Judith Barr
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@J_E_Barr at the other place. City of Angels. #Provenance with a dash of Pleistocene. Collector of images of dealer stamps and stickers. Bad photos of good art & all opinions strictly my own. #jhuprovenance
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The real mummy’s curse: Health risks associated with the sale and trade of mummified remains | International Journal of Cultural Property | Cambridge Core
The real mummy’s curse: Health risks associated with the sale and trade of mummified remains - Volume 33
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Very first sentence is about the knapped artefacts First Nations people here made with ballast stones. Def of interest to archs!
The English Historical Review@enghistrev.bsky.social · 2d agoNew article! Matthew Evenden @arts.ubc.ca on 'Deptford Stones: London, the River Thames and the Circulation of Ballast in the Age of Sail, c.1750–c.1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
what a beautiful kind of philanthropy, this is very neat!
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2d agoI'll tell you something else deeply meaningful to me today: @archipelagobooks.bsky.social is publishing Sevgi Soysal's "Walking." It's the first translation I've sponsored, something I've wanted to do for a long time. When I read Soysal's "Dawn," I knew I wanted to see her other work in print.
Isn't lovely how little has changed?! Notice in the bottom right corner the makeup "compact" with six pigments and a protective lid! Above it the funny thing like a thumb is the pestle of a mortar for grinding fine powders. BM 1861,0523.2
So, you've heard 1, 2, or 30 podcasts about the Odyssey But you haven't heard @movieswedig.bsky.social and their Odyssey-Fighters @apistone.bsky.social @joegoodkin.bsky.social with @voguearchaeology.bsky.social haeology.bsky.social @ecfleming.bsky.social and me! open.spotify.com/episode/0jiv...
The Odyssey (2026), Reception Battle, Part 1, with Joel Christensen, Joe Goodkin and Amy Pistone
Movies We Dig | Film, Antiquity and Everything in Between · Episode
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I think the kerameikos would have loved glittery watercolors, to be honest
Fellow Type O folks, please come out and donate this weekend if you’re eligible, they are very out of universal blood AND they have many snacks in recompense www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Critical shortage: Red Cross declares second-ever blood supply crisis
For only the second time in its history, the Red Cross has declared a national crisis with blood donations hitting a four-year summer low.
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No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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New paper: Mesolithic mariners in the Central Mediterranean made sustained, long distance sea journeys. Not accidents, one offs, and not rare events. See thread in the comments. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar..., led by @jblinkhorn.bsky.social
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The question of the faithfulness of the Odyssey as a movie to the original is kind of subsumed by my joy that one single movie has caused wall to wall Ancient Greek posts and dialogues everywhere; a modern symposium prompt with a film as an absent centerpiece, an empty dinos we all circle around
What Eating the Lotus Taught Me About Customer Retention Everyone’s Talking About the Cyclops. But Here’s What They’re Missing About Cross-Functional Collaboration.
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In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove a car rigged with a motorized camera to capture Los Angeles’s most iconic street: Sunset Boulevard. He created a time capsule of its famed facades, beginning a 60-year-long commitment to documenting the changing urban landscape of postwar Los Angeles.
This! As a classicist I really love all the nuanced discourse. I have my own views, but I’m finding a lot of thoughtful observations. I also appreciate that there’s not a big “you have to read Homer in Greek to understand him.” That’s especially not true when talking about reception.
Karen K. Ho@karenho.bsky.social · last wk.on the bright side, it's kind of awesome that so many people are talking about THE ODYSSEY, the translation the movie is based on, the translator's own thoughts in the LRB, and what a big, ambitious film can mean in a market oversaturated with movies about superheroes and nostalgia for old titles
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Wanted: Missing Paintings from the Orléans Museum of Fine Arts
Museum collections are inalienable and cannot be subject to a statute of limitations, which means that the search for missing works must continue unabated. On November 4, 1825, the Musée d’Orléans ope...
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Orléans museum launches 'Wanted' campaign to track down 424 looted artworks
Nearly 85 years after Nazi forces looted its collections, the Orléans Museum of Fine Arts is turning to auctioneers, notaries and collectors to help recover the paintings and drawings still missing.
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Pour one out for Google's previous contender, an emoji on the precipice of a bilious explosion and a true joy to rate
Getty@gettymuseum.bsky.social · 2w agoAntiquities curators rate every "classical building" emoji. 🏛️
"What, then, do we have in this hero? He is a man who committed terrible acts of violence abroad...He came home and rescued the princess in the castle, enacting just enough violence to show who’s boss, and left again because it was the right thing to do." hyperallergic.com/a-homerist-r...
A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”
“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”
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LaCroix in a kylix really is the best, 10/10 concession situation
Getty@gettymuseum.bsky.social · 2w agoSomehow ancient history feels good in a place like this. We took the Getty Villa's experts to see Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey to get their initial reactions.
kylix aside, is there ongoing chat somewhere about the inexplicable Sea Peoples situation? did Nolan get beat up by an Amarna tablet?
🏺🧵: I’m just a girl with a simple dream: to drink from a novelty kylix while watching the Odyssey for work. How hard could it be to track down one (1) usable kylix?
Before you see Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” this weekend, Provost and Homer scholar Joel P. Christensen shares his insights on why the story resonates with audiences today @sentantiq.bsky.social
The ‘Odyssey’ Is the Epic of Our Time
Graduate Center Provost and “Why Odysseus?” author Joel P. Christensen explores Homer’s enduring power as audiences anticipate Christopher Nolan’s new film.
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PSA for everyone fresh to the Odyssey: double check those Antinous bust visuals
On advance access: "Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii" by @profbernard.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...
Slavery, Prosperity, and Inequality in Roman Pompeii*
Abstract. Historians of premodern economies, in contrast to modern ones, have only infrequently contemplated the economic contribution of slavery. Here, I
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Everyone thinks provenance is glamorous and somehow it’s actually demanding replays of hieroglyphs on PBS like it’s your World Cup
