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Dr Emlyn Dodd
@emlynkd.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer @ics.bsky.social, Uni of London
Former A/Director, British School at Rome
Archaeologist 🏺 Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️
FSA FRHistS FHEA.
🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
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Great evening speaking to 125 people at the British School at Athens fundraising event! My lecture on all things #Ancient #Greek #wine was accompanied by a fascinating talk and tasting of modern Greek wines by Alix Robinson 🍷🍇 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky
Person standing on stage behind a lectern in a large hall, with a screen to their left and a seated audience Person standing on stage with a screen and images of Greek wine preparation equipment, and an audience in the foreground.
November 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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New fieldwork this week on Paros, #Greece! 🏺 🏛️

Ground-Penetrating Radar survey adjacent to excavations at #Hellenistic and #Roman houses and a sculpture workshop. 3D modelling of structural remains will also tie in with subsurface features captured by radar. /1
Two people in an excavation trench with walls visible. Houses behind and hills in the distance. Two people standing at a ground penetrating radar machine on a grid and grassy field Three people at a table with a ground penetrating radar machine in the foreground and excavation area behind. An open excavation area with walls visible and mountains in the background.
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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❗️Our recent work around the #ancient tower at Palaiopyrgos (Paros) is published in JAS Reports 🎉 🏺

We used multi-method #survey & #geophysical prospection to better understand landscapes of #agriculture and production in the rural #Cyclades.

READ OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
Aerial photo of ruins of ancient tower surrounded by dry agricultural fields. A dirt road runs across the image. A few clouds in the sky at back, and sea visible in distance.
September 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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The second explores how we can think about Roman #archaeological and #historical themes using the concept of glocalization. Case studies look at architecture, construction, agriculture, trade, iconography, art and social and economic connectivity across several regions of the Roman Mediterranean. /3
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September 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The first is a monumental 650pp new state of the field for viticulture & winemaking across the Roman world (including stretches into Central Asia!). Lots of new data and interpretation over 31 chapters, incl production facilities, vineyard traces, storage, transport, innovation & economies /2
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September 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Somehow managed to have not one, but TWO books published this month! 🎉 Thrilled to see these out:

👉 Vine-growing and Winemaking in the #Roman World (w/ @divali.bsky.social, M.S. Busana)

👉 Between Global and Local: Glocal Refractions in Roman Material Culture and Society (w/ R. Montoya González)
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Book cover with yellow and dark blue background, and mosaic depicting people treading grapes to make wine at centre Book cover with red background and late antique map across centre, showing Rome with surrounding settlements and roadways.
September 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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🚨 NEW ARTICLE 🚨

We were invited to write for Current Opinion in Food Sciences to review major advancements in #ancient #wine research and the big research questions these methods are helping us to understand 🍷 🏺 w/ @divali.bsky.social

Read open access here 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
Screenshot of the first page of a journal article in Current Opinion in Food Sciences, entitled Advancement and innovation in ancient wine research
July 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Extremely productive excavation season at Falerii Novi once again! Some very helpful material coming from the hard work of our @ics.bsky.social @bsrome.bsky.social team 🙌 🏺 #Classicsbluesky
A hand holding decorated sherds of black gloss Roman pottery with other ceramic sherds in the background. An ancient terracotta loom weight on a green plastic tray with two more behind held by a person. An excavated ancient stone wall faced in plaster with incised decoration. Soil in front and behind. A hand holding an excavated black gloss ceramic cup with plastic sheets and soil in the background.
June 26, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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A real privilege giving the Australian Archaeological Institute’s annual lecture in #Athens 🏺 🏛️

Wonderful packed-out audience and great discussions following recent work on Paros and a decade of thinking about #ancient #wine and #oil in the Cyclades 🍇🍷
A person standing at a lectern in front of a seated audience, with a PowerPoint projection to the left showing a coastal landscape on Paros.
May 5, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Paperback publication day for Methods in Ancient Wine Archaeology with @divali.bsky.social 🎉🎉 only a year after hardcover! 🏺 🍇🍷

Still in full colour throughout and at the bargain price of £22: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/methods-i...
Two books laying on their side with another upright on top. A brown wooden bench and white tiles behind. Holding open a book showing two pages. On the right, text and images of ancient grape seeds. On the left, archaeological plans and images of excavation. An open book showing two pages. Text on the left; text and an image above of a tree with a ladder and person cultivating grapevines on the right.
May 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Back staying with one of my favourite balconies in the world at the Australian Archaeological Institute 🙏 🏛️ so many PhD and Postdoc memories here, and now giving the AAIA Annual Lecture 🏺 #ClassicsBluesky
A view looking from an apartment balcony in Athens up a street surrounded by apartment buildings towards the Acropolis with the Parthenon above.
April 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Fantastically productive morning with colleagues working on wine-related material at the British Museum 🍇🍷 🏺 #Classicsbluesky

(so-called) psykters galore!
Ancient ceramic vessel with black painted figures sitting on a purple fabric tray and with desks in the background. Ancient ceramic vessel with red-figure decoration around its body, sitting on a blue fabric tray on a desk.
April 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Looking forward to being back in #Athens to give the Australian Archaeological Institute’s annual lecture 🏛️🏺

