Sarah E. Bond
@sarahebond.bsky.social
Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Pinned
Nearly Intact Roman Shipwreck Rests Just Six Feet Beneath Mallorca’s Waters
Discovered in 2019, the 1,700-year-old merchant ship reveals details about early Christian trade.
hyperallergic.com
My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...
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My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...
Nearly Intact Roman Shipwreck Rests Just Six Feet Beneath Mallorca’s Waters
Discovered in 2019, the 1,700-year-old merchant ship reveals details about early Christian trade.
hyperallergic.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...
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Babe wake up old amphorae dropped
My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...
Nearly Intact Roman Shipwreck Rests Just Six Feet Beneath Mallorca’s Waters
Discovered in 2019, the 1,700-year-old merchant ship reveals details about early Christian trade.
hyperallergic.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Babe wake up old amphorae dropped
My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...
Nearly Intact Roman Shipwreck Rests Just Six Feet Beneath Mallorca’s Waters
Discovered in 2019, the 1,700-year-old merchant ship reveals details about early Christian trade.
hyperallergic.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...
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There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead:
A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹
#FindsFriday
Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...
A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹
#FindsFriday
Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...
November 15, 2024 at 6:41 PM
There’s something extraordinary about this otherwise pretty standard Late Bronze Age axehead:
A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹
#FindsFriday
Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...
A human fingerprint. A real, visible and tangible connection to someone from 3000 years ago. If that doesn’t give you goosebumps, idk what will. 🥹
#FindsFriday
Link to record: finds.org.uk/database/art...
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If you are thinking, "wow, I wish a resource like this existed for office holders in the Roman Republic" - it does, albeit in book form, as T.R.S. Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1951, 1952, 1960) in two volumes, both hosted online: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/...
November 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
If you are thinking, "wow, I wish a resource like this existed for office holders in the Roman Republic" - it does, albeit in book form, as T.R.S. Broughton, Magistrates of the Roman Republic (1951, 1952, 1960) in two volumes, both hosted online: onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/...
Students & researchers have a tough time keeping the names of Roman emperors and elites straight. But we do have a database to help name and number each. It is called the Prospographia Imperii Romani (=PIR) and has 15061 persons, of which 1932 are women. Please use the database! pir.bbaw.de#/search
Prosopographia Imperii Romani
pir.bbaw.de
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Students & researchers have a tough time keeping the names of Roman emperors and elites straight. But we do have a database to help name and number each. It is called the Prospographia Imperii Romani (=PIR) and has 15061 persons, of which 1932 are women. Please use the database! pir.bbaw.de#/search
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[CALL FOR PAPERS] The NetSAP Workshops: "The ethical challenges of the study of ancient West Asia by the West"
📆 11-12 June 2026
📌 Liège University (Belgium)
▶️ Deadline for abstracts: November, 28th
📆 11-12 June 2026
📌 Liège University (Belgium)
▶️ Deadline for abstracts: November, 28th
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
[CALL FOR PAPERS] The NetSAP Workshops: "The ethical challenges of the study of ancient West Asia by the West"
📆 11-12 June 2026
📌 Liège University (Belgium)
▶️ Deadline for abstracts: November, 28th
📆 11-12 June 2026
📌 Liège University (Belgium)
▶️ Deadline for abstracts: November, 28th
Told my editor this morning that I almost threw up in a sink while attempting to recreate garum, but the truth is I also threw up learning how to tan Roman leather using urine and feces to clean the hides.
Reconstructive archaeology: not for those with weak stomachs.
Reconstructive archaeology: not for those with weak stomachs.
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Told my editor this morning that I almost threw up in a sink while attempting to recreate garum, but the truth is I also threw up learning how to tan Roman leather using urine and feces to clean the hides.
Reconstructive archaeology: not for those with weak stomachs.
Reconstructive archaeology: not for those with weak stomachs.
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I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
The idea of the closet as a dedicated space for clothes etc is relatively modern architecture. Most in antiquity had cupboards & what we would call an armoire. At Herculaneum, the have now fully restored wooden cabinet carbonized in the eruption 🌋 of 79 CE. ercolano.cultura.gov.it/il-ritorno-d...
Il ritorno della credenza di Ercolano: un viaggio nel tempo tra legno e memoria
ercolano.cultura.gov.it
November 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The idea of the closet as a dedicated space for clothes etc is relatively modern architecture. Most in antiquity had cupboards & what we would call an armoire. At Herculaneum, the have now fully restored wooden cabinet carbonized in the eruption 🌋 of 79 CE. ercolano.cultura.gov.it/il-ritorno-d...
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So pleased to have a History Matters article in the latest amazing issue of @historytoday.com on Oxford’s medieval scribes, beer brewing, and more! ✍️🍻🎉
October 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
So pleased to have a History Matters article in the latest amazing issue of @historytoday.com on Oxford’s medieval scribes, beer brewing, and more! ✍️🍻🎉
One of the things you learn as an ancient historian is that when you sit next to a white guy on a plane and they ask you what you do, you are going to to need to tell them that you are an accountant.
November 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
One of the things you learn as an ancient historian is that when you sit next to a white guy on a plane and they ask you what you do, you are going to to need to tell them that you are an accountant.
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.
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'If you want to pry into other people’s lives, you should not spy on your neighbour, but instead turn to history.'
