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Hardcover 9780300273144 Published: Tuesday, 4 Feb 2025 $35.002024-08-05T13:18:23+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/posts/2024-08-02T13:26:44+00:00weekly0.6https://sarahemilybond.com/links/2023-04-05T12:47:52+00:00weekly0.6https://sarahemilybond.com/2023/04/05/unpacking-the-greco-roman-mythology-in-john-wick-chapter-4/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/screenshot-2023-04-05-at-6.59.56-am.pngscreenshot-2023-04-05-at-6.59.56-amhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/screenshot-2023-04-03-at-7.45.21-am.pngscreenshot-2023-04-03-at-7.45.21-am2023-04-05T12:15:00+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/list-of-women-in-ancient-history/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/screen-shot-2016-06-23-at-1-55-54-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-06-23 at 1.55.54 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/screen-shot-2016-05-28-at-6-05-05-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-05-28 at 6.05.05 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/screen-shot-2016-05-28-at-5-56-33-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-05-28 at 5.56.33 AM2022-09-04T11:18:00+00:00weekly0.6https://sarahemilybond.com/home/2022-09-03T12:17:20+00:00weekly0.6https://sarahemilybond.com/2022/08/16/teaching-gladiators-slavery-and-the-lure-of-the-arena/2022-08-16T13:19:17+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2022/06/14/pretty-as-a-pictor-male-and-female-painters-in-the-roman-mediterranean/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/screen-shot-2022-06-14-at-11.52.06-am.pngScreen Shot 2022-06-14 at 11.52.06 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image-3.pngimage-3https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image-2.pngimage-2https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image-1.pngimage-1https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image.pngimagehttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/screen-shot-2022-06-14-at-10.32.20-am.pngscreen-shot-2022-06-14-at-10.32.20-am2022-06-15T13:55:14+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/03/10/epigraphy-enchiridion-a-list-of-open-access-books-for-teaching-greek-and-roman-inscriptions/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/an01064351_001_l.jpgAN01064351_001_lVia the British Museum: "Album of 40 prints and drawings of bas-reliefs; formerly belonging to Charles Townley. Marble relief of a skeleton with a Greek inscription (BM Cat. Sculpture 2391). Pen and ink; loose in album. Album tooled in gold on spine 'Drawings III Bas Reliefs etc in Marble'."https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-10-at-10-44-57-am2.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-10 at 10.44.57 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-10-at-2-59-22-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-10 at 2.59.22 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-10-at-2-48-04-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-10 at 2.48.04 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-10-at-2-17-45-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-10 at 2.17.45 PMHicks and Hill, "Notanda," xxxiii. This is Hicks and Hill's guide to Greek numerical and monetary signs in inscriptions. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cb-m87zucaaoogx.pngCb-m87ZUcAAOogxCommon ligatures (=conjoining letters to save space) in Latin inscriptions [Egbert 1896]. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-10-at-10-44-57-am1.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-10 at 10.44.57 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-10-at-10-44-57-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-10 at 10.44.57 AM2022-03-04T18:50:04+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/04/11/can-i-get-your-autograph-a-short-history-of-signature-collecting/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-11-at-12-27-35-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-11 at 12.27.35 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1a69aa07-4f0f-4161-abdb-4cdd6b2c5c0c.jpg1a69aa07-4f0f-4161-abdb-4cdd6b2c5c0chttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-11-at-10-52-21-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-11 at 10.52.21 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/album_amicorum_van_hiskia_van_harinxma_8077179058.jpgAlbum_amicorum_van_Hiskia_van_Harinxma_(8077179058)Wikimedia Image uploaded on 02-10-2013 from the Flickr stream of the Royal Library, The Hague (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, national library of the Netherlands). This is a page from the album amicorum of van Hans van Wyckel.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-11-at-10-29-37-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-11 at 10.29.37 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-11-at-10-24-55-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-11 at 10.24.55 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-11-at-9-58-50-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-11 at 9.58.50 AMThe bronze Tabula Banasitana. (Morocco), Musée archéologique de Rabat. Note the bottom says "Signaverunt" (They signed), followed by a list of people. 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It has eight intaglio-carved scenes (carve c. 855 CE) with the story of Susanna from the Vulgate, who was accused of incest. Image via Wikimedia. The Lothair Crystal is now at the British Museum. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/screen-shot-2016-05-22-at-4-33-10-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-05-22 at 4.33.10 AMPainting by Giulio Parigi in 1600, showing Archimedes' “death ray" (Now in the Uffizi in Florence). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/an00396842_001_l.jpgAN00396842_001_lhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/screen-shot-2016-05-22-at-3-35-08-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-05-22 at 3.35.08 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/343.jpg343https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/329.jpg3292021-04-16T11:25:53+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2021/04/08/at-the-copa-women-clothing-and-color-codes-in-roman-taverns/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/d67two_x4aqgdh_-e1617889941717.jpegD67TwO_X4AQGDh_2021-04-09T13:06:25+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2021/03/21/ancient-3d-models-before-digital-modeling/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/screen-shot-2021-03-21-at-8.36.59-am.pngScreen Shot 2021-03-21 at 8.36.59 AM2021-03-21T22:28:33+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2020/12/02/podcast-12-thrown-together-potters-painters-and-ceramic-production-with-sanchita-balachandran/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/60_2_s1_tf_200906-e1595531747655.jpg60_2_s1_TF_200906-e1595531747655https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/sbheadshot_landscape.jpgImage of Sanchita Balachandran2020-12-02T15:30:16+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2020/07/13/what-are-the-best-classics-books-for-children/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/screen-shot-2020-07-13-at-8.06.09-am.pngScreen Shot 2020-07-13 at 8.06.09 AM2020-07-17T18:36:36+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2020/01/12/the-story-of-the-black-king-among-the-magi/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/menologion_of_basil_006.jpgMenologion_of_Basil_006Illustration from the Byzantine Menologion of Basil II of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch (Image via the Vatican Library, Vat. gr. 1613). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/screen-shot-2020-01-07-at-6.30.42-am.pngScreen Shot 2020-01-07 at 6.30.42 AMStone sealing the loculus (niche tomb) of Severa with a depiction of the Magi (3rd-4thC CE, Catacombs, Rome, Italy, now at the Vatican Museums). