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Sarah Krienen M.A.
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Classical archaeology M.A.
Cultural heritage protection, looting, antiquities crime. Goldsmith, sewist, historical clothing
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Let me impart some wisdom: If you can see only one more concert in your life, go see Skindred.
Is raggae metal from Wales a weird idea to you? Wrong! It's a great idea and they are absolutely phenomenal live.
Had the time of my life last night, cannot recommend highly enough.

Photo: my SIL
A purple lit stage with the band Skindred playing. The guitarist, a white man in black clothes with a long ginger beard, stands to the left. The drumset is in the background. The singer, a black man in his 50s, stands at the microphone, raising his left hand. He's wearing a black furry hat and a sparkly green jacket. The bassist can be seen faintly in the right background.
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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One and a half year old me on Crete. No lore, I just knew I had to be an archaeologist from a very very young age.

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A toddler in a red shirt, striped overalls and a red gingham headscarf grinning enthusiastically into the camera while sitting on an ancient frieze on the ground.
November 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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I usually don't cat post but today I have to. My sister's diabetic orange boy was found safe and sound after being missing for 3 weeks. I'm very relieved that the little cuddle bug is home.

Cat tax below.
An orange cat with big ears and a little would on the bridge of his nose, chilling on a grey blanket.
October 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Herculaneum today. I might like it more than Pompeii. Yes, Pompeii is larger and flashier but for some reason Herculaneum was more my thing. Absolutely love seeing traces of wood in the buildings and the furniture in the museum.
Some highlights:

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The name giving wall mosaic in the "House of Neptune and Amphitrite", depicting the god of the sea and his wife, surrounded by colourful floral and shell motifs. Black and white mosaic of a Triton with Dolphins from the women's baths in Herculaneum. A large preserved wooden door with bronze detailing from the fittingly called "house of the wooden door" in Herculaneum. A red mural in the "House of the bicentenary" in Herculaneum. The red is split into three panels by black floral bands. The two other panels contain one round image field with people's busts, the middle panel shows a larger rectangular scene with 2 people and cows.
September 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Today on the Naples vacation plan: Pompeii!
Apart from some public transport hickups I had the best day. Obvious highlights: The house of the Vetii, the house of the Faun, murals everywhere.
Less obvious highlights: The small things. Wheel ruts, pottery used as building material, cats.

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Painted decor of the house altar in the "House of the Vetii" in Pompeii. It depicts the a man in a toga with his head covered (probably the Genius of the family, flanked by 2 lares (protective house deities). The bottom of the images shows a large snake. The famous bronze Faun in the fittingly titled "House of the Faun" in Pompeii. The small statuette shows a dancing faun, positioned in the impluvium, the water basin of the atrium. Ridges in the stones of a Pompeian street, made by repeated cart traffic throughout the centuries. A black cat sleeping on a floor in Pompeii.
September 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I did! So many goodies in there. I obviously loved the gold painted Aphrodite but the Lakshmi (?) and this table really took my heart in there.
Marble statuette of Aphrodite taking off her sandal. She wears a bandeau top, body chain, necklace and bracelets, all painted on in gold. Ivory statuette of an Indian goddess, possibly Lakshmi from Pompeii. She is mostly nude but wears a lot of jewelry. Bronze brazier from Pompeii. The three table legs are styled as Satyrs with elegant lines and erect phalluses.
September 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Day 1 of my Naples vacation is pretty much done and I vastly underestimated how much time I would need at the MANN. Guess I'll have to come by a second day.
Some of my favourites from today below.
2nd century BCE bronze statue of Artemis shooting an arrow from the temple of Apollo in Pompeii. Her hair and headdress are beautifully modeled, the eyes are inlaid to look naturalistic and her dress is finely gathered. The bottom half of the statue is missing. An early first century CE relief of Heracles being inducted into the Eleusinian Mysteries. On the right a priest is pouring a liquid onto an alter in front of a tree. Heracles sits in the middle with his head entirely covered by his garment. Behind him on the left stands Kore with two lit torches. Marble statue of Psyche or Aphrodite, late 1st century BCE to early first century CE. The goddess has her head turned to the right, her gaze cast downward. Her torso is naked, both arms are missing. The statue broke along the line of her garment leading diagonally from her left shoulder to right hip, giving the statue an interesting silhouette. A wall painting from Boscoreale showing two ships which look as if they have big sad eyes, or "anime sad" as my best friend called it.
September 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Seeing this little cutie in person feels very special. Such a cool memento mori motif.

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A mosaic from Pompeii showing a skull surrounded by a butterfly on a wheel (symbolising the soul and fate), a plumb-bob, and symbols of poverty and wealth.
September 8, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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I know it's heavily restored but the Farnese bull group absolutely never ceases to amaze me.

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The so called "Farnese bull", a large marble statue group depicting Dirce's death by being tied to a bull.
September 8, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Museum bum spotted on the Doryphoros at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale si Napoli.

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Large marble statue of the so called "Doryphoros" (spear bearer) from behind. He has a very large butt.
September 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Museum bum spotted on the Doryphoros at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale si Napoli.

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A large marble statue of the so called "Doryphoros" (spear-bearer) from behind. He has a very large butt.
September 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Today's mission: Trying to find the upsides of being precariously employed in archaeology.

Being able to go for a little bike ride and have a nice picnic by a lake in the middle of the day on a Wednesday for example.

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A beige and white striped blanket is placed on grass with a tree and shrubs in the background. On the blanket is a glass container with red grapes and small tomatoes, a water bottle and a straw hat with a black ribbon.
August 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Getting out of the house to write was very necessary today. Working on something very exciting for the looting/repatriation/heritage protection crowd.

