archaeoINK - Jona Schlegel
@jonaschlegel.com
founder • archaeology science comm • (conceptual) illustration x programming • Amsterdam https://jonaschlegel.com/ https://www.archaeoink.com/
The ‘Sappho’ fresco from Pompeii. A beautiful Roman portrait of a young woman for #InternationalWomensDay She holds a writing tablet, and raises a writing stylus to her lips in thoughtful contemplation. 55-70 AD. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me #Archaeology
2/2 We both agree the exhibition is worth visiting if you’re in Amsterdam before March 1st. Listen to the newest episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Substack! Links are in the bio Please share, review (5⭐ ), and click subscribe, so you never miss an episode! #objectbiographies #ancientglass
We have been a bit sloppy when it comes to sharing our #archaeologyjournaling results🙈 So, here is the result of the Roman cradle, mastered by Jona! If you don't know what we're talking about, listen to episode 5 and share your drawing 📝 with us! #twta #archaeology #objectbiographies 📷️ by Jona
🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration. All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts. JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes@lemoustier.bsky.social · 8mo agoe.g. to produce these two – which are still problematic – took at least 80 batches of DALL-E 2 generation (each batch making multiple images), and on top of that, required direct editing of the #AI images themselves. Paper: Magnani & Clindaniel 2023 🏺🧪 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
prompt 10 of #archInk2025: palimpsest walls can keep stories in the form of graffiti by unknown graffitists. layers of paint, posters, and tags overlap, shaping the memory of a place and adding to the stratigraphy of a city. a living and active palimpsest
Neolithic people practiced astronomy to align megalithic stone structures with celestial events, using them as complex calendars and ceremonial sites. tp948 Celtic Alignment acrylic and oil on paper 17x11 inches £200 unframed. #art #painting #archaeology
#ArchInk Day 13 Pseudoscience I found this a strange prompt so I just decided to draw this incredibly archaeologically accurate building of Stonehenge #ArchInk2025 #Archaeology #Stonehenge
Artist’s painting of a hippo on a flake of limestone 🦛❤️ Perhaps a practice sketch, or just for the joy of painting 3,500 years ago! From Deir el-Bahri, Thebes, Egypt, c. 1479–1425 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology
The Nunalleq Digital Museum is a museum of Yup’ik archaeology in Alaska. Placing sovereignty in the hands of the descendent communities, it makes the #archaeology accessible whilst ensuring it is relevant to the community today #IndigenousPeoplesDay Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺
#ArchInk 4: bronze; 5: flint; 9: ivory #archaeology #illustration 🏺🏛️🗃️ Combining three prompts to look at early-19th century views of early Bronze Age artefacts.
I have strong feelings about stratigraphy. I have stronger feelings about the schematic examples that we use to teach stratigraphy. Artefacts shouldn't float in the middle of the layer, for example. No colour-coding, obscure symbols to indicate difference, etc. #archink #archink2025 #inktober +
#inktober2025 6)pierce. Ok confession: I’m a massive coward. Hate needles. So am full of wonder for my friends that have been pierced for tattoos. Going back to prehistory & the most astonishing Scythian Iron Age tattoos: mythical beasts preserved by permafrost in human skin at Pazyryk. #archaeology
WIP on a small diorama using some existing assets and some new ones recently created. I I wanted to test them out in a low light setting, and utilised a new sky rig node setup #blender #illustration #vikings #archaeology
Day 9 of #archInk: Ivory A bit of meditation practices: drawing one curved line after the other. Cross-section of a tusk, which forms a dense network of intersecting lines known as Schreger lines. They tell growth, material, and history at once. #archaeology
#ArchInk 2: shell; 3: residue; 6: horn; 7: textile; 8: stratigraphy #inktober #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺🏛️🗃️ Combining a few prompts to tell the story of Worcester Cathedral’s Cockleshell Pilgrim.
day 8 of #archInk: stratigraphy I reworked an older drawing from when the prompt was “written”. And here the trowel still “writes” the site’s stratigraphy in a way: layer by layer, deposit by deposit and interface by interface. #archaeology
Me (to The Internet, everybody listening, or just looking my way for more than 5 sec): „Look what we did!“ I received the prints of our #RepresentationMatters publication yesterday evening. It’s not only a collection of papers on the way we reproduce and communicate our knowledge towards audience.
#ArchInk 1: pigment #inktober #medievalsky #skystorians 🏺🏛️🗃️ Not sure how much I’ll be able to contribute this year, but I’ll try to chip in when I can.
day 7: textiles They rarely survive, but their traces do: loom weights, needles, fragments stuck to metal. This piece looks at those fragments and the ancient depictions of weaving/fabric creation on vessels that still show these practices. #archInk #archaeology
Doodle Day 1: archaeological evidence suggests that women were the majority of the world's first artists. #Art #Doodle web.archive.org/web/20131008...
A horn core is: A) a ska band B) the bony part under the keratin sheath on bovids C) a source of terrible puns and innuendos on an archaeological site “Horn” #archink #inktober #archink2025
day 6 of #archInk2025: horn I did a kind of archaeology journaling page, where I focused on exploring the texture of the horn, noting down functions and anatomy. #archInk
This is beautiful! Just shows also how complex a reconstruction drawing can become.
Dr Sophie Hay@pompei79.bsky.social · 10mo agoSurprisingly yet pleasingly complex - the tile elements required to reconstruct a Roman roof over the House of the Faun, #Pompeii. Beautiful watercolour, pencil, and ink illustrations by Pasquale Maria Veneri dating to 1843 on display in the National Archaeological Museum In Naples.
For day three of #archInk prompt: flint I created a digital collage of tools used during flint knapping and the by products spreading around the production zone: flakes and blades. #archaeology #archInk2025
We have a new series of "Digital Lunch"- free, hybrid talks hosted by the Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lab at the University of York. Don't be fooled by the name, we've asked experts on the very cutting edge of the field to talk to us about their research. Sign up: forms.gle/qeRcHHe5z3Kf...