Helen Morales: Mark Antony’s wife was a political player in her own right
Helen Morales: Mark Antony’s wife was a political player in her own right
Mark Antony’s wife was a political player in her own right
www.the-tls.com
August 4, 2025 at 10:50 PM
'If you want to pry into other people’s lives, you should not spy on your neighbour, but instead turn to history.'
Helen Morales: Mark Antony’s wife was a political player in her own right
Helen Morales: Mark Antony’s wife was a political player in her own right
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Donald Trump has asked his employees on the Supreme Court to overrule lower court orders demanding that he fulfill his duties to feed Americans who are due SNAP benefits
AND
He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.
AND
He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Donald Trump has asked his employees on the Supreme Court to overrule lower court orders demanding that he fulfill his duties to feed Americans who are due SNAP benefits
AND
He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.
AND
He's demanding that states which just rushed to fill the vacuum created by his cruelty "undo" that work.
Still the best sticker ever. By @artofmarza.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Still the best sticker ever. By @artofmarza.bsky.social
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The inimitable Ashley Howard talks about her new @uncpress.bsky.social book MIDWEST UNREST and her love of books generally in this feature from Iowa Now. Check out that bookish photo gallery! now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/10...
UI professor, first-time author Ashley Howard talks about books that inspire her
The history and African American Studies professor published her first book in June.
now.uiowa.edu
November 5, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The inimitable Ashley Howard talks about her new @uncpress.bsky.social book MIDWEST UNREST and her love of books generally in this feature from Iowa Now. Check out that bookish photo gallery! now.uiowa.edu/news/2025/10...
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shiny and new and all mine!
thanks to @emuehlbe.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social!
get yours (open access link!)
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
thanks to @emuehlbe.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social!
get yours (open access link!)
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
November 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
shiny and new and all mine!
thanks to @emuehlbe.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social!
get yours (open access link!)
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
thanks to @emuehlbe.bsky.social & @ucpress.bsky.social!
get yours (open access link!)
luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...
Ariadne Marketou and Alexandra Rodler have a new article on “Ochres as earth pigments in Hellenistic and Roman polychromy: State of the art and future directions on material origins and trade” in the JAS! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I do love a pigment trade article. 🎨 🖌️
November 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Ariadne Marketou and Alexandra Rodler have a new article on “Ochres as earth pigments in Hellenistic and Roman polychromy: State of the art and future directions on material origins and trade” in the JAS! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I do love a pigment trade article. 🎨 🖌️
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A woman ruined my workplace
By Haman
By Haman
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
A woman ruined my workplace
By Haman
By Haman
Communism: famously founded in the 11th century CE. 😬
November 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Communism: famously founded in the 11th century CE. 😬
Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman merchant vessel shipwreck from around ca. 320 CE near Mallorca. It was carrying olive oil, wine, and garum, “two leather shoes, a carpenter’s drill likely used for onboard repairs, and an oil lamp … Some amphorae, however, bear early Christian monograms.”
A 1,700-Year-Old Roman Merchant Ship Lies Just Two Meters Below the Surface off Mallorca’s Playa de Palma - Arkeonews
Conservation team examining amphorae recovered from the Ses Fontanelles Roman shipwreck near Playa de Palma, Mallorca
arkeonews.net
November 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Archaeologists have uncovered a Roman merchant vessel shipwreck from around ca. 320 CE near Mallorca. It was carrying olive oil, wine, and garum, “two leather shoes, a carpenter’s drill likely used for onboard repairs, and an oil lamp … Some amphorae, however, bear early Christian monograms.”
Since the "Replacement Theory" is back in the news, here is a short run-down on its history that I wrote for @hyperallergic.com—along with the pernicious quote of Cassius Dio uses by white supremacists to justify their beliefs.
hyperallergic.com/514034/the-o...
hyperallergic.com/514034/the-o...
The Origins of White Supremacists' Fear of Replacement
This fear of being replaced can be traced to the French far right, but racist fears regarding supposed White genocide, and invasion by varied ethnic groups, go back centuries.
hyperallergic.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Since the "Replacement Theory" is back in the news, here is a short run-down on its history that I wrote for @hyperallergic.com—along with the pernicious quote of Cassius Dio uses by white supremacists to justify their beliefs.
hyperallergic.com/514034/the-o...
hyperallergic.com/514034/the-o...
November 7, 83 CE: On a waxen tablet, Quintus Cassius Secundus, a soldier of the Twentieth Legion, writes that he owed Gaius Geminius Mansuetus, a soldier of the same legion, 100 denarii, "which [I will repay … date due and interest]." (Brit. 23. p146) romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions...
November 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
November 7, 83 CE: On a waxen tablet, Quintus Cassius Secundus, a soldier of the Twentieth Legion, writes that he owed Gaius Geminius Mansuetus, a soldier of the same legion, 100 denarii, "which [I will repay … date due and interest]." (Brit. 23. p146) romaninscriptionsofbritain.org/inscriptions...
Look 👀 This is what happens when you have far too much money, have read only the cliff notes of Greek myth, and should really just give the funds to people on SNAP.
America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues
With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.
www.bloomberg.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Look 👀 This is what happens when you have far too much money, have read only the cliff notes of Greek myth, and should really just give the funds to people on SNAP.