Jane Sancinito
@janesancinito.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Ancient History at UMass Lowell. Research: Roman merchants, ancient numismatics, greed, stereotypes. Self: embroidery, tea, long walks, and ice hockey.
Author of: https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Reputation-of-the-Roman-Merchant
Author of: https://press.umich.edu/Books/T/The-Reputation-of-the-Roman-Merchant
Semesterly reminder that teaching is actually moderate aerobic exercise.
September 3, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Semesterly reminder that teaching is actually moderate aerobic exercise.
Adding another owl from Smyrna!
August 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Adding another owl from Smyrna!
#EpigraphyTuesday A nice, old law from the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
July 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
#EpigraphyTuesday A nice, old law from the Istanbul Archaeological Museum.
Can I add a different kind of cock for #phallusthursday? We don’t have an animal day, do we? Anyway, have some cupids fighting roosters from the National Archaeological Museum, Istanbul. No animals were harmed in the taking of the photo… no promises about the ancient models, sadly ☹️
June 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Can I add a different kind of cock for #phallusthursday? We don’t have an animal day, do we? Anyway, have some cupids fighting roosters from the National Archaeological Museum, Istanbul. No animals were harmed in the taking of the photo… no promises about the ancient models, sadly ☹️
So many new photos from my recent trip to Italy, so I can participate in #mosaicmonday for a change! Here's a middling shot of the boar from House of Vesbinus (VIII. 2. 26).
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
So many new photos from my recent trip to Italy, so I can participate in #mosaicmonday for a change! Here's a middling shot of the boar from House of Vesbinus (VIII. 2. 26).
#AncientBluesky, can anyone interpret the right side of this image? What’s sticking up out of the crates(?) or baskets(?)? Also, is that a bag at top left?
February 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
#AncientBluesky, can anyone interpret the right side of this image? What’s sticking up out of the crates(?) or baskets(?)? Also, is that a bag at top left?
Lots of terrible going on (nationally and far too close to home), but a #tinyjoy is getting to see Peter Pan (the first musical I ever encountered) for the first time in person!
January 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Lots of terrible going on (nationally and far too close to home), but a #tinyjoy is getting to see Peter Pan (the first musical I ever encountered) for the first time in person!
Also, this review is *chefs kiss*
January 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Also, this review is *chefs kiss*
New article alert! Interested in provincial unrest in the third century CE? I did (some of) the coin work so you don’t have to!
January 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
New article alert! Interested in provincial unrest in the third century CE? I did (some of) the coin work so you don’t have to!
Getting to see my book on sale will definitely be a highlight of 2025. Thanks, as ever, to @bauerle.bsky.social.
January 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Getting to see my book on sale will definitely be a highlight of 2025. Thanks, as ever, to @bauerle.bsky.social.
World History this semester is just… unpredictable chaos. I spent days discussing the Yuan Dynasty’s social structure and artistic changes, and did a deep dive on Kublai Khan. Student retained: “the empresses wore gugu hats.”
December 10, 2024 at 6:40 PM
World History this semester is just… unpredictable chaos. I spent days discussing the Yuan Dynasty’s social structure and artistic changes, and did a deep dive on Kublai Khan. Student retained: “the empresses wore gugu hats.”
UML’s history club has its annual cookie party tomorrow, so historical baking is taking place... or am I baking history? I don’t know. The sugar rush has already kicked in.
December 3, 2024 at 10:36 PM
UML’s history club has its annual cookie party tomorrow, so historical baking is taking place... or am I baking history? I don’t know. The sugar rush has already kicked in.
Apparently the UML hockey team appreciates faculty and staff, so I get free tickets and chicken tenders.
November 23, 2024 at 1:57 AM
Apparently the UML hockey team appreciates faculty and staff, so I get free tickets and chicken tenders.
Deeply grateful to Geoffrey Nathan for the detailed and kind review of Reputation in Studies in Late Antiquity! online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article-...
November 22, 2024 at 4:50 PM
Deeply grateful to Geoffrey Nathan for the detailed and kind review of Reputation in Studies in Late Antiquity! online.ucpress.edu/SLA/article-...
Had a lovely day digging through the coins of Dura Europos at Yale. As ever, weird and unexpected things lurk in the collections!
November 13, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Had a lovely day digging through the coins of Dura Europos at Yale. As ever, weird and unexpected things lurk in the collections!
Excellent set and costume design, talented cast… a mess of a plot dependent on 90s/00s progressivism and accordingly unsatisfying. C+/B-
November 11, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Excellent set and costume design, talented cast… a mess of a plot dependent on 90s/00s progressivism and accordingly unsatisfying. C+/B-
This was the label and I have one more image…
October 29, 2024 at 9:00 PM
This was the label and I have one more image…
Can anyone help me out with the text here? It’s Treatise on the Vices (late 14th C), f.8 - BL Add MS 27695. I’m really just trying to figure out if the scenes are explicitly labeled as depictions of greed. I’m not seeing avaritia or cupiditas or any of my other keywords…
July 29, 2024 at 2:22 PM
Can anyone help me out with the text here? It’s Treatise on the Vices (late 14th C), f.8 - BL Add MS 27695. I’m really just trying to figure out if the scenes are explicitly labeled as depictions of greed. I’m not seeing avaritia or cupiditas or any of my other keywords…
I’m going through images today in preparation for a fall talk, and I have rediscovered my love for these Gallic bears interrupting people’ baths (Narbonne). This was almost certainly a trained-bear act, but I love the idea that you just couldn’t get a quiet bath in Roman Gaul because BEARS.
July 25, 2024 at 4:13 PM
I’m going through images today in preparation for a fall talk, and I have rediscovered my love for these Gallic bears interrupting people’ baths (Narbonne). This was almost certainly a trained-bear act, but I love the idea that you just couldn’t get a quiet bath in Roman Gaul because BEARS.
At Brandeis for the first time today for the Classical Association of Massachusetts’ spring meeting, finding it pleasant, quiet, occasionally treacherous in the morning damp, but I’m thoroughly distracted by the “starship” Grubhub delivery bots. Are these at other campuses, or just here?
May 1, 2024 at 12:40 PM
At Brandeis for the first time today for the Classical Association of Massachusetts’ spring meeting, finding it pleasant, quiet, occasionally treacherous in the morning damp, but I’m thoroughly distracted by the “starship” Grubhub delivery bots. Are these at other campuses, or just here?
The hour approaches!
March 15, 2024 at 1:46 PM
The hour approaches!
New year, new Broadway in Boston series. Moulin Rouge looks likely to be very stylish.
January 20, 2024 at 6:34 PM
New year, new Broadway in Boston series. Moulin Rouge looks likely to be very stylish.
January 3, 2024 at 8:20 PM