Today we celebrated Dr Thomas Mannack's 40th anniversary of starting work here as a researcher on our #BeazleyArchive Pottery Database – an extraordinary milestone on the Database's extraordinary journey!
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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 Fr.the area of #Florence & #Fiesole 5BC Museo Archeologico di Fiesole #Tuscany | MCAF www.museidifiesole.it Phs MSP Antiqvvs @antiqvvs.bsky.social Ph-ed objct's cllctn itm of MCAF Sorry 4the wtrmrks #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.”
David Gill@davidwjgill.bsky.social · 2y agoFragmentary Athenian pots can tell another story. Gill, D. W. J., and C. Tsirogiannis. 2024. "Fragmented pots and Dietrich von Bothmer." Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 69: 535–94. doi.org/10.2307/2734...
*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... 👍 🌍🌎🌏
Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China
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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...
Brilliant stuff - about my clever colleague Ine Jacobs @OxfordByzantine @UniofOxford. Move over, Indiana Jones ! www.development.ox.ac.uk/impact-stori...
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.
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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...
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-...)
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...
303121, ATHENIAN, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, London, British Museum, 1866,0415.249
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Peter Stewart@petercnstewart.bsky.social · 2y agoDancing figures on the hem of Athena's tunic. Panathenaic amphora from Taucheira, c. 410-400 BC. [Photo: copyright trustees of the British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... ]
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_...
