I wonder if the designers of the current MacBook screen realized they were making the greatest cat head scratcher?

Contemplating spending a ruinous amount on The General Councils of the Eastern Christian Churches, if Brepols offers a discount at the International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Vienna: www.brepols.net/products/IS-... I need my critical edition of the the synodal acts of the Church of the East.

Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/

I'd really like to know more about silver talers. This "Wild Man" taler from the principality of Braunschweig-Lüneburg-Calenberg is pretty snazzy.

I like how the Artuqids of Mardin (1101–1409) looked at Islamic numismatic tradition and said, "yes, and..." #numismatics

Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

No, this seems fine www.wsj.com/opinion/why-...

A game board from the forum of Timgad (Algeria) is a more Roman spin on the trite ‘Live, Laugh, Love’ sign. Replacing hunting w/cheese & and I am in, y’all. ‘venari lavari / ludere ridere / (h)oc{c} est / vivere’: ‘to hunt, to bath, to play, to laugh — This is to live!’ (CIL VIII, 17938). 🛁

One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences.

I have such an expertly curated algorithm that I'm seeing posts from Mexican street food restaurants in the US and this is how they're advertising the game tomorrow night. "Good vibes"

I built a free scholary converter for 20 premodern calendar systems — Julian, Hijri, Solar Hijri, Coptic, Armenian, Byzantine, Syriac, Athenian and more: kalkal.online

Back in the second century, someone in ancient Nubia thought life is better with a frog mug. ❤️

Scriptorium in the clouds. Gospels of Sainte-Aure, France 9th century. BnF, Arsenal 1171, fol. 17v. #medieval #MedievalArt

The recent article by Touraj Daryaee, "A Fragrance for Every Woman, Man, and Child: The Smell of the Sasanian Empire" brought this wonderful silk textile in the David Collection of Copenhagen (inv. 23/2011) to my attention. It features a pattern of enthroned Sasanian kings. 1/

As someone who has spend a lot of time over the years reading acts of Church councils as a sideline to my research this is just...*chef's kiss*.

demon core vidal@regretagarbo.rip · last mo.

the owner of my bar just showed me this “report” he wrote for sunday school when he was a kid. i am fucking crying

A Sasanian-era seal of a Bābōy "the head" with an image of the Good Shepherd on it. Christelle Jullien, et. al. argue in a recent (2023) article that it might be the seal of the late 5th century Church of the East Catholicos Bābōy. If it actually is, then there's a hell of a story attached to it 1/

The symbols of the evangelists BnF MS Latin 9392; Gospels of Senones Abbey (dioc. of Saint-Dié); 11th century; ff.7v, 26v, 63r, 121v @gallicabnf.bsky.social

I picked up this very text-heavy denarius to give my students a chance to puzzle out the meanings of Latin imperial titles and offices. Domitian really put it all out there on this little coin. 1/

Guys has anyone actually read this article?

The New York Times@nytimes.com · last mo.

Rep. Thomas Kean, who has been absent from Washington since March, answered the door of his New Jersey home on Wednesday.

I love tetradrachms. Here's one in the collection minted by Tigranes II the Great of Armenia (r. 95–55 BCE). Love his spiky tiara with eagles and ear flaps, and the Tyche of Antioch and the river god Orontes on the reverse, commemorating his assumption of power over Syria from the Seleucids.

Then it's worth mentioning the Middle Persian word for "giraffe": /uštargāwpalang/ (NP شترگاوپلنگ /šotorgāvpalang/) (camel+cow+leopard)

Andrew Jacobs (he/him)@drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy World Giraffe Day (apparently)!

Franco Fontana (Italy, 1933) is one of the most important pioneers of artistic color photography. Whether he photographs Puglian hills or skyscrapers in Los Angeles, his images are almost always completely empty of people, transforming the locations into compositions in which color takes centerstage

Busy day with a house project but I thought I'd take a sec and share a photo from one of my favorite places, Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. Nikon Z9, Z 24-70mm S lens at 24mm, f2.8, ISO100, 1/400 second

🗣️ Medievalists! 🏰 Check out this page, we’ve done a reconstruction the medieval chapel at Chester Castle! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... Please share widely! There’s loads of info and *lovely* images from the repertoire of medieval art - and also more reconstructions!

The Chester Castle Chapel Wall Paintings

The walls of the medieval chapel in the Agricola Tower at Chester Castle were richly painted around 1240 with scenes including miracles of the Virgin Mary and St Edward the Confessor. From the fragmen...

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The GWU Textile Museum's online catalog is a real treasure trove. The vaguely worried eyes of the figures on this Coptic tunic decoration are great.

I really want some knock offs of these medieval socks from Egypt (12th century CE?) at the GWU Textile Museum. collections-gwu.zetcom.net/en/collectio...

The median British TV show is called "Dicksmooth" It's a crime procedural about a Royal Mail courier named Wint and his dog Reggie solving one murder a week in an overcast Essex village of 50 people It's been on for 15 years, has 24 episodes, and a cult of followers who will kill for it

It’s the #WorldCup & here’s my 5th famous item from each country in the World Cup. It’s BELGIUM 🇧🇪. This terrific little bas relief is in the La Tène style. It shows a warrior in a horned helmet riding a stylised horse with a large oval shield. The shield has a human face decoration 🕰️ C2nd-1st BC

Tile https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/3731/

18th century "cat contract" (納貓兒契式; based on a Yuan-dynasty original), laying out the cat's duties and responsibilities: tirelessly guarding the grain, repelling the "mousey bandits" (鼠賊), not messing with the livestock, not stealing numnums "of any kind whatsoever" (不得偷盜食諸般).