #vasepainting #art

Lauren Morris Zoom seminar on Begram. Posted on behalf of colleagues at AMES in Oxford.

Now out in Chinese translation (free open access and print): Gandharan Art and the Classical World by Peter Stewart, transl. Li Yicong. 犍陀罗美术与希腊 – 罗马 世界:简明导论
www.carc.ox.ac.uk/gandharaConn...

Important new research suggests the Met curator’s personal collection of 20k ancient vase fragments “were deliberately dispersed among dealers and collectors to disguise the mechanism of the illicit market in antiquities and that Bothmer may have played a role in facilitating their movements.”

Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China

*Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China*, edited by Hans Beck and Griet Vankeerberghen, is now available!

It's the first volume in the new ANTIQUITY IN GLOBAL CONTEXT series with CUP.

A lot of exciting work in the pipeline... 👍

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Theseus striking (or rather prefiguring) the poses of the tyrannicides Harmodius and Aristogeiton, on west and east friezes of the Hephaisteion in Athens, c. 440s-430s BC (Photos from C. Morgan, Hesperia 31 [1962]).

*** FINAL REMINDER ***
ASPROM Symposium on Roman Mosaics
Tomorrow, Saturday 7 December, 13.45 (UK time)
All welcome!
See second part of this post for full details and how to obtain zoom link. 1/2
📷British Museum

The Lincoln Professorship of Classical Archaeology and Art has been advertized – Oxford's prestigious ancient Greek art chair, previously held by Beazley, Ashmole, Robertson, Boardman, Smith. Details here (vacancy 176331) my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Unearthing the secrets of the Byzantine world With support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Dr Ine Jacobs is digging into the history of an empire that sat at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa for over a millennium.

Brilliant stuff - about my clever colleague Ine Jacobs @OxfordByzantine @UniofOxford. Move over, Indiana Jones !

www.development.ox.ac.uk/impact-stori...

Athenian red-figure bobbin with image of Hermes and Ganymede (BAPD no. 848) stolen from the Agora excavations in 1974 (📷 Journal of Field Archaeology 1984). I wonder where it is now....

Fragment of Apulian calyx krater, c 400 BC, showing tattooed Thracian nurse. British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

Actualités de la céramique grecque 2/2024 Deuxième édition de l'écho de l'amphore

🏺🗣️ L'écho de l'amphore deux est en ligne, co-édité avec @pandosia.bsky.social et Lucille Garnery ! Pour suivre l'actualité de la céramique grecque, abonnez-vous !
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Boeotian Cabiric Ware 'is the only truly comic school of Classical Greek art' (RM Cook). Discuss.

Skyphos from the Cabeirion at Thebes, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social www.ashmolean.org/collections-...)

A scaffolding of about 6m height has been put up inside the gallery in order to mount a beam just below the ceiling.

Detail of the beam overlooking plaster casts, i.a. of the three Ephesian amazons.

One of our archaeology students trained as a carpenter for years and is pictured securing the beam to transversal steel girders.

Great things are afoot in our cast gallery at Tübingen university.

Stay tuned as we are getting ready to mount the largest statue ever to enter our collection (and I should add we already pride ourselves of having biggish casts of the Farnese Hercules and the Nike of Samothrace...).

Hades sprinkles the earth from a cornucopia while Persephone holds a scythe and sceptre in this Attic Red Figure pelike.

🖌 The Orestes Painter
🏛 National Archaeological Museum, Athens.

#Ancientbluesky 🏺

BAPD 303121 www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/08AF0...

A close-up of one of the nereids, showing their face (very big green eyes) and long dark curly hair

A view of the second metros, who has reddish-blonde curly hair sort of piled on top of their head

A view of the second nereid with a mirror in their hand and a reflection in the mirror

A view of the whole (fragmentary) tapestry on display

A tapestry with two Nereids (one of them holding a mirror), which is thought to have come from 5th- or 6th- century Egypt (per Dumbarton Oaks, where it is on display, though the findspot is unknown). It was very cool to be able to get so close to it and see all of this detail. 🏺

Or the Sampula tapestry, ca 1st century BC (repurposed as trousers) [Photo: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampul_...