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Peter Stewart
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Professor of Ancient Art. Director of the Classical Art Research Centre at Oxford University @carcoxford.bsky.social. Chair of Trustees at The Brooking @thebrooking.bsky.social. Antiquity, modernism, arts.
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A Roman Antonine youth? No: stucco head of a Buddhist bodhisattva(?) from the Tapa Kalān site near Jalahabad, Afghanistan. Photo via the incredibly valuable Hadda Archéo Database haddaarcheodb.com/en/objet/tet...
January 6, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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Sad door in Portaferry, Co. Down
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December 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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A Gandharan Buddha head from Afghanistan presented to JFK in 1963 jfk.artifacts.archives.gov/objects/5114...
December 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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And of course if you do need to cite something you haven’t seen at all, as an unverified aid to the reader, there is the perfectly respectable “non vidi”.
December 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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The newly opened Colosseo-Fori Inperiali subway station houses a full museum's worth of finds discovered while digging under the city. Including this 4th c. CE gold glass fragment depicting the goddess Roma, which had been affixed to a wall in the ruins of an ancient military barracks. 🏺 1/

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Gilded glass fragment with the image of the goddess Roma, personification of the city of Rome. Discovered during construction of the Porta Metronia station, in ancient barracks destroyed during construction of the Aurelian Walls. She’s based on a depiction of an Amazon, with her bared breast, triple-plumed helmet, baltea (studded quiver belt across her chest), and pilus (javelin). The iconographic theme is already well-known, but it is the first and only representation found so far on gold glass. “Golden glass is already a very rare finding, but this has no comparison” according to preliminary findings, Simona Morretta, archaeologist of the special superintendency of Rome, explained to ANSA. “No golden glass with the personification of the city of Rome had ever been found before”. Gold glass was a glass-making technique in which a thin layer of decorated gold leaf, often a portrait, was sandwiched between two layers of transparent glass. The leaf was glued to one glass discs first, then the design created by scratching away tiny areas of gold like an etching. A second glass disc was then superimposed on top of the etched gold surface and fused to create the roundel of a vessel or a medallion.
December 17, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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💯 'Time is well overdue for international policy bodies to acknowledge the totality of evidence on the science of masks and masking and to show leadership in providing such messaging to policymakers, clinicians, and the public.' @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social et al
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Masks and respirators for prevention of respiratory infections: a state of the science review | Clinical Microbiology Reviews
SUMMARY This narrative review and meta-analysis summarizes a broad evidence base on the benefits—and also the practicalities, disbenefits, harms and personal, sociocultural and environmental impacts—o...
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December 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981
Illustration of eighties businessmen by an urban park in Central Milton Keynes
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Cataloguing the Hampi Vijayanagara archive @britishlibrary.bsky.social - this would be an interesting part-time job for the right person www.linkedin.com/posts/malini...
Job announcement: Cataloguer, Visual Arts at The British Library. I am delighted to announce that we are recruiting for a Cataloguer of Visual Arts at the British Library, to work on an archive of… |...
Job announcement: Cataloguer, Visual Arts at The British Library. I am delighted to announce that we are recruiting for a Cataloguer of Visual Arts at the British Library, to work on an archive of mo...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Training Officer
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Training Officer - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources
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December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Could be the opposite of course, but there are enough resonances with other 'Coptic' art to make Roman source more likely.
December 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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This late Roman silk fragment from Egypt, in @ (L), makes me think that the contemporary woollen tunic of Yingpan Man in the Tarim Basin is really of Roman origin (which I had rather doubted) - some remarkable similarities.

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December 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Late Roman box inlaid with ivory, from Egypt. @britishmuseum.bsky.social www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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I am reposting this without the 'adult content' 🙄
November 27, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Satyr and maenad on a c. 4th century AD Roman textile, tapestry weave wool on linen, presumably from Egypt. Cleveland Museum www.clevelandart.org/art/1975.6?u...
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This stone head with coronet was found on the site of Merton Priory, Surrey, in 1797. The diplomat and collector Sir William Hamilton FSA presented the head on behalf of the Priory’s landowner to the Society in 1802.
The Merton Head, carved stone head with coronet with traces of gilt.
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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It's a Flavian villa with mosaics, isn't it?

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November 27, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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"We can’s air-condition our way out the extreme heat crisis." #OxfordSmithSchool Radhika Khosla
The Global Cooling Watch 2025 report was launched during #COP30. It addresses the dual challenges of escalating extreme heat and the resultant rising global demand for cooling.
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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1884-1897 focus for this opportunity to edit and publish archival material re Working Ladies’ Guild
November 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Sounds rather like Spittlefield Lady in London, including the gold-threaded textile.
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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The Noheda mosaics give a realistically eerie impression of what performers in masks looked like.

[Photos here from historia.nationalgeographic.com.es/a/maravilla-... ]
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Villa Romana de Noheda
The discovery of the mosaics from the luxurious Roman villa of Noheda (4th century) has been one of the most relevant discoveries for archeology in recent years. The archaeological site is located 18 ...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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The truly remarkable 4th-century Roman mosaic at Noheda, Spain.

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November 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Tickets are now out for this exciting event! Free and open to all. Book your free tickets on Eventbrite. Akram Khan, MBE in conversation with Marcus Bell (UCL), co-organized with Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX) Friday, Dec 5, 2025, 14:30 Jaqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College Oxford.
Image of a poster with a picture of Akram Khan with his hands on his pockets looking at the camera with a background of a dance studio, with the writings: "Akram Khan, MBE in conversation with Marcus Bell (UCL), co-organized with Dance Scholarship Oxford (DANSOX) Friday, December 5, 2025 - 14:30 Jaqueline du Pre Music Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford"
November 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Of course, I can see why it might be strategically advantageous to tell Trump this, but I doubt if the ego-boost will ultimately outweigh whatever is binding him to Russia. At any rate, that’s not a journalist’s role.
November 23, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Extraordinary (from BBC). Can any journalist really think this is what's going on?!
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM