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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · 15h

When he declares that "communist policies, which is proven for thousands of years doesn't work," he reveals himself to be a sensitive reader of Rostovtzeff's *Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire* (as we always suspected, of course).

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump and Bessent clarify that they will only help out Argentina as long as Milei is in power. Trump adds that the same thing goes with NYC, where the White House will hold up funds if Mamdani wins.

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 2h

LINKED PASTS SYMPOSIUM
#LinkedPasts

LP 11 (virtual: Dec 1-12, 2025), Call for Activities

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Linked Pasts Symposium 2025 CFP – Linked Pasts Symposium

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 2h

From medical complex to monastery? At Kaunos in Turkey, “Excavations near the city’s harbor have unearthed a Roman hospital that was later converted into a Byzantine (6thC )monastery complex w/ … a well-preserved church.” This is based on a # of medical instruments found there b4 the 6thC monastery.

Roman hospital transformed into Byzantine church unearthed in ancient city of Kaunos

Archaeologists uncover a Roman hospital turned Byzantine monastery in Kaunos, revealing 1,000 years of urban transformation.

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DAI @dai-weltweit.bsky.social · 4h

After an exciting start in Madrid in May, the "City & Micro-region in the Ancient Mediterranean (and Beyond)" #conference is entering its 2nd phase, this time at #Istanbul_DAI:

📅 30.10.-01.11.
🎙️ Evening lecture 30.10., 7 pm
📍 DAI Istanbul

👉 Programme & registration: www.dainst.org/veranstaltun...

Conference poster with an old Mediterranean map in the background. Text reads: “City & Micro-Region. International Conference II in the Ancient Mediterranean (and Beyond). Istanbul, 30 October – 1 November 2025.”

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Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · 5h

Sanskrit manuscripts have these abbreviations in the margin referring to texts - anyone aware if there is a complete list of the standard abbreviations?

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Archaeology Data Service @ads-update.bsky.social · 4h

⭐ The ADS Data Catalogue is Live!⭐

Explore hundreds of thousands of archaeological resources including over 100,000 reports and 5,000 archive collections.

👉To find out more and start exploring visit buff.ly/BMulYqQ

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 4h

The Cutting Edge: Conversations in #Epigraphy (research training) seminar today

The Tablet Box in Context: Epigraphic Perspectives on the Construction of Historical Knowledge in Ancient Assyrian, with Ben Dewar (ICS), 17:00 today, in person.

Register at ics.sas.ac.uk/events/table...

The Tablet Box in Context: Epigraphic Perspectives on the Construction of Historical Knowledge in Ancient Assyrian

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose if the question here is 'why don't these fields produce new discoveries at the same rate as the sciences' the answer is a pretty obvious, 'because they're not funded like the sciences.'

We could do a lot of archaeology with, say, a few billion dollars a year!

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 20h

I'm pretty sure I was sometimes hearing it by ca. 1990 while in the Air Force and subsequently (and more often) while working for a defense contractor. Usually in a joint, generalized, or gender-neutral context as other respondents have said.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 1d

Shout out to @rogueclassicist.bsky.social for leads that led to two new recent #PleiadesGazetteer entries: hcommons.social/@paregorios/...

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Time for a shout-out to @[email protected] ! Some of his recent posts led to new entries in the #PleiadesGazetteer. Two were linked in today's "Last Week" blog post. Granicus (battlefiel...

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 1d

Pelagios Network LOD People Activity: Sample Data Hack
Thursday October 30, 2025, 12:00–14:00. Online only.
Register for zoom link: www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

LOD People Activity: Sample Data Hack

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 1d

Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (6-13 October 2025)

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #classics #DH #gazetteers #HGIS

Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Last Week in Pleiades (6-13 October 2025): Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 10 new and 216 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Dan Diffendale, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Ryan M. Horne, Javier Martínez Jiménez […]

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A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map covers the area from northern Europe and the Strait of Gibraltar in the northwest to Sri Lanka in the southeast.

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Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure @gaerhf-bot.bsky.social · 2d

Overlapping conceptions of the human form from Malta and Sardinia. I don't mean that as any formal "Art Historical" statement. Just allowing for overlap in the Central Mediterranean. And beyond. 1: Bonu Ighinu Statuette from Sardiina (C. 4500 BCE) gaerhf.org#bonu-ighinu-... ... 🧵

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 4d

Grab some wine! Some late antique communion bread 🥖 loaves from the 7th-8th centuries with Jesus upon them have been discovered in Anatolia. www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2025/10/c...

Charred Byzantine-Era Loaves of Bread with Greek Inscriptions Discovered in Anatolia

An archaeological excavation campaign carried out at the Topraktepe site, corresponding to the ancient city of Irenopolis, has yielded a discovery of extraordinary scientific significance: five charre...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4d

On the 18th we need to be vigilant for increased violence and provocation by both law enforcement and counter-protestors, both of which will be used to try to justify more violence and authoritarianism.

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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 4d

British School at Rome Two-Year Residential Fellowship - Early Career (Deadline October 31) - The Classical Association of Canada
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British School at Rome Two-Year Residential Fellowship - Early Career (Deadline October 31) - The Classical Association of Canada

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 4d

Route to US in aftermath of WWII determined for Roman tombstone recently found in New Orleans:

rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 4d

(37) Mystery solved: How an ancient Roman tombstone ended up behind a shotgun house in New Orleans - YouTube
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Mystery solved: How an ancient Roman tombstone ended up behind a shotgun house in New Orleans

YouTube video by WWLTV

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 4d

New pleiades place record queued for editorial review.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 4d

Looks like this one: www.arxaiologikoktimatologio.gov.gr/el/search-da...

Στο χάρτη | Αρχαιολογικό Κτηματολόγιο

www.arxaiologikoktimatologio.gov.gr

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 5d

#FindsFriday! A Roman brush found in Bregenz.

Roman brush fragments are sometimes difficult to interpret; in this case, their function may relate to textile production, as suggested for similar finds in Eschenz.The bristled surface is suitable for carding or teasing wool fibers. 🧵1/2

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A photo of a well-preserved fragment of a Roman brush in a show case. The object consists of a rectangular base with rounded and scalloped edges, formed from wood into which hundreds of stiff rushes have been densely embedded.

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kgeographer 🇺🇦 🇬🇪 @kgeographer.bsky.social · 4d

Trump, Miller, and now random senators are trying to make the case that participants in #NoKings demonstrations are antifa. They will try very hard to provoke violence to get their true Reichstag equivalent.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 4d

yeah, I'd have thought the analogy is with epigraphic databases, where individual inscriptions have fields like "findspot" or "last observed location" or "presumed original location" and populate it with something that maps 1:1 to a Pleiades URI. Pleiades sidebar can aggregate these from a dump.

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Tom Elliott @paregorios.bsky.social · 4d

You're making me think about cross-linking Pleiades

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Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure @gaerhf-bot.bsky.social · 4d

There are now 450 entries in GAERHF. So I made a video of scrolling through the "List" view. And paused to click on a few along the way. That was a bit random. This all neither here nor there yet. Much work to do! I had to compress it a bit to get under 100 mb. #GlobalAntiquity #GlobalDH gaerhf.org

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Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social · 4d

📢 New SCS Blog Post

Amy Norgard and Joshua Nudell -- in the first part of a two-part series -- explore the deep roots of our thinking about the nature of human relationships with artifical companions, stretching from Hollywood to Ovid and back again.

Great reflections on classical reception here!

SCS Blog: Part 1 of 2: Pygmalion in the Age of AI Companions | Society for Classical Studies

www.classicalstudies.org

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