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Samuel Oer de Almeida
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Archaeologist. Father of 2. Doctoral student researching cities of Roman Asia Minor @unituebingen.bsky.social. Culture | History | Architecture | Urbanism | Numismatics | Epigraphy.
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Samuel Oer de Almeida @samueloer.bsky.social · Jan 28
I am thrilled to announce that my monograph on the coinage of Tralleis in the Roman imperial period has just been published! It is available in print and can also be downloaded for free here: dx.doi.org/10.15496/pub.... #AsiaMinor #numismatics #archaeology #AncientBluesky
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Delighted that from January 2026 all research articles published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology @cambup-archaeology.cambridge.org will be Open Access

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Cambridge University Press
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November 12, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I am pleased to announce that John Penniman, Emanuel Fiano, and I are launching a new book series for the study of religion in late antiquity with Fordham University Press. If you have a book-in-progress looking for a home, please reach out to discuss your project!
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November 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire

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‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
Nature - A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
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November 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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chironweb.bsky.social
Letter of Roman Emperor Caracalla Discovered in the Walls of a 1950s House in Türkiye
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Letter of Roman Emperor Caracalla Discovered in the Walls of a 1950s House in Türkiye - Anatolian Archaeology
Stones in a 1950s house near Takina, Burdur, were found to bear a Roman imperial letter from Emperor Caracalla...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Los arqueólogos confirman el hallazgo de un circo romano en Álava
La instalación, de unos 270 metros de largo en el yacimiento de Iruña-Veleia, se descubrió a través de fotografías aéreas y su existencia ha sido confirmada tras realizar catas arqueológicas
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November 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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📢 Call for Applications!
The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027.

📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026
📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026
👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0

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A poster calling for application for Heinz Heinen Fellowships for the next academic year 2026/2027 -The deadline is on January 10, 2026
October 3, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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An extraordinary discovery was made in Ibiza: a 30-centimeter wooden sculpture representing Hercules. Considering the scarcity of wooden sculptures preserved from the Roman era, this discovery is truly remarkable.
The figure was found in a Roman well that was later reused as a refuse pit. 🧵1/2

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Two views of a damaged wooden human-shaped sculpture shown from the front and back. The figure is missing parts of its arms and legs, with a cracked and worn surface, and is placed beside a black, red, and white measuring scale for size reference.
November 2, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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antiquipop.bsky.social
Eugesta, online meeting | Modern Masculinities and Classical Reception
🏺 Organized by Alastair Blanshard, Filippo Carlà-Uhink and Anna Chiara Corradino
📆 6-7 November 2025.
Program: eugesta-recherche.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/us...
Abstracts : eugesta-recherche.univ-lille.fr/fileadmin/us...
October 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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leedsclassics.bsky.social
Call for Papers: RAC/TRAC 2026 - Water Cultures Beyond Roman Italy

Our own Dr Henry Clarke and Dr Giacomo Savani are organising a panel on Water Cultures Beyond Roman Italy at the next joined Roman Archaeology and Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference in Aarhus, Denmark, in May 2026...
October 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Stip: PhD scholarship "Ancient Civilizations" (Univ. Basel)

https://www.hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-157984

Basel, 01.04.2026-31.03.2027, Deaprtement of Ancient Civilisation, University of Basel, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.11.2025
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October 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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alisonfisk.bsky.social
The Royal Game of Ur is the world’s oldest playable boardgame!

Played by Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago!

It is a two-player race game, the rules of which have been deciphered from a cuneiform tablet.

Game from the Royal Cemetery of Ur. 📷 British Museum

#Archaeology
British Museum photo showing a two-player board game with gaming counters known as the Royal Game of Ur. Dated c. 2,500 BC. The game board is composed of a hollow box made of wood adorned with shell plaques. There is a drawer at one end for storing game pieces and dice. The top of the board is covered with twenty square-shaped off-white shell plaques, each bordered with dark-blue lapis lazuli. The shell squares are intricately decorated with blue inlaid patterns including dots inside circles and eye-shapes. Five squares are inlaid with flower-shaped rosettes with red limestone and blue lapis lazuli petals. The game board is roughly rectangular in shape. Viewed from above in the photo, on the left side of the board is a block of 12 squares made up of 4 across by 3 down. On the right side of the board is a block of 6 squares made up of 2 across by 3 down. The two blocks are joined by two squares extending between the second square down on the end row of the left block and the second square down on the first row of the second block. Dimensions H: 2.40 cm, L: 30.10 cm, W: 11 cm, (W 5.70 cm at narrowest part) Beneath the board are 14 disc-shaped gaming counters. On the left are 7 white pieces, inlaid with 5 spots of blue lapis lazuli. On the right are 7 black pieces inlaid with five white spots. Between the game pieces are three tetrahedron-shaped dice. L to R: Dark blue, brown, cream.
October 9, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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A stunning head of Medusa, the mythical creature whose sight turns everyone to stone. Medusa’s head was a popular motif used to ward off any evil.
The #Roman bronze fitting was found in Xanten, dating 1st century AD

On display at Römermuseum Xanten.