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/screen-shot-2020-01-07-at-6.32.38-am.pngScreen Shot 2020-01-07 at 6.32.38 AMA fresco of the Adoration of the Magi, 3rd century CE, Catacombs of Priscilla, Rome, Italy(Image via the Web Gallery of Art).2020-03-20T15:07:23+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2020/03/20/working-together-to-transcribe-ancient-documents-during-covid-19/2020-03-20T15:06:31+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2019/09/08/a-global-antiquity-the-association-of-ancient-historians-meeting-2020/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/madaba-map.jpgmadaba-map2019-09-08T12:56:36+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2019/08/08/in-libris-libertas-open-access-monographs-in-classics-ancient-history-art-history-and-archaeology/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_6154-1.jpgIMG_6154An niche-cover epitaph for an enslaved Roman librarius named Nothus, who served as a secretary and archivist. The poem notes his wife built this niche tomb for him after Pluto snatched him to the underworld. It is now at the Baths of Diocletian epigraphic museum in Rome (Porta Maggiore, Tomb of the Statilii, Rome, 1stC CE, Image by Sarah E. Bond).https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_6154.jpgIMG_6154An epitaph for an enslaved librarius named Nothus, who served as a secretary and archivist. The poem notes his wife built this tomb for him after Pluto snatched him to the underworld. It is now at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome (Porta Maggiore, Tomb of the Statilii, Rome, 1stC CE, Image by Sarah E. Bond). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/img_6159.jpgIMG_61592019-08-13T12:50:57+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2019/07/13/consider-the-anus-radish-etymologies-adultery-and-the-defense-of-the-microhistory/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/an1613292625_l.jpgAN1613292625_lRoman mosaic of a red mullet (150-225 CE) now at the British Museum (Image via the British Museum). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/6685931927_fa49aa9aaa_b.jpgOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERARegio I - Insula II - Caseggiato del Termopolio (The House of the Bar), Detail of the painting on the east wall of room 6, Ostia Antica, Italy (Image by Carole Raddato via her Flickr page under a CC-BY-SA 2.0). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/tumblr_p5nbc152tb1rqxd5ko1_1280.jpgtumblr_p5nbc152tB1rqxd5ko1_1280"blue root" herbal, Italy 15th century Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library (@upennmanuscripts), LJS 419, fol. 42r2019-07-13T19:38:22+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2019/06/02/through-the-eyes-of-ruby-discovering-color-and-trade-in-the-world-between-empires/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/screen-shot-2019-06-02-at-10.21.55-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-06-02 at 10.21.55 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/screen-shot-2019-06-02-at-10.22.17-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-06-02 at 10.22.17 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/screen-shot-2019-06-02-at-10.15.34-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-06-02 at 10.15.34 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/screen-shot-2019-06-02-at-10.15.44-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-06-02 at 10.15.44 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/screen-shot-2019-06-02-at-10.15.52-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-06-02 at 10.15.52 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/indian.jpgindianIndiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) famously used Petra as a backdrop for the fictional retrieval of the Holy Grail. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/shields-trio.jpgshields-triohttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/screen-shot-2019-06-02-at-8.15.58-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-06-02 at 8.15.58 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/screen-shot-2019-06-02-at-8.16.20-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-06-02 at 8.16.20 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/screen-shot-2019-06-02-at-7.30.13-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-06-02 at 7.30.13 AM2019-06-03T11:41:23+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2019/04/27/the-jewish-colosseum-revising-the-memory-of-romes-flavian-amphitheater/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/colosseum-with-stations-of-the-cross.jpglarge.jpgcolosseum-with-stations-of-the-cross.jpg!Largehttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/200-forma_urbis-original.jpg200 forma_urbis originalhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/screen-shot-2019-04-27-at-7.38.20-am.pngScreen Shot 2019-04-27 at 7.38.20 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/f010277.jpgF0102772019-04-28T12:15:57+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2019/03/27/pro-publica-a-public-classics-workshop/2019-03-27T21:39:52+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2019/03/19/the-art-of-the-logographer-ghostwriting-from-antiquity-to-trump/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/dmdusd2uiauruy5.jpgDMdUSd2UIAUruy5Roman fresco depicting a hierogrammateus or sacred scribe reading scroll of papyrus-from the Temple of Isis, north porch, Pompeii 1st c. ADhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cicero-writing-from-bl-harley-6349-f-2-be2306-1024.jpgcicero-writing-from-bl-harley-6349-f-2-be2306-1024https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/s-l640.jpgs-l6402019-03-19T13:35:16+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2019/03/04/my-statement-on-the-future-of-classics-panel-and-the-aftermath/2019-03-04T17:35:24+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2019/01/18/reacting-to-the-racist-events-at-the-scs-aia-annual-meeting-in-san-diego-a-roundup/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/screen-shot-2019-01-18-at-5.52.30-am.pngscreen shot 2019-01-18 at 5.52.30 am2019-02-28T15:26:17+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/12/16/deus-ex-machina-depicting-cranes-and-pulleys-in-the-ancient-world/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2152965284_bf41b03dd6_b-1.jpg2152965284_bf41b03dd6_bhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/2152965284_bf41b03dd6_b.jpg2152965284_bf41b03dd6_bhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-16-at-8.28.02-AM.pngScreen Shot 2018-12-16 at 8.28.02 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Screen-Shot-2018-12-16-at-8.21.32-AM.pngScreen Shot 2018-12-16 at 8.21.32 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/var_tmp_Digital_Objects_MSBZ009_NorthAdriatic_SanMarco_jpegs_U838312.jpg_var_tmp_Digital_Objects_MSBZ009_NorthAdriatic_SanMarco_jpegs_U838312https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/var_tmp_Digital_Objects_MSBZ009_NorthAdriatic_SanMarco_jpegs_U838311_141.jpg_var_tmp_Digital_Objects_MSBZ009_NorthAdriatic_SanMarco_jpegs_U838311_141Photograph: Ekkehard Ritter. Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/var_tmp_Digital_Objects_MSBZ009_NorthAdriatic_SanMarco_jpegs_U838315_141.jpg_var_tmp_Digital_Objects_MSBZ009_NorthAdriatic_SanMarco_jpegs_U838315_141Photograph: Ekkehard Ritter. Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/var_tmp_Digital_Objects_MSBZ009_NorthAdriatic_SanMarco_jpegs_U838312_141.jpg_var_tmp_Digital_Objects_MSBZ009_NorthAdriatic_SanMarco_jpegs_U838312_141Photograph: Ekkehard Ritter. Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/DtGoGFuWoAEdslO-e1544967120311.jpgDtGoGFuWoAEdslORepost from unccollege Jodi Magness and her team have released new photos of their dig at an ancient Jewish village. The fifth century mosaics in Huqoq include a panel depicting the construction of the Tower of Babel.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/BgHOB-9CUAEvDR8.pngBgHOB-9CUAEvDR82018-12-16T15:54:52+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/11/25/building-the-iron-gates-of-alexander-the-migrant-caravan-geographies-of-fear/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/merlin_145399455_93b48213-92f9-4907-a827-4717b437fc41-superjumbo.jpgmerlin_145399455_93b48213-92f9-4907-a827-4717b437fc41-superJumbohttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/screen-shot-2018-11-25-at-6-52-48-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-11-25 at 6.52.48 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/dlce-fqu0aamd4e.jpgDlCe-fQU0AAMD4ehttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/an1613271566_l.jpgAN1613271566_lhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/screen-shot-2018-11-25-at-4-40-22-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-11-25 at 4.40.22 AMAlexander shuts out Gog and Magog (14thC CE, Hellenic Institute codex 5 f. 179v. Image via Wikimedia and is in the Public Domain). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cyprus_katalymmata_03.jpgCyprus_Katalymmata_03The marble stele with a bust of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius personified as Alexander the Great (Image Credit: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ via the Archaeology News Network). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/alexander-mosaic-huqoq.jpgAlexander Mosaic, HuqoqA Huqoq mosaic dated to the 5thC CE which may depict Alexander the Great interacting with the high priest of Jerusalem (Image by Mark Thiessen for National Geographic). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/figure-1-2018-excavation_the-spies-panel.jpg2018 The Spies PanelThe Spies Panel Copyright: Jim Haberman2018-11-27T03:00:32+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/10/15/book-review-not-all-dead-white-men/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/screen-shot-2018-10-15-at-6-46-33-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-10-15 at 6.46.33 AM2018-10-15T13:38:21+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/09/26/taking-a-sapphic-stanza-papyri-digital-humanities-and-reclaiming-the-work-of-ancient-women/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/f2b9861d1291e6f424eac98a346faf77-e1537980035126.jpgf2b9861d1291e6f424eac98a346faf77https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/poxy-v0021-n2289-a-01-hires.jpgPOxy.v0021.n2289.a.01.hireshttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/703cc775ba33bfc85f4d4975c73034da.jpg703cc775ba33bfc85f4d4975c73034daIliad. Book 18. 393-617 (with extensive lacunae), Karanis, Egypt, second/third century C.E., Papyrus, 30 x 100 cm. P. Mich. Inv. 316. Image via the University of Michigan Libraries. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/screen-shot-2018-09-26-at-11-11-14-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-09-26 at 11.11.14 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/screen-shot-2018-09-26-at-10-40-46-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-09-26 at 10.40.46 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/screen-shot-2018-09-26-at-10-38-22-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-09-26 at 10.38.22 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/sf14-1-139s1.jpgsf14-1-139s1https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/screen-shot-2018-09-26-at-10-22-39-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-09-26 at 10.22.39 AMMiniature of Sappho and her companions, from a Dutch translation of Christine de Pizan’s Livre de la Cité des Dames, Bruges, 1475, Add MS 20698, f. 73r2018-09-26T17:09:06+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/09/15/signs-of-the-times-ancient-symbols-reused-by-hate-groups/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/6d12d57b3076d56bb3cebbd4e86b00f7.jpg6d12d57b3076d56bb3cebbd4e86b00f7https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/hitler-y-el-discobolo-de-miron.jpghitler-y-el-discobolo-de-mironhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cs2fdcowsaat73k.jpgCS2fdcoWsAAT73k<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just spotted these presumably Fascist era <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SPQR?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SPQR</a> plates in the pavements of Rome featuring the 'fasces'. <a href="https://t.co/xaulrKta6x">pic.twitter.com/xaulrKta6x</a></p>— Dr Sophie Hay (@pompei79) <a href="https://twitter.com/pompei79/status/661360065807560704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 3, 2015</a></blockquote> <a href="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js">https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js</a> https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1920px-ceb8ceb5cf81cebccebfcf80cf85cc81cebbceb5cf82_-_panoramio_1.jpg1920px-Θερμοπύλες_-_panoramio_(1)The 1955 Leonidas Monument at Thermopylae with "Molon Labe" inscribed on the base (CC-BY-SA 3.0). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/ae16d88eab2ff36d5c0213a47f7654ea.jpgae16d88eab2ff36d5c0213a47f7654eaA YouTube still from the videogame "Rome: Total War" that has a purple SPQR vexillum with a Roman military aquila ("eagle") on a standard. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/https_2f2fblogs-images-forbes-com2fdrsarahbond2ffiles2f20172f082fbundesarchiv_bild_102-02985a_berlin_fackelzug_zur_machtergreifung_hitlers.jpghttps_blogs-images.forbes.comdrsarahbondfiles201708Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-02985A_Berlin_Fackelzug_zur_Machtergreifung_HitlersThe torchlight procession in honor of the new Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler moves through the Wilhelmstraße in Berlin on the evening of 30 January 1933 (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/https_2f2fblogs-images-forbes-com2fdrsarahbond2ffiles2f20172f082fimg_6094-1200x900.jpghttps_blogs-images.forbes.comdrsarahbondfiles201708IMG_6094-1200x900A 3rd c. CE relief depicting a Mithraic scene where a bull is being slaughtered shows a torch bearer providing light during the ritual. The relief with polychromy is now at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome.2018-10-25T11:35:14+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/08/31/redesigning-woah-women-of-ancient-history/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/download.jpgdownloadhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/screen-shot-2018-08-31-at-10-59-27-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-08-31 at 10.59.27 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/screen-shot-2018-08-31-at-10-38-35-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-08-31 at 10.38.35 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/screen-shot-2018-08-31-at-10-10-56-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-08-31 at 10.10.56 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/https_2f2fblogs-images-forbes-com2fdrsarahbond2ffiles2f20172f102fplacing-segregation.pnghttps_blogs-images.forbes.comdrsarahbondfiles201710Placing-Segregation2018-08-31T16:35:26+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/02/26/creating-a-public-space-open-access-book-theft-and-the-epigraphy-of-ancient-libraries/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-26-at-2-15-48-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-26 at 2.15.48 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/21-october-2012-ravenna-italy-132_2-712014.jpg21 October 2012 - Ravenna, Italy 132_2-712014https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tumblr_mm844cmlmj1soj7s4o3_500.jpgtumblr_mm844cMlmJ1soj7s4o3_500https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/image-3.jpgimage-3https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-26-at-10-53-09-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-26 at 10.53.09 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-26-at-10-42-10-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-26 at 10.42.10 AMA modified map of the Athenian Agora ca. 150 CE with the library highlighted. The Map was originally drawn by John Camp in 1976. See article and images at the Agora Excavations site HERE. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-26-at-9-45-44-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-26 at 9.45.44 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/front.jpgFrontPlaque in the Special Collections Department at the University of Iowa Main Library. Photo dated to April of 1966. Image via the Iowa Digital Library.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-21-at-12-05-30-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-21 at 12.05.30 PM2018-07-24T11:16:42+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/02/18/amo-amas-amat-greco-roman-school-exercises/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/31012-ober222.jpg31012-OBer222A math exercise connected to a jar inscription from the first century CE (O.Berenike 2.234, image via papyri.info). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/screen-shot-2016-02-18-at-6-45-39-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-18 at 6.45.39 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/screen-shot-2016-02-18-at-6-36-43-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-18 at 6.36.43 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cbssvmuumaa8ysu.jpgCbSSVmuUMAA8ySuhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/numbers2.gifnumbers2https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/screen-shot-2016-02-18-at-6-01-03-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-18 at 6.01.03 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/883320390_25dec0f6d3_b1.jpeg883320390_25dec0f6d3_bhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/883320390_25dec0f6d3_b.jpeg883320390_25dec0f6d3_bhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/punizione_di_uno_scolaro_julia_felix_small.jpgpunizione_di_uno_scolaro_julia_felix_smallhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/5647101_orig.png5647101_orig2018-07-09T15:03:53+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/06/24/a-reversed-perspective-looking-at-greek-and-roman-art-from-behinds/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/venus_callipyge_-_museo_archeologico_nazionale_-_naples-1.jpgVenus_callipyge_-_Museo_Archeologico_Nazionale_-_Naples-1The Venus Kallipyge mentioned in Joyce's Ulysses (Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Inv. 6020, image via Wikimedia under a CC BY-SA 3.0)https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/299132ed543ea71c270f843b8fea30e2.jpg299132ed543ea71c270f843b8fea30e22018-06-24T13:54:30+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/06/18/digitization-%e2%89%a0-repatriation-when-digital-humanities-provides-access-but-not-restitution/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/canon_table_page_-_google_art_project_6866843.jpgCanon_Table_Page_-_Google_Art_Project_(6866843)Gospels, Eusebian Canon Table Page, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS102 (16th c., image available via the Getty Open Content program). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/screen-shot-2018-06-18-at-7-34-54-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-06-18 at 7.34.54 AMA 19th c. Lakota (Sioux) child's beaded vest in the Astor Collection at the University of Virginia. See the full database here.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/pl1_366_opn_tr_t01ii.jpgpl1_366_opn_tr_t01iihttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/astor-hotel-hres.jpgAstor-Hotel-hreshttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/800-h6-6-gui-pillage-second-temple.jpg800.h6.6.gui.pillage-second-temple.Marble relief of Romans carry out the menorah and other spoils after capturing Jerusalem, Arch of Titus, ca. 82 CE. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/screen-shot-2018-06-18-at-6-21-14-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-06-18 at 6.21.14 AM"Marble relief (Block XLVII) from the North frieze of the Parthenon. The frieze shows the procession of the Panathenaic festival, the commemoration of the birthday of the goddess Athena. Like the southern branch of the procession, the northern branch comprises mounted horsemen, chariots, elders, musicians, pitcher-bearers, tray-bearers and figures leading sacrificial victims." (Caption and Screenshot via Sketchfab and authored by Daniel Pett). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/ethiop5.jpgethiop5From an Ethiopic manuscript comprising the Four Gospels. It is written in Ge’ez script and likely comes from the Gojjam province in Ethiopia (MS. Aeth. c. 14 fol 100v, image via the Bodleian's Archives and Manuscripts blog). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/14031_slice.jpg14031_slice"The storming of Magdala, 1868" (Painting via the National Army Museum, London, UK. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/the-flight-into-egypt-720x763-1.jpgthe-flight-into-Egypt-720x763-1Manuscript depicting the flight into Egypt: Mary and Jesus followed by Joseph (image courtesy of and via the British Library)2018-08-21T06:02:22+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/06/04/the-color-of-the-other-importing-multi-colored-marble-and-roman-constructions-of-the-barbarian/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/https_2f2fblogs-images-forbes-com2fdrsarahbond2ffiles2f20172f062fimg_2891-1200x900.jpghttps_blogs-images.forbes.comdrsarahbondfiles201706IMG_2891-1200x900https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/34798598790_957faf8132_k.jpg34798598790_957faf8132_kChryselephantine sculpture likely of Apollo, Archaic period, Ionian workshop, 6th century BCE, Delphi, Archaeological Museum (image via Flickr by Egisto Sani under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0).https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/image8.pngimage8https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/napoli_museo_archeologico_-_persiani_ingonocchiati_cropped.jpgNapoli,_museo_archeologico_-_Persiani_ingonocchiati_(cropped)https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/https_2f2fblogs-images-forbes-com2fdrsarahbond2ffiles2f20162f102fimg_2851-1200x900.jpghttps_blogs-images.forbes.comdrsarahbondfiles201610IMG_2851-1200x900An opus sectile mosaic of a charioteer (with some rather spooked horses) from the 4th c. CE. Now at Palazzo Massimo in Rome (Photo by Sarah E. Bond). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/leopard_farnese_man_napoli_inv6223.jpgLeopard_Farnese_MAN_Napoli_Inv6223The "Farnese Leopard" from the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli is done in pavonnazo marble in order to give it spots. It is an early imperial sculpture (image via Wikimedia taken by Marie-Lan Nguyen and is under a CC BY 2.5 license). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/dtxfjuxuqaawyrc.jpgDTXFJuxUQAAwYrchttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_8240.jpgIMG_8240https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/dtw9jytvqae8gcf.jpgDTW9jYTVQAE8gcFThe 1st c. CE "captive barbarian" at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/dtw9jytvqaitbmx.jpgDTW9jYTVQAItbmXThe 1st c. CE "captive barbarian" at the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)2018-06-04T16:27:27+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/05/09/the-gospel-of-unicode-digital-love-letters-and-art-through-numbers/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/screen-shot-2018-05-09-at-8-08-50-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-05-09 at 8.08.50 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/screen-shot-2018-05-09-at-8-00-17-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-05-09 at 8.00.17 AMManuscript by Greek calligrapher Luke the Cypriot (1594-1596) now at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. The text of the Gospel Lectionary has now been TEI encoded. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/screen-shot-2018-05-09-at-7-51-29-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-05-09 at 7.51.29 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/screen-shot-2018-05-09-at-7-52-07-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-05-09 at 7.52.07 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/screen-shot-2018-05-09-at-7-16-27-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-05-09 at 7.16.27 AMFragment of the "stela of Horiraa" now at the British Museu which has a funerary inscription of three horizontal lines incised with hieroglyphs, painted black, and reading right to left. Below the Hieroglyphs are two horizontal lines of black-painted cursive script in Demotic. To the right are a number of encoded Hieroglyphs. 2018-05-09T16:02:57+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/04/26/labeling-ancient-and-modern-slavery-within-museums/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/screen-shot-2018-04-26-at-7-20-34-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-04-26 at 7.20.34 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_7599.jpgIMG_7599https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/an00459080_001_l.jpgAN00459080_001_l"Marble relief with portraits of the freedmen Publius Licinius Philonicus and Publius Licinius Demetrius. On the left are the rods and axes used in the ceremony of freeing a slave. In the pediment are the tools of a smith or moneyer, and, on the right, the tools of a carpenter" (Photo and caption via the British Museum, London). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_8082.jpgIMG_8082https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_8118.jpgIMG_8118https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_8100.jpgIMG_8100https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_8094.jpgIMG_8094https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_8095.jpgIMG_80952018-04-26T12:21:43+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2015/10/25/mapping-the-underworld-space-text-and-imaginary-landscapes-in-antiquity/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/miltonscosmology.jpgMiltonsCosmologyDrawing of John Milton's Cosmology by Walter Clyde Curry, a student of Milton (Image via Cari Gibson et al.). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/screen-shot-2015-10-29-at-2-00-53-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-29 at 2.00.53 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/twin-peaks-map-david-lynch.jpgtwin-peaks-map-david-lynchDavid Lynch created a number of paintings for the In The Trees art exhibition in LA. (Image via Welcome To Twin Peaks). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sandro_botticelli_-_la_carte_de_lenfer.jpgSandro_Botticelli_-_La_Carte_de_l'EnferSandro Botticelli's famous drawing (c.1480) of Dante's Inferno. (Image via Wikimedia). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/4a5a0cefc.jpg4a5a0cefcTop left corner of the Tolkien map. (Photo from Blackwell’s Rare Books, Via CityLab). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/screen-shot-2015-10-29-at-12-59-40-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-29 at 12.59.40 PMScreenshot Map of Caesar's Gallic War (See interactive one here) made by Sarah Bond, but using as a base the KML file created by the DCC commentary. Check it out here. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/screen-shot-2015-10-29-at-12-36-22-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-29 at 12.36.22 PMDrawing of Caesar's Bellum Gallicum 1.1 by Jacob Flatness, Classics Major at University of Iowa (With his permission). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/screen-shot-2015-10-28-at-1-42-37-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-28 at 1.42.37 PMDrawing done by Sam Connet for Rob Ketterer's Virgil Class c.2005. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/swanenburg_charons_boat.jpgSwanenburg_Charon's_boatAeneas and the Sibyl in the underworld (c. 1625), National Museum in Gdańsk (Image via Wikimedia). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/reconstruction_of_nekyia_by_polygnotus.jpgReconstruction_of_Nekyia_by_PolygnotusAn 1892 reconstruction of the Nekyia at Delphi reported by Pausanias (Image via Wikimedia). 2018-04-17T11:49:59+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/04/09/before-maga-mithras-phrygian-caps-and-the-politics-of-headwear/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_6102.jpgIMG_6102https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_6105.jpgIMG_6105https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_6107.jpgIMG_6107https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_6088.jpgIMG_6088Polychromatic Mithras relief from the mithraeum in the Castra Peregrinorum in Rome (Baths of Diocletian, Rome). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_6089.jpgIMG_6089Polychromatic Mithras relief from the mithraeum in the Castra Peregrinorum in Rome (Baths of Diocletian, Rome). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_6090.jpgIMG_6090Polychromatic Mithras relief from the mithraeum in the Castra Peregrinorum in Rome (Baths of Diocletian, Rome). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_6091.jpgIMG_6091Polychromatic Mithras relief from the mithraeum in the Castra Peregrinorum in Rome (Baths of Diocletian, Rome). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_6092.jpgIMG_6092Polychromatic Mithras relief from the mithraeum in the Castra Peregrinorum in Rome (Baths of Diocletian, Rome). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_6093.jpgIMG_6093Polychromatic Mithras relief from the mithraeum in the Castra Peregrinorum in Rome (Baths of Diocletian, Rome). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/img_6094.jpgIMG_6094Polychromatic Mithras relief from the mithraeum in the Castra Peregrinorum in Rome (Baths of Diocletian, Rome). 2018-04-10T00:41:14+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/03/31/anno-domini-computational-analysis-antisemitism-and-the-early-christian-debate-over-easter/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/bodl_digby56_roll274-2_frame5.jpgbodl_Digby56_roll274.2_frame5A 12th century paschal hand calendar on parchment now at the Bodleian Library (MS. Digby 56). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/img_5929.jpgIMG_5929Cast of the possible statue of Hippolytus with paschal calendar from 222 CE (Vatican Museums, photo by the author).https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/img_5930.jpgIMG_5930Cast of the possible statue of Hippolytus with paschal calendar from 222 CE (Vatican Museums, photo by the author).https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/img_5931.jpgIMG_5931https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ravenna-calendar-_-graffito.jpgRavenna Calendar _ Graffito2018-03-31T15:39:25+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/03/21/how-can-libraries-and-digital-humanities-spaces-co-exist/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/fine-arts-libraries-03-1080x810.jpgfine-arts-libraries-03-1080x810 A petition on Change.org already has thousands of signatures from local, national, and international scholars and students hoping to save the Fine Arts Library, and the campus has been fully canvassed with posters and activists in the past few weeks.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/img_7406.jpgIMG_7406https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/img_74071.jpgIMG_7407https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/img_7408.jpgIMG_7408https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/unnamed.jpgunnamedhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/img_7392.jpgIMG_7392Caryatid Casts from the Carnegie Museum of Art. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/img_7401.jpgIMG_7401Casts from the Carnegie Museum of Art. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/img_7405.jpgIMG_7405A 3D Print from the new Copy + Paste makerspace within the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh, PA). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/img_7407.jpgIMG_74072018-03-21T19:51:34+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/09/10/hold-my-mead-a-bibliography-for-historians-hitting-back-at-white-supremacy/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/screen-shot-2017-09-10-at-9-28-24-am.pngScreen Shot 2017-09-10 at 9.28.24 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/screen-shot-2017-09-10-at-8-27-29-am.pngScreen Shot 2017-09-10 at 8.27.29 AM Bishop Petros with Saint Peter (AD 974–997 - 997CE) by Unknown and from Faras. Now at The National Museum in Warsaw2018-02-19T22:24:37+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/02/16/teaching-ancient-early-christian-and-medieval-history-in-the-era-of-metoo-a-short-bibliography/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/sarcophagus_with_the_abduction_of_persephone_by_hades_detail.jpgSarcophagus_with_the_Abduction_of_Persephone_by_Hades_(detail)Sarcophagus with the abduction of Persephone by Hades (3rd c. CE, Walters Art Museum, CC0). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/screen-shot-2018-02-16-at-5-13-40-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-02-16 at 5.13.40 AMCaption via the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli: "The fresco in the III Pompeian style, which dates to around 20-25 AD, was discovered in the oecus (banqueting-hall) of the House of Jason in Pompeii on July 7th , 1878" (Image via the MANN).https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/rape_hylas_massimo.jpgRape_Hylas_MassimoOpus sectile panel with the rape of Hylas by the Nymphs. Roman artwork, first half of the 4th century CE. From the basilica of Junius Bassus on the Esquiline Hill (Image via Wikimedia in the Public Domain). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/screen-shot-2018-02-16-at-4-46-47-am.pngScreen Shot 2018-02-16 at 4.46.47 AM"Susanna and the Elders," Domenico di Michelino (1460/1475), Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University (Google Arts and Culture). 2018-02-17T17:47:44+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/01/29/replacing-the-squeeze-teaching-classical-epigraphy-with-3d-models/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/screen-shot-2018-01-29-at-1-43-16-pm.pngScreen Shot 2018-01-29 at 1.43.16 PM2018-01-29T19:46:45+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2018/01/12/yes-women-do-study-military-history/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/unnamed.jpgunnamedhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/1600px-detail_of_mosaic_emblema_with_amazonomachy_scene_daphne_a_suburb_of_antioch-on-the-orontes_second_half_of_the_4th_century_ad_louvre_museum_22960900773.jpg1600px-Detail_of_mosaic_emblema_with_Amazonomachy_scene,_Daphne,_a_suburb_of_Antioch-on-the-Orontes,_second_half_of_the_4th_century_AD,_Louvre_Museum_(22960900773)Detail of mosaic emblema with Amazonomachy scene, Daphne, a suburb of Antioch-on-the-Orontes, second half of the 4th century AD, Louvre Museum (Photo by Carole Raddato under a CC-SA-2.0). 2018-03-23T04:51:30+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/12/23/eating-nocturnal-fruits-a-round-up-of-my-favorite-ancient-and-medieval-posts-of-2017/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/3823290233_5c6078d23a_b.jpg3823290233_5c6078d23a_bCaption via Carole Raddato: "Mosaic from the House of Poseidon and Amphitrite, Herculaneum: Poseidon (Roman Neptune), holding a trident, stands beside his queen Amphitrite. She holds a royal staff and rests her elbow on a plinth." (CC BY-SA 2.0)https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/maabar-1.jpgmaabar-1Manuscript of Marco Polo’s Travels, ca. 1410-12; artwork attributed to the Maître de la Mazarine. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, Français 2810, f. 80r. Image via YvonneSeale.org. 2017-12-23T15:31:03+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/10/24/purple-indigo-and-the-slave-labor-that-produced-expensive-dyes/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/feeser-book-716x1024.jpgFeeser-book-716x1024https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/figure-8-tut-indigo-1080x833.jpgFigure-8-Tut-Indigo-1080x833https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_2333.jpgIMG_23332017-10-25T18:45:23+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/10/20/mapping-racism-and-assessing-the-success-of-the-digital-humanities/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/picture5.pngPicture5https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/picture4.pngPicture4https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/picture3.pngPicture3https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/picture2.pngPicture2https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/picture1.pngPicture12017-10-20T22:10:58+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/10/08/were-pagan-temples-all-smashed-or-just-converted-into-christian-churches/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_2378.jpgIMG_2378https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_2379.jpgIMG_2379https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_2380.jpgIMG_2380https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_2388.jpgIMG_2388https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_2390.jpgIMG_2390https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_2404.jpgIMG_2404https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_2405.jpgIMG_2405https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_2411.jpgIMG_2411https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/img_2416.jpgIMG_2416https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/santa-maria-antiqua.jpgSanta Maria Antiqua2018-11-16T16:13:23+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/08/29/a-short-bibliography-for-the-study-of-eunuchs-marginality-gender-in-the-pre-modern-world/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/screen-shot-2017-08-29-at-7-10-15-am.pngScreen Shot 2017-08-29 at 7.10.15 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/export-2mwlrkh.jpgexport-2mwlrkhThe monk Sabas instructs the emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates. Bibliothèque National de France MS Coislin 79, f. 2bis-r (ca. 1078-1081).2021-07-28T21:10:32+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/08/29/history-is-not-a-plant-some-thoughts-on-high-school-and-undergraduate-ancient-history-curricula/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/history-is-not-a-plant-pic.jpegFeatured Image -- 96342017-08-29T15:59:04+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/08/16/the-history-of-torches-intimidation-symbols-of-violence/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/bundesarchiv_bild_102-02985a_berlin_fackelzug_zur_machtergreifung_hitlers.jpgBundesarchiv_Bild_102-02985A_Berlin_Fackelzug_zur_Machtergreifung_HitlersThe torchlight procession in honor of the new Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler moves through the Wilhelmstraße in Berlin on the evening of 30 January 1933.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/img_6094-1200x900.jpgIMG_6094-1200x900A 3rd c. CE relief depicting a Mithraic scene where a bull is being slaughtered shows a torch bearer providing light during the ritual. The relief with polychromy is now at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome.2017-10-17T08:20:39+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/07/06/digital-palmyra-resources-for-researching-the-ancient-city/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/19667832_10154646935238053_5223109269443288952_o.jpg19667832_10154646935238053_5223109269443288952_oPalmyrene bust from the Musée de Grenoble (Photo taken by David Meadows and used with permission). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/screen-shot-2017-07-06-at-9-22-16-am.pngScreen Shot 2017-07-06 at 9.22.16 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/screen-shot-2017-07-06-at-7-27-48-am.pngScreen Shot 2017-07-06 at 7.27.48 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_5980.jpgIMG_5980https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_5983.jpgIMG_5983https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_5982.jpgIMG_5982https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_5981.jpgIMG_5981https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/screen-shot-2017-07-06-at-6-39-39-am.pngScreen Shot 2017-07-06 at 6.39.39 AM2017-07-06T14:44:18+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/06/06/pass-the-dormice-breeding-selling-and-eating-honeyed-dormice-in-antiquity/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/31425fe55288d080ff320adf6bb1fedc.jpg31425fe55288d080ff320adf6bb1fedchttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-06-at-10-09-15-am-e1496761913843.pngScreen Shot 2017-06-06 at 10.09.15 AMKim Beerden, Table 1: Dormouse-jars, in "Roman dolia and the Fattening of Dormice," Classical World, Volume 105, Number 2 (Winter 2012): 227-235. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/slz02-01_dscn4443-642x394.jpgSLZ02-01_DSCN4443-642x394https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-06-at-8-53-41-am1.pngScreen Shot 2017-06-06 at 8.53.41 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/the_trustees_of_the_british_museum_01098077001.jpgThe_Trustees_of_the_British_Museum_01098077001Glirarium (dormouse jar)https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-06-at-8-49-46-am.pngScreen Shot 2017-06-06 at 8.49.46 AMA glirarium for fattening dormice exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum in Chiusi. (Wikimedia, CC-BY-SA 3.0, Marco Daniele). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/screen-shot-2017-06-06-at-8-53-41-am.pngScreen Shot 2017-06-06 at 8.53.41 AM2017-06-09T15:11:22+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/04/30/the-argument-made-by-the-absence-on-whiteness-polychromy-and-diversity-in-classics/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/screen-shot-2017-04-30-at-5-55-07-am.pngScreen Shot 2017-04-30 at 5.55.07 AMTenney Frank, "Race Mixture in the Roman Empire" The American Historical Review, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Jul., 1916): 689-708. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/1258973765557_0107bc0e.jpg1258973765557_0107bc0ehttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/paintingwestpediment-144422fa13c47f1db1d-1535da2d893211ec367.pngpaintingwestpediment-144422fa13c47f1db1d-1535DA2D893211EC367https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/c737597e8b37693e7c27c20aaef35160.jpgc737597e8b37693e7c27c20aaef35160A reconstruction of the polychromy of Archer from the Temple of Aphaia (ca. 485 BCE). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/e2ce24df90a39c24443879e29fbaee99.jpge2ce24df90a39c24443879e29fbaee99Archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann's reconstruction of the Alexander Sarcophagus. 