@turgon we also have a PhD program...

for the less-anciently inclined, the call is also open in Clinical and Translational Oncology; Cosmology, space science & space technology; Genomic and experimental medicine; Global History and Governance; Law and Organizational Studies for People with Disability; Mathematical and physical sciences for advanced materials and technologies; Modeling and engineering risk and complexity; Molecular Sciences for Earth and Space; Texts, Traditions and Book Cultures

Named areas are: Classical archaeology, Greek history, Roman history, Egyptology, Classical philology, Latin language and literature, Museology, Architectural history and Architectural restoration.

Faculty at: https://www.ssmeridionale.it/en-us/dottorato/rubriche/archeologia-e-culture-del-mediterraneo-antico-acma-3117-1-cfa8e256653e44e3e8664dfa7443484b?collegio-docenti-14357#hcollegio-docenti

"Required qualifications: PhD in one of the disciplinary fields.. granted by no later than June 2023; excellent knowledge of both written and spoken English; Preferential requirements: good knowledge of at least a second or third language other than the candidate’s mother tongue"

At the above link, you will find more details in the documents "Call for checks SSM_2022_ENG_short version" and "TECHNICAL_SCHEDA_01__ACMA_ENG"

Come work with me in Naples! 4 postdoc positions in Archaeology & Cultures of the Ancient Mediterranean, €35k/year, 1 year renewable up to 3. Area of specialization in Mediterranean antiquity open, including Egyptology. Deadline 25 Feb. Happy to answer questions.

https://www.ssmeridionale.it/en-us/la-scuola/bandi-di-concorso/assegnisti-di-ricerca/2022/bando-di-concorso-per-il-conferimento-di-n-40-assegni-post-dottorato-per-lo-svolgimento-di-34192-1-024f3972a1fe2f253b05bbbe42c6b4a9
#postdoc #job #academic #archaeology

#Photos from the first installment of the #exhibit "Ulisse e gli altri. Alla scoperta dei capolavori nascosti del Museo Nazionale Romano ("#Ulysses and the others. Discovering the hidden masterpieces of the National #Roman Museum"), Baths of Diocletian #archaeology #sculpture #Rome
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dandiffendale/albums/72177720305460202

@serviliusahala that's a terrible shame

It very much helps to visualize the urban productions of portable material culture over these centuries.

A great shame that photography is forbidden (especially as all the material comes from "domestic" collections). One can hope that that might change once(?) the catalog appears 🤞
3/3

Familiar contexts in new light, unfamiliar contexts brought to the fore. #Votive deposits to match those from elsewhere in Italy (plus some unusual pieces-- anasyrma anyone?); 5th c BCE architectural terracottas from Largo Argentina (to go with the bits of foundation in Tufo del Palatino/cappellaccio under Temple B?), #sculpture in both #terracotta and #tuff (just some old friends from Montemartini for the latter), lots of #Genucilia, Black Gloss, lamps, molds. 2/3

Classics and Italian Colonialism conference
Date: 22-24 June 2023
Location: Museo delle Civiltà, Rome
Further details incl. CFP:

#Classics #decolonisation

https://pastandpresent.org.uk/classics-and-italian-colonialism-call-for-papers-classici-e-colonialismo-italiano-call-for-papers/

@telliott that's the one!

just uploaded, photos from a lesser-known #Roman rural sanctuary of the Late Republic in Picenum #archaeology
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dandiffendale/albums/72177720304955959

@bookandswordblog 19th-20th c

there are a lot of technical works that were published in Naples and don't seem to have circulated widely elsewhere in Italy, but are difficult to find in Naples itself because not well catalogued or have gone missing... one continues to search used book stalls

Ancient people encountering ancienter things:
Agatharchides (5.29) writes of gold mines in Egypt, "Even in our time [the 2nd c. BCE] bronze chisels are found in the gold mine excavated by those rulers [the pharaohs] because the use of iron was not yet known at that time. Human bones in unbelievable numbers are also found since, as was likely to have happened, many cave-ins occurred in the unstable galleries with their brittle walls, given the great extent of the excavations..." (trans. Burstein)

Holy moly. This is gonna be a time sink of massive dimensions. Much of the Boston Public Library's vinyl collection digitized on archive.org

Lots of stuff you know and lots more you don't.

https://archive.org/details/vinyl_bostonpubliclibrary

#music #publiclibrary #vinyl #archiveorg

went to the library to consult a book, and they said here you go, it's due back in a week. Amazing! (I have not been frequenting lending libraries for a few years now)

always jarring to be reading in the 19th century, and find the "labor of workers" referring to what we'd call scientists... knowledge-workers, I know, but such jarring itself is jarring

Basically, instead of QTing something, on Mastodon it's possible to reply to a post and then boost your reply.

That way, the visibility is the same as a Quote would have been, but with the interesting property that the OP doesn't get silenced/steamrolled, but the original post is still easily visible. More conversational, less adversarial.