📷 me

🏺#archaeology
A detailed bronze sculpture of a face with wide eyes and flowing, wavy hair radiating outward resembling snakes, displayed in a glass case under museum lighting.
October 7, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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#MosaicMonday - Mosaic panels from the elaborate mosaic floor in the 8th-century AD Church of St. Stephen in Umm al-Rasas (Jordan) depicting cities near the Jordan River. Esbounta (Hesban), Askalon (Ashkelon), Eleutheropolis (Beit Guvrin), Philadelphia (Amman).
Esbounta (Hesban) Askalon (Ashkelon) Eleutheropolis (Beit Guvrin) Philadelphia (Amman)
October 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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partialhistorians.bsky.social
Hector for #MosaicMonday?

Very little is known about this mosaic including the provenance, but the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna offers a tentative date of C1st–C2nd CE and the tantalising hint that this may be part of a Trojan War cycle depicting Hector.

#AncientRome #AncientGreece #TrojanWar
Mosaic depicts five warriors. The left-most figure appears to be able to throw a javelin with his shield raised in his other hand. He is seemingly watched by three others who stand ready but not about to throw anything. A fifth figure can be seen about to take action though the nature of the action is not clear.
October 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Warsaw Late Antique Seminar. The programme for Winter Semester is ready. Take a look!
More on the seminar's website...
September 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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antike-kolleg.bsky.social
Im Winter veranstaltet die Professur Geschichte des Altertums an der Universität Potsdam gemeinsam mit dem Brandenburgischen Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologisches Landesmuseum die Reihe "Archäologien der Gewalt". Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen!

www.uni-potsdam.de/de/hi-altert...
September 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Wir gratulieren ganz herzlich den frisch gekürten Gewinner:innen des Peter-Haber-Preis für digitale Geechichte:
🥇Ann Lauren Osthof & Jenny Gabel
🥈Fernanda Alvares Freire
🥉Philipp Scheinert
Hier geht es zu den Postern der Shortlist ==> […]

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die drei Preisträger:innen mit ihren Urkunden, von links nach rechts Philipp Scheinert, Ann Lauren Osthof und Fernanda Alvares Freire
September 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Only one day to the TRAC conference DEADLINE. Send your abstracts by September 15. #Archaeology #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋
ullamr.bsky.social Ulla Rajala @ullamr.bsky.social · Sep 10
We have got extra abstracts so we aim at a double session in the TRAC conference! Session 6, 'What do monuments stand for? The materiality of Roman architecture'. Send your abstract to ulla.rajala(a)antiken.su.se by September 15. See www.trac.org.uk/trac-tida-20... #AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋 #Archaeology
TRAC-TiDA 2025
We are pleased to announce that the The 33rd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference, TRAC-TiDA 2025 will be held between 22nd and 24th October 2025 in an online format through the Gather Town pla…
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September 14, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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PostDoc-position in Classical / Roman Archaeology
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PostDoc-position in Classical / Roman Archaeology
The Chair of Classical Archaeology / Institute of Archaeological Sciences seeks to fill in a PostDoc-position in Classical/Roman Archaeology.
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September 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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partialhistorians.bsky.social
🌱Spring🌿

Today was the first real sign of spring in Sydney with a beautifully warm 29 degree sunny day. We’re celebrating with this wonderfully detailed mosaic from the The Late Antique Roman villa at La Olmeda (Pedrosa de la Vega, Spain).

#MosaicMonday #AncientRome
The mosaic depicts a personification of Spring surrounded by lush foliage, vessels, and ducks. The figure of Spring is veiled and appears to emerge from the plant life.
September 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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#MosaicMonday - Mosaic of incredible intricacy from the Roman Villa at Noheda: ca. 4th Century AD. A doubtless wealthy couple attend a pantomime performance, complete with a bellows-operated organ! #Archaeology #Art 🏺

Image: Villa Romana de Noheda. Link - cultura.castillalamancha.es/patrimonio/y...
September 8, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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🚨 Les #Annales recrutent un éditeur/une éditrice bilingue anglais-français 🚨

L'offre d'emploi est à retrouver ici
👉 recrutement.ehess.fr/offre-emploi...

Poste à pourvoir à partir du 1er novembre 2025
⚠️ Candidatures à envoyer avant le 8 octobre 2025
EHESS - recruitment area
Niveau de recrutement : Ingénieur d’études (Catégorie A)
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September 8, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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Don't diss this fish*

(*mammal actually)

A Dolphin with Attitude (and a large trident) 🐬🔱

Detail from a late 2nd century AD #Roman mosaic excavated by John Turtle Wood in the Sanctuary of Artemis #Ephesus in 1872

© The Trustees of the British Museum 1872,0803.72

#MosaicMonday #GrumpyDolphin
Mosaic image of a large tailed dolphin holding a trident in its mouth, swimming above the curling, eel-like tail of a triton
September 8, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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For #ReliefWednesday a #Roman representation of everyday life: A relief from #Ostia, depicting a vegetable and flower vendor behind a stall, displaying a range of products on the table.

Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD

📷Archaeological Museum Ostia

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A stone relief witha market stall, depicting a person in a draped garment standing behind the stall, surrounded by baskets and bundles of goods. The figure raises one hand in a gesture, while in front and to the sides are carved representations of various vegetables, baskets with flowers. Below the stall, a large rectangular basket with a woven pattern is set between two trestle supports.
August 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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No cover image yet, but look what's coming from CUP 🤓

Veiling in the Late Antique World | Cambridge University Press & Assessment share.google/LTK0QdIDGuWF...
August 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM