Daedalus and Icarus on a 4th-century BC Apulian krater fragment. BAPD 9053789 beazley.ox.ac.uk/record/615FC75… CARC

Silver stater, cow standing right with suckling calf, Dyrrachium (Illyria), 5th-4th century BC #museum #coins #Venice #Archaeology

Since people liked my 2000 yr old foot from #Olympia here’s another one! Again spending today writing about #ancient #OlympicGames - again happily distracted by modern genius and dedication of #athletes #Olympics24 x

Incredible statue group being excavated in Laodicea, thought to depict Odysseus and his crew being attacked by Scylla. Lots of preserved pigments in hair and beards! (Images: Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism)

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Assistant Professor in Roman Art and Archaeology job with Department of Art & Archaeology | 37696204 - jobs.chronicle.com/job/37696204/a…

Come and visit us at the Faculty of Classics on the University of Oxford's undergraduate open day on Friday 20 September. There'll be an admissions talk by Dr Georgy Kantor and taster lectures by your very own Outreach Team: Dr Alison Pollard and Dr Andrew Sillett.

We are pleased to confirm that normal service to our website and databases has been restored, after a power cut this morning in central Oxford.

The little Roman intaglio I found the other week isn’t a beetle, it’s a frog! Frogs were associated with fertility and harmony, and with debauchery in association with the goddess Venus. It is the first to have ever been found in Britain 1/3 #mudlarkingfinds #mudlarking

Does anyone recognize this English scene in a negative from HE Archive F.R. Taylor collection – one of the mystery photos they regularly post on @flickr. Zoom in and the figure on the wall is unmistakably the lid of an Etruscan funerary urn! …tframe.historicenglandservices.org.uk/p/tay01_02_071…

For #EpigraphyTuesday a gold ring engraved with a female bust and a reversed inscription, it's a blessing: VIVAS MARINA - may you live Marina. From Trier-Ruwer, dating late 3rd/early 4th century AD. On display at Landesmuseum Trier #RomanArchaeology 📷 taken by me

Proud to share I've accepted a role as Assistant Curator of Ancient Art at the Toledo Museum of Art, one of the best antiquities collections in the US. I'll have the great honor to reimagine Toledo Museum of Art’s ancient galleries in a once-in-a-generation reinstall. See you in Ohio!

Camée représentant l’empereur Auguste sur un char tiré par des tritons, vers 27 av. J.-C., Kunsthistorisches Museum.

Still time to sign up for our Parthian art workshop (eventbrite link below). We'd love to see you in Oxford if you can come and meet our speakers in person, but if you can't Zoom reservation is also available.

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Stèle funéraire d’une enfant nommée Melisto, fille de Ktesikrates, et morte vers 7 ans. Sud-est d’Athènes, vers 340 av. J.-C. Musées d’art de Harvard.

Archeo di settembre è in edicola! Il sommario completo è sul nostro sito archeo.it

Roman ringstone depicting Athena found at Assos

A terrific depiction of Actaeon being attacked by his dogs - he’s not gone full stag, but he does have little festive antlers 🦌 You can hear this story in the Artemis episode of the show: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The image on this Apulian red-figure chous (wine jug) depicts the moment Kallisto is transformed into a bear by an enraged Hera after the woman bears Zeus’ child. Here she already has a bear’s ears, hairy arms, and paws. 🐻 #GettyVilla #ancientart 📸 me