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A silver laptop with a text document open sits on a light wooden table. Next to it are a pair of dark blue earbuds and a pink drink. The background shows more café tables.
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Grieving my dog apparently means making a tiny little doggo out of air dry clay. First time ever trying something like this and I'm surprisingly pleased with how it's turning out.
The head of a dog peaking out from under a blanket, made out of white clay. A brown and white dog is looking out from under a green quilt.
July 30, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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On Sunday we lost our 15yo dog Camun.

He was the sweetest, calmest, cuddliest boy who loved nothing more than blankets and cheese.

I'm absolutely heartbroken. He will be so very missed.
A brown and white American Staffordshire lying on a beige armchair under a dark green blanket. He's looking at the camera.
July 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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My Cambridge University Press sale order just arrived and I'm so excited for all of these!

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The books lie on a brown desk. From left to right: "Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity" by Sarah F. Derbew "Prosthetics and Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece and Rome" by Jane Draycott "Sappho. A new translation of the complete works" by Diane J. Rayor and André Lardinois
July 15, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Evening program: Crochet and Colonialism scholarship with the German Lost Art Foundation.
A brown desk with a pink water bottle, a laptop and a pile of green crochet work on it. The laptop shows a slide with the text "Colloquium Provenance Research. German Lost Art Foundation. Missionary Societies and Religious Orders in German Colonies and Their Contribution to Ethnographic Collections. Dr. Jan Hüsgen, Dr. Ohiniko Mawussé Toffa, Isabella Bozsa"
July 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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I was accidentally sent 2 copies of this year's spring edition of The Journal of Art Crime. The nice people at the journal told me to keep it.
So if anyone wants it and is willing to pay for shipping from Germany, let me know.

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A white magazine cover is seen on a dark green background. The cover reads in black letters: "THE JOURNAL OF ART CRIME. SPRING 2025. ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH INTO CRIMES AGAINST ART". The middle of the page is taken up by a black cicular ornament.
July 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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One of my favourite paintings ever! A smaller print of it is the first thing I see whenever I enter my apartment.
A smaller print of the painting "Sappho" by Miguel Selva in a golden frame on a beige coloured wall.
July 7, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Step one: Trying to file down the texture from the print without losing too much of the beautiful, delicate details of the original artisan. This will probably take quite a while.
My jeweler's tools are coming in handy here.

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A small red 3D print of the Cleveland Apollo, surrounded by a number of tool, including files and a small electric motor. The statue shows some pale white tool marks.
July 1, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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I wrote my MA thesis about the Apollo Sauroctonos in Cleveland and I'm obsessed with it. Luckily, the museum made a 3D scan open access and I have a family member with a 3D printer.

I might post my progress with finishing this copy in the next weeks.
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The Apollo Sauroctonos in Cleveland. A Greek or Roman bronze statue of a naked young boy. His left arm is missing entirely, the left arm is preserved to just above the elbow. He's leaning to his left so that his body shows a pronounced curve. The patina of the statue is different shades of dark green. A small copy of the Cleveland Apollo made of red 3D printer filament.
July 1, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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I'm spending the weekend in Würzburg at the yearly conference of the German Association of Archaeologists (DArV).
Later I'll give a talk on new research of the Cleveland Apollo provenance but first a nice walk through the city's huge park.

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A lake with a large fountain, surrounded by grass and trees. There's a concrete sidewalk at the foreground.
June 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Lunch break = protest today

Today we're standing in favour of outlawing the extremist-right German AfD party. We can never let Nazis have power again.
A group of people standing on the sunny public square in front of Hannover opera house, Germany. They are photographed from the back. People are waving a number of different flags, including rainbow flags. An older man is wearing a white vest reading "Omas gegen rechts".
May 11, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Live tattooing at the museum today!

Our artist in residence Timo (Insta @tmo_tattoos) of two lines tattoo & art (Insta @2linestattoo) is hard at work.

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2 people are shown from being. One is wearing a black tank top and beanie and is lying on a white massage bench. They're being tattooed on the upper arm by a man in a beige T-Shirt. There's a painting of a naked woman in the background. A white metal rolling cart is filled with tattoo supplies. A white massage bench, stool and metal rolling cart are prepped for a tattoo session. They're standing on a white and rose gold meander floor. The background is a painting of Bathseba.
April 25, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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Interested in Tattoos?
Come visit Museum August Kestner in Hannover, Germany and see our exhibition "Tattoo. Antiquity beneath the skin". It covers tattoos in the ancient Mediterranean, 19th/20th century tattooed carnies, and why people today get ancient motifs tattooed.

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Two narrow, long banners side by side. The left one is magenta in colour and features a silver medallion. It reads "Städtetrip. Stadtbilder Europas". The left is black and shows the naked back of a woman with a the tattoo of a classic looking woman. The text reads "Tattoo. Antike, die unter die Haut geht". A wall of the exhibition "Tattoo". It is covered in scaffolding. The top level of scaffolding shows large scale photos of early 20th century tattooed carnies. The lower level includes a gallery wall of advertising postcards for the same people. A large white banner with the photo of a shard of Greek pottery. It shows a red coloured woman with facial tattooed on the chin and neck on black background. A white wall with a gallery of white frames that show modern tattoos with ancient motifs. Top row from left to right: - Amphora with Dionysus and a satyr (on a shin) - Photorealistic rendering of the so called "Boxer at Rest" (on a forearm) - Portrait of the goddess Artemis (on a forearm) - Helmet of a thraex gladiator (on a forearm) - Schematic of 4 Roman transport amphorae (on the ribs) Bottom row from left to right: - Volute krater with Helios in his chariot (on a thigh) - Amphora with Asclepios (on a forearm) - Photorealistic rendering of the Laokoon group (on a forearm) - Medusa Rondanini (on the upper back) - Text: Hier könnte Ihr Bild hängen
April 17, 2025 at 11:30 AM