I’ll be talking about this stunning place among others in ‘Island towers and agricultural landscapes: #ancient #wine & olive oil production in the #Cyclades’ 🍇🍷
7pm, 29 April
The ruins of an ancient circular tower in green fields on Amorgos with sloping hills to the left, blue sky and the sea in the distance
April 8, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Many thanks to Prof.ssa Spagnoli for kindly inviting myself and @stephenkay.bsky.social to talk about Falerii Novi to doctoral researchers and colleagues at the University of Naples Federico II #Archaeology & #Art #History seminar 🏺

cc. @ics.bsky.social @bsrome.bsky.social #Ancientbluesky
A poster advertising a doctoral seminar on Falerii Novi and Eraclea Minoa at the University of Naples Federico II. Various text boxes and project and University logos on a light green background.
February 19, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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As their final research output, one of my students last term constructed an #ancient screw press for #wine or #oil production 🤯 Entirely from scratch & drawing from a rigorous body of #archaeological and literary evidence. THIS is why I encourage creative & critical outputs for coursework! 👏 🏺
A wooden direct-pressure screw press inspired by evidence from antiquity with a stone press bed and circular channel. A metal pole leans up against the left side.
February 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Looking forward to giving the University of Manchester #archaeology seminar tomorrow on the ‘sights and sites of ancient winemaking’ 🍇🍷 🏺 #Ancientbluesky

📷 #mosaic depicting grape treading, imperial baths, Minturnae, Italy.
Picture of a black and white mosaic depicting three winged cherubs treading grapes in a brick basin with a fourth at left pouring grapes in, and two dolia underneath collecting grape juice. Grapevines weave and surround the central image.
February 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Absolutely *thrilled* to advertise a fully funded PhD studentship WITH stipend thanks to generous London Arts & Humanities AHRC funding! 🎉 🏺 🗃️

You’ll be based at @ics.bsky.social in partnership w/ @bsrome.bsky.social researching the surrounding funerary landscape of Falerii Novi
An aerial image of the ancient town of Falerii Novi with wall circuit visible under a tree line, ancient gate in foreground, and a road leading into the site to a church and farmstead. Surrounded by agricultural fields and a mountain in the distance.
December 5, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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That time of year again at the @ics.bsky.social! 🎄 🏺 📕📗 🗃️
#Ancientbluesky #Classics
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December 4, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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Beautiful collection of funerary stelae, some inscribed & still painted, from the #Phoenician settlement on Motya (Mozia), #Sicily, 8th-4th c. BCE.
Many from the ‘tophet’ - a possible sanctuary with field of urns, stelae and cremated remains of children 🏺
A collection of different size and shape ancient stone stelae in a museum display with a tile floor in the background and white edging. Rows of ancient stone stelae on three different shelf levels with white background in a museum.
November 27, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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Triclinia in the vineyard itself, a shopfront and a location next to the amphitheatre suggest that this owner had a thriving business selling wine on a local scale to patrons of games and passers by. 5/5

(photo: Mastroberardino). Ancientbluesky
An oblique aerial image of a vineyard at Pompeii with people walking through it to harvest grapes and
November 18, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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In the room next door is the press - destroyed in the eruption, but beautifully reconstructed as a lever and winch type (nb. it could also have functioned with a screw and weightstone). 4/5
A reconstructed wooden Roman wine press with a lever and winch mechanism in a room at Pompeii A side view of a Roman reconstructed lever and winch press for wine with the wooden basket for grapes in middle, inside a room at Pompeii
November 18, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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Some amazing details have been preserved: plastered channels from the press room into the cellar; small lead pipes leading through walls and into each jar; signs of repair and reuse via lead clamps on dolia; and stamps indicating the workshops and makers of the jars. 3/5
An overhead shot of two ceramic dolia buried in the ground with a plastered channel alongside and a wall at left A closeup of a dolium with its rim missing and a channel to convey grape must behind A closeup of a dolium rim with a lead repair clamp in the foreground A closeup of a dolium rim with a makers stamp on it at top
November 18, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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The vineyard entrance leads immediately into the small cellar (cella vinaria), with 10 ceramic dolia buried in the ground to keep a stable, cool fermentation and storage environment.
Even the specific ‘strawberry’ shape of dolia helps must circulate & aids fermentation. 2/5
10 ceramic dolia buried in the floor of a room with a doorway at rear leading out to a vineyard
November 18, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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The #Pompeii ‘Foro Boario’ vineyard opposite the amphitheatre is beautiful, but less known is the #Roman winemaking facility from 79 CE hidden in a small building at the back corner! 🏺 🗃️

Almost always closed to the public, here’s a glimpse… 🧵 1/5
A vineyard at Pompeii inside a walled garden with four tall pine trees in the foreground and Mt Vesuvius in the background. Reconstructed ancient Roman lever and winch press for grapes to make wine in an ancient building. An ancient Roman cellar for wine in a small room with 10 buried dolia and a doorway at rear leading out to the vineyard.
November 18, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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You might go to #Assisi for St Francis or Giotto, but what about the UNDERGROUND #Roman forum! 🏺 🗃️

Sitting right beneath your feet as you cross the main piazza, it has tabernae, the speaker’s tribunal, and of course 1st c. BCE temple to Minerva (or Hercules).
A photo of the main piazza in Assisi with the facade of a Roman temple at left surrounded by other buildings and people walking across the stone pavement. A photo of an underground walkway and archaeological site of the ancient forum at Assisi. A tv screen on the wall at right and elevated path lead down to the background.
November 16, 2024 at 7:35 AM