Andrew Meadows
@menetys.bsky.social
Director of Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents; Professor of Ancient History; Fellow in Ancient History, New College; Honorary Curator, Ashmolean Museum. Oxford.
The Call for Papers for the 13th annual Nomisma/ECFN meeting in Bari is now open. 15-18 Sept 2026. Come and join us! www.13ecfn-nomisma.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers – 13th Annual Meeting of the European Coin Find Network & Nomisma.org
www.13ecfn-nomisma.org
January 21, 2026 at 8:08 AM
The Call for Papers for the 13th annual Nomisma/ECFN meeting in Bari is now open. 15-18 Sept 2026. Come and join us! www.13ecfn-nomisma.org/call-for-pap...
The amphitheater at Cyzicus
January 4, 2026 at 2:49 PM
The amphitheater at Cyzicus
Tenedos, from Alexandria Troas
January 3, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Tenedos, from Alexandria Troas
Proceedings of the joint ECFN-Nomisma in Sofia now published: bulgnj.com/index.php/e-...
2025: Proceedings of the 10th Joint Meeting of ECFN and Nomisma.org & 2nd BulgNR TOGETHER International Conference Sofia, 19–23 June 2023, BulgNJ Suppl. vol.1 (ISBN 978-619-92562-8-2)
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January 3, 2026 at 6:11 AM
Proceedings of the joint ECFN-Nomisma in Sofia now published: bulgnj.com/index.php/e-...
Samothrace, seen from Aenus
January 2, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Samothrace, seen from Aenus
Selymbria for New Year’s Eve.
December 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Selymbria for New Year’s Eve.
The CHANGE project is in Istanbul next month, courtesy of the wonderful Pera Museum. Do join us: www.peramuseum.org/event/moneta...
Monetary CHANGE in Ancient Anatolia (630-30 BC)
CHANGE is an interdisciplinary project to research the monetary history of ancient Anatolia from the beginning of coinage in the 7th century to the absorption of the region by Rome circa 30 BC
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December 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The CHANGE project is in Istanbul next month, courtesy of the wonderful Pera Museum. Do join us: www.peramuseum.org/event/moneta...
More Egyptian goodness in the OSAD series. Just in time for Christmas….
December 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
More Egyptian goodness in the OSAD series. Just in time for Christmas….
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Interested in architecture on Roman Republican coins? All you have to do is keyword search. Using python natural language processing to reconcile descriptive concepts to Wikidata. These are results of temples, columns, altars, gates, etc. Expect more NLP results throughout our projects soon.
December 9, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Interested in architecture on Roman Republican coins? All you have to do is keyword search. Using python natural language processing to reconcile descriptive concepts to Wikidata. These are results of temples, columns, altars, gates, etc. Expect more NLP results throughout our projects soon.
Hot off the press: CPI volume2
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Hot off the press: CPI volume2
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Some 50,000 Roman Republican coins have been migrated into CollectiveAccess for Roman Republican Die Project, with some updates to bibliographic references, provenance, and integrating coin hoard URIs to improve various functionality: numishare.blogspot.com/2025/11/upda...
Updates to RRDP specimens
At long last, we have migrated the objects accessible in the SITNAM public database into a CollectiveAccess back-end. SITNAM was initially...
numishare.blogspot.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Some 50,000 Roman Republican coins have been migrated into CollectiveAccess for Roman Republican Die Project, with some updates to bibliographic references, provenance, and integrating coin hoard URIs to improve various functionality: numishare.blogspot.com/2025/11/upda...
Ancient history job in Oxford: www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/st...
Stipendiary Lecturer of Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) (12 Hours, fixed-term) - Oriel College
Oriel College is looking to recruit a Stipendiary Lecturer of Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) (12 Hours) for a 14 month (4 Terms) fixed term position to provide cover for leave
www.oriel.ox.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Ancient history job in Oxford: www.oriel.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/st...
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October 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I have a very bad feeling about this...
October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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Scandanavian/Icelandic GAERHF thread.
First go at getting some Scandinavian and Icelandic "Viking Period" figures into GAERHF. 1: Female Sword Bearer from Hårby. C. 800. gaerhf.org#female-sword... #ArtHistory #GlobalArtHistory
October 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Scandanavian/Icelandic GAERHF thread.
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Pot of gold!
Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum!
Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum!
Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
October 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Pot of gold!
Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum!
Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum!
Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me
#FindsFriday
#Archaeology
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A week today! - Our first research seminar of the year with Dr Simon Glenn on ‘The Bactrian Mirage: coins and history in Hellenistic Central Asia’ on 16 October, 17:15-18:30 UK time. More details in the thread below. Please note the change of on campus venue to Michael Sadler 1.01. All welcome!
Our research seminars resume soon with a talk from Dr Simon Glenn (British Museum/ Leeds) on ‘The Bactrian Mirage: coins and history in Hellenistic Central Asia’ on Thursday 16 October, 17:15-18:30 UK time (venue and online joining instructions below).
All very welcome to attend!
All very welcome to attend!
October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
A week today! - Our first research seminar of the year with Dr Simon Glenn on ‘The Bactrian Mirage: coins and history in Hellenistic Central Asia’ on 16 October, 17:15-18:30 UK time. More details in the thread below. Please note the change of on campus venue to Michael Sadler 1.01. All welcome!
Thanks to the fantastic work of the Warsaw team, Proceedings of Int Numismatic Congress are free to download here: Vol. I www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
Vol. II www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
vol. III www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
vol. IV www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
Vol. II www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
vol. III www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
vol. IV www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, 11–16.09.2022, Warsaw, Vol. i: Greek Numismatics | Warsaw Studies in Archaeology
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September 22, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Thanks to the fantastic work of the Warsaw team, Proceedings of Int Numismatic Congress are free to download here: Vol. I www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
Vol. II www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
vol. III www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
vol. IV www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
Vol. II www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
vol. III www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
vol. IV www.brepolsonline.net/action/showB...
Demetrias (small promontory in the centre) at sunset
September 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Demetrias (small promontory in the centre) at sunset
Evening in the Agora at Thasos
September 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Evening in the Agora at Thasos
Pangaion from Philippi
September 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Pangaion from Philippi
