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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.

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Andrew Meadows

@menetys.bsky.social

Hot off the press: CPI volume2

November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM

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Ethan Gruber

@ewg118.bsky.social

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...

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November 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM

Andrew Meadows

@menetys.bsky.social

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

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Sarah E. Bond

@sarahebond.bsky.social

The Princeton University numismatic collection integrated into the Nomisma.org Linked Open Data cloud, with almost new 3,600 coins! 💰 If you don’t know about the Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) project (my fav of all), with many 1000s of coins and types, check it out! numismatics.org/ocre/

RIC I (second edition) Augustus 513
Canonical URI: http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.1(2).aug.513

Examples of this type | Quantitative Analysis

Typological Description
Object Type: Coin
Date Range: 19 BCE–18 BCE
Denomination: Aureus
Manufacture: Struck
Material: Gold
Authority

Authority: Augustus
Dynasty: Julio-Claudian Dynasty
State: Roman Empire
Geographic

Mint: Pergamum
Region: Asia--Asia--Mysia
Obverse

Legend: AVGVSTVS
Type: Head of Augustus, bare, left
Portrait: Augustus
Reverse

Legend: ARMENIA CAPTA
Type: Sphinx seated right

October 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM

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Central Bylines

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Minority representation on TV causes outrage

Brilliant from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

October 29, 2025 at 11:20 PM

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Mark Hamill

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

I have a very bad feeling about this...

October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM

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Sebastian Heath

@sebhth.bsky.social

Scandanavian/Icelandic GAERHF thread.

Global Approaches to Early Representations of the Human Figure @gaerhf-bot.bsky.social · Oct 16

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

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Alison Fisk

@alisonfisk.bsky.social

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

My photo shows a pile of shiny Roman gold coins below five fragments from a grey pot

October 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM

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Classics at Leeds

@leedsclassics.bsky.social

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!

Classics at Leeds @leedsclassics.bsky.social · Sep 5

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!

October 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM