Fabulous Visigothic bronze belt buckles inlaid with cloisonné glass. AD 500s.

Which is your favourite?

From the Visigothic Necropolis of Duratón, near Segovia, Spain.
Casa del Sol Museum, Segovia
📷 by me

#Archaeology

Yesterday’s Metal & Premodernity class compared Roman constructions of “barbarians” to those of pop culture & heavy metal. We read passages from Tacitus’s Germania alongside Heidevolk’s song” Furor Teutonicus,” & then looked at receptions of Boudicca & the battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

Sphinx relief from the Archaeological Museum of Kavala, #Greece for #Halloween! 🎃

The Dafoe - Malkovitch crossover is inimitable!!

News from the Burmerange dig! #Merovingian

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For my first presentation after my #PhD defence, I participated in the XII Greek Byzantinists #Conference, which took place in Rethymnon, #Crete. In my talk, I examined the Gothic conflicts in the early #Byzantine Thrace!

Yesterday was the opening of our major special exhibition "Foreign neighbours - Rome and the Germanic people" in our branch museum Limesmuseum Aalen.
A highlight of the exhibition is the presentation of prestigious grave goods from Germanic burials unearthed in Kariv, Western Ukraine, in 2017. 🧵1/3

Like a scene from "Ben Hur": For #ReliefWednesday a terracotta relief depicting an accident at a chariot-race at the Circus Maximus.
The famous circus in #Rome can be recognised due to the seven movable dolphins on the central dividing barrier, the... 🧵1/2

🏺 #archaeology

An early medieval fibula (a decorative pin for fastening garments/a brooch) in the form of an eagle, made of gold and silver inlaid with garnets and lapis lazuli. It's part of the so-called Domagnano Hoard consisting of 21 pieces. They belonged to an Ostrogothic...🧵1/3

🏺 #archaeology

Thank you so much for your kind words and support! @giboutziopoulos.bsky.social

Successfully defended my doctoral thesis on the Byzantine Empire and the enemy tribes along the Danube frontier and the dioecesis of Thrace (4th-7th c.). Today was a good day! #PhD

And now attention, late antique people!

Today in Trier I was shown the Trier Ivory up close,

from the front and

- unseen before, at least by me-

from the back!

Note the strange markings, apparently by the craftsmen, and the hole for the elephant’s nerve reaching into the tusk

Historians will never be replaced by AI

OUP's Women in Antiquity is such a good idea - with recent additions on Balthild, Radegund and Theodora.
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Visited the Giustiniani Palace inside the Castle of #Chios for the temporary exhibition of excavation findings from the Kaloplytis stream area with the 4th c. #mosaic floor at its forefront.

A super-rare surviving record of 174 men swearing an oath to a Carolingian king, probably Louis II in 846.

Our new article is out in Speculum! @robin-f.bsky.social called it “ #isotopes for poets” it’s a fab ongoing interdisciplinary project on a late #Roman & #EarlyMedieval cemetery in Hampshire read more 🔗 https//doi.org/10.... @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgharchaeo.bsky.social #archsci

Visited the early Christian basilica of St. Isidore in #Chios. Built upon the remains of an earlier structure, it encloses the martyrium of the Saint and impressive 5th-6th c. #mosaic floors with geometric patterns. #Roman #Byzantine

Dragons in Caen! I repeat dragons in Caen! Superb graffiti! Last time I was at the castle, it was a building site. I can't wait to go back (possibly next month) @catrionacooper.bsky.social #medievalsky #castles #normans

In February 360, the emperor Julian was almost crowned with a piece of jewelry that his wife Helena wore "on her head or around her neck" (Amm. Marc. 20.4.17).
It's intriguing to think that it was similar to this late antique object that could be worn both as headband or as neckband. 1/

Belt buckles and brooches from the Visigothic, Ostrogothic and Merovingian Kingdoms are at the epicentre of Sam Fogg's current exhibition "Dark Ages?".
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A cute cat roaming through the Archaeological Museum of Kavala, #Greece. #Caturday