2017-06-19T11:22:20+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/03/14/legitimizing-the-blog-on-reading-citing-archiving-blogposts/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/screen-shot-2017-03-14-at-7-34-38-am.pngScreen Shot 2017-03-14 at 7.34.38 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/screen-shot-2017-03-13-at-3-06-13-pm-1200x543.jpgScreen-Shot-2017-03-13-at-3.06.13-PM-1200x543https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/screen-shot-2017-03-13-at-8-25-12-am-1-1200x879.jpgScreen-Shot-2017-03-13-at-8.25.12-AM-1-1200x879Dear Prudence: Miniature of Prudence writing at her desk, with pupils, from the British Library's manuscript of Laurent d’Orleans’ La somme le roi, France (Paris) 2nd quarter of the 14th century, Royal MS 19 C II, f. 48v. Image is in the Public Domain.2017-03-14T20:47:12+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/02/19/the-widespread-and-persistent-myth-that-it-is-easier-to-multiply-and-divide-with-hindu-arabic-numerals-than-with-roman-ones/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/roman-numerals.jpgRoman NumeralsClose up of Roman numerals on weathered sundialhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/romanabacusrecon.jpgA reconstruction of a Roman hand abacus, made by the RGZ Museum in Mainz, 1977. The original is bronze and is held by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in Paris. This example is, confusingly, missing many counter beads. Source: Wikimedia Commonshttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/salaminische_tafel_salamis_tablet_nach_wilhelm_kubitschek_numismatische_zeitschrift_bd_31_wien_1899_p-_394_ff.jpgAn early photograph of the Salamis Tablet, 1899. The original is marble and is held by the National Museum of Epigraphy, in Athens. Source: Wikimedia Commonshttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/rechentisch.pngRechentisch/Counting board (engraving probably from Strasbourg) Source: Wikimedia Commonshttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/470px-babylonian_numerals-svg.pngBabylonian Numerals Source: Wikimedia Commons2017-02-22T19:19:45+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/02/20/modeling-the-tincu-house-a-new-3d-model-from-roman-gabii/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/gabii-cover.pnggabii-coverhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-20-at-8-26-49-am.pngscreen-shot-2017-02-20-at-8-26-49-amMap of Gabii, a city-state about 11 miles to the east of Rome. It was active in the first millenium BCE until the 3rd century CE (Image via the Pelagios Project's Peripleo map). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-18-at-8-16-28-am.pngscreen-shot-2017-02-18-at-8-16-28-amScreenshot of the new 3D interactive publication of the Tincu House, a house dating originally to the early third century BCE (Image used with permission from the Gabii Project and the University of Michigan Press under a CC-BY 4.0 International License).2017-02-20T21:14:17+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/02/08/open-accyes-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-just-gave-us-375000-more-reasons-to-celebrate-the-public-domain/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/screen-shot-2017-02-08-at-5-31-31-am.pngscreen-shot-2017-02-08-at-5-31-31-am2017-02-13T19:26:21+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/01/24/deleteacademiaedu-the-argument-for-non-profit-repositories/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/cyberman_by_jackademus.jpgcyberman_by_jackademushttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/screen-shot-2017-01-24-at-8-13-51-am.pngscreen-shot-2017-01-24-at-8-13-51-amhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/screen-shot-2017-01-20-at-8-37-31-am-1200x772.jpgscreen-shot-2017-01-20-at-8-37-31-am-1200x772https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/c24mtocveaajw9u.jpgc24mtocveaajw9uScreenshot from the North America section of OpenDOAR, a directory of Open Access Repositories. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/screen-shot-2017-01-24-at-7-31-08-am.pngscreen-shot-2017-01-24-at-7-31-08-amScreenshot of Academia.edu's Privacy Policy, which allows them to handle, modify, delete, and use our content in any way they would like. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/screenshot-2015-11-23-14-21-51.pngscreenshot-2015-11-23-14-21-51Discussion on Guy Geltner’s text, “On leaving Academia.edu,” started 23 November 2015. Source: Academia.edu. Image via his blog, Mittelalter. 2017-03-13T17:06:43+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2017/01/11/january-10-49-bce-revising-the-tale-of-caesars-crossing-of-the-rubicon/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/screen-shot-2017-01-09-at-7-01-24-pm-1200x736.jpgscreen-shot-2017-01-09-at-7-01-24-pm-1200x736Approximate location of the Rubicon river in northern Italy. Map provided by the Pelagios Project's Peripleo under a CC-BY-SA. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/screen-shot-2017-01-11-at-6-14-00-am.pngscreen-shot-2017-01-11-at-6-14-00-am2017-01-11T13:07:18+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/12/31/pie-zeses-toasting-to-a-new-year/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/screen-shot-2016-12-31-at-10-39-51-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-12-31-at-10-39-51-amhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/5b69742b532411176c3ce04b1d03b112.jpg5b69742b532411176c3ce04b1d03b112Late antique Roman mosaic with an asarotos oikos “unswept floor” now on display in Switzerland at the Chateau de Boudry. 2017-01-01T13:07:31+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/12/12/the-eagle-huntress-and-the-ancient-history-of-falconry/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6a013488b55a86970c01b8d16a5c19970c-1200x676.jpg6a013488b55a86970c01b8d16a5c19970c-1200x676"Detail of a bas-de-page scene of a lady observing her hawk bringing down a duck, Yates Thompson MS 13, f. 73v." Image and caption via the British Library Blog and is in the Public Domain. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/screen-shot-2016-12-12-at-6-47-55-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-12-12-at-6-47-55-am2016-12-12T18:51:17+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/12/02/numbering-the-stars-remembering-the-contributions-of-medieval-muslim-astronomers-and-catalogers/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/6a017ee66ba427970d01b8d0892894970c.png6a017ee66ba427970d01b8d0892894970cUrsa major (الدب الأكبر) as viewed on a celestial globe (upper) and as viewed in the sky (lower) (Or 5323, f.8v). Image via the British Library and is in the Public Domain. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/15181198_10104030019844748_76570874655340741_n.jpg15181198_10104030019844748_76570874655340741_nhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/screen-shot-2016-11-29-at-7-23-28-am-1200x612.jpgscreen-shot-2016-11-29-at-7-23-28-am-1200x6122016-12-02T22:54:11+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/11/24/roma-aeterna-open-access-resources-for-mapping-the-city-of-rome/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/screen-shot-2016-11-24-at-10-48-03-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-11-24-at-10-48-03-amhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/screen-shot-2016-11-24-at-10-25-43-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-11-24-at-10-25-43-amhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/screen-shot-2016-11-24-at-10-19-31-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-11-24-at-10-19-31-amhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/screen-shot-2016-11-24-at-10-02-17-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-11-24-at-10-02-17-amhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/project_dag.jpgproject_dagDetail of 1:6000 map of Augustan Rome. Map via the Mapping Augustan Rome Project at the University of Arizona. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/nolli_03.jpgnolli_03Section of Nolli's La nuova topografia di Roma Comasco https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/10090000.jpg10090000https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/screen-shot-2016-11-24-at-8-24-48-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-11-24-at-8-24-48-am2016-11-24T19:00:45+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/11/17/the-midas-touch-alchemy-in-the-medieval-and-early-modern-eras/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/screen-shot-2016-11-17-at-8-08-37-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-11-17-at-8-08-37-amhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img_3860.jpgimg_3860https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img_3859.jpgimg_3859https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img_3862.jpgimg_3862https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img_3861.jpgimg_3861https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img_3863.jpgimg_3863https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/img_3864.jpgimg_38642016-11-17T19:13:29+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/11/07/fictive-heroism-westworld-the-colosseum-and-the-history-of-elite-amusement-parks/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/screen-shot-2016-11-07-at-9-34-17-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-11-07-at-9-34-17-am2016-11-08T19:31:10+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/10/26/from-dissertation-to-book-a-few-things-i-learned-over-the-past-10-years/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/image001.pngimage001Image graciously given to me by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for the cover of the book. It is an image of two imperial-era Roman potters. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/screen-shot-2016-10-26-at-6-25-31-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-10-26-at-6-25-31-am2016-10-26T22:54:46+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/10/19/a-short-history-of-demons-exorcism-and-possessed-women/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/screen-shot-2016-10-19-at-7-01-45-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-10-19-at-7-01-45-amVia the British Library: Dante and Virgil observing Satan swallowing his victims, with figures of those who betrayed their benefactors, such as Brutus and Judas Iscariot, frozen in ice below, from Canto 34 of the Inferno. 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4.0)https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/an01058479_001_l.jpgan01058479_001_lhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/37-1647ea-e_view1_cropped.jpg37-1647ea-e_view1_croppedhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/screen-shot-2016-10-15-at-8-33-34-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-10-15-at-8-33-34-am2016-10-18T02:42:49+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/10/10/bind-his-hands-curse-tablets-and-charioteer-magic-in-ancient-sports/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/screen-shot-2016-10-10-at-1-50-52-pm.pngscreen-shot-2016-10-10-at-1-50-52-pm2016-10-10T19:02:37+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/09/28/ancient-and-medieval-censored-books-to-read-during-banned-book-week/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/screen-shot-2016-09-28-at-12-08-16-pm.pngscreen-shot-2016-09-28-at-12-08-16-pm2016-09-28T17:16:22+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/09/22/does-nycs-new-3d-printed-palmyra-arch-celebrate-syria-or-just-engage-in-digital-colonialism/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/screen-shot-2016-09-22-at-6-58-26-am.pngscreen-shot-2016-09-22-at-6-58-26-amhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_9503.jpgimg_9503https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_9505.jpgimg_9505https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_9507.jpgimg_9507https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_9509.jpgimg_9509https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_9510.jpgimg_9510https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_9514.jpgimg_9514https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_9516.jpgimg_9516https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_9517.jpgimg_9517https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/img_9519.jpgimg_95192016-09-22T17:50:08+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/09/12/september-12-490-bce-remembering-the-battle-of-marathon-on-the-2506th-anniversary/2017-05-21T09:18:57+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/09/09/tattoo-taboo-exploring-the-history-of-religious-ink-and-facial-tattoos/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/87382_0.jpg87382_02016-12-08T03:16:15+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/09/01/what-not-to-wear-a-short-history-of-regulating-female-dress-from-ancient-sparta-to-the-burkini/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/maxresdefault.jpgmaxresdefaulthttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/dp118070.jpgDP1180702016-09-01T14:29:10+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/08/24/august-24-79-an-hour-by-hour-account-of-vesuvius-eruption-on-its-1937th-anniversary/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/screen-shot-2016-08-24-at-10-36-39-am.pngScreen 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2016-05-15 at 8.30.26 AMThe beginning of a 12th c. edition of Ovid's Amores: 'Incipit Ovidi[us] sine titulo...' (Ovid begins without a title...' (Hs. 329 from the Die digitale Landesbibliothek Oberösterreich can be found HERE.)2016-11-06T22:08:43+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/05/02/monumental-mausolea-building-projects-and-slave-labor-from-antiquity-to-the-world-cup/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/clemsonmarkers.jpgClemsonmarkersNew markers were unveiled in April of 2016 noting the use of convict and slave labor at Clemson University. Image via Clemson University. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/1421175_10208706644565626_5233291670354931598_o.jpg1421175_10208706644565626_5233291670354931598_oThe new commemorative marker at Washington & Lee University outside Robinson Hall. The plaque remembers the enslaved African Americans owned by Washington College (later Washington & Lee University) during the antebellum period. They were a bequest of "Jockey" John Robinson, a college trustee. Photo by Prof. Ted Delaney, History Department, Washington and Lee University. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/sally_cottrell_000025921_0001.jpgSally_Cottrell_000025921_0001Photo from the University of Virginia Special Collections of Sally Cottrell Cole, who was free at the time this photo was taken, but was previously an enslaved worker. Image via UVA Magazine.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/cemetery_project_08hr_cg_stones_cropped.jpgCemetery_Project_08HR_CG_Stones_CROPPEDGrave markers from the recently discovered gravesite north of the University Cemetery. None of the markers showed names or inscriptions. Image attribution: Cole Geddy via UVA Magazine. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/7fa5d7c5-e09d-4c3e-a850-5ab310fd6294.jpeg7fa5d7c5-e09d-4c3e-a850-5ab310fd6294Workers repair a section of the Great Wall of China at the Banchangyu scenic spot, Qinhuangdao, Hebei Province on Photo via xinhuanet.com. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/domitian-cloaca-forum.jpgDomitian-Cloaca-Forumhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-30-at-6-39-12-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-30 at 6.39.12 PMA treadmill powered crane on the Haterii relief (late 1st c. CE). Rome, Vatican Museums. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/image-01-large.jpgimage-01-largePhoto of the excavation of the workers' camp at Giza. Photo credit: Mark Lehner. Image via PBS. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/o-qatar-sdeath-toll-5701.jpgo-QATAR-SDEATH-TOLL-5701https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/khalifa-stadium.jpgKhalifa-stadium2016-05-06T21:39:40+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/04/25/writing-revelation-game-of-thrones-greco-roman-oracles-and-the-epigraphy-of-divination/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-25-at-8-23-01-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-25 at 8.23.01 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-25-at-8-14-31-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-25 at 8.14.31 AMRomans 16:34 - Hebrews 1:7. P.Mich.inv. 6238 [known as P46]. You can explore the letters of Paul held at the University of Michigan library in a new iTunes App here. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/young-cersei-visits-witch-on-game-of-thrones-501-recap-images-2015.jpgyoung-cersei-visits-witch-on-game-of-thrones-501-recap-images-2015Cersei visits a witch on Game of Thrones. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/vergilius_31v_lg.jpgvergilius_31v_lgIllumination on vellum depicting rivalry of two bulls over a cow from Vergil’s Georgics. Vergilius Vaticanus (Biblioteca Apostolica, Cod. Vat. lat. 3225). 5th c. CE. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-25-at-6-53-44-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-25 at 6.53.44 AMLead tablet from the Sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona. In Corinthian Boustrophodon script. Hermon asks to which god he should pray to have useful children by his wife Kretaia. At the Ioannina Museum, Epirus, Greece, 6th century BC. Lead tablet from the Sanctuary of Zeus at Dodona. In Corinthian Boustrophodon script. Hermon asks to which god he should pray to have useful children by his wife Kretaia. At the Ioannina Museum, Epirus, Greece, 6th century BC.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-25-at-6-37-09-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-25 at 6.37.09 AMMemento Mori mosaic, convent of San Gregorio, Via Appia, Rome, Italy. Now in the National Museum, Rome, Italy. Image via Wikimedia.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-25-at-6-36-28-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-25 at 6.36.28 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2000px-map_greek_sanctuaries-en-svg.png2000px-Map_greek_sanctuaries-en.svghttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/an00942013_001_l.jpgAN00942013_001_lhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/poxy-v0016-n1926-b-01-hires.jpgPOxy.v0016.n1926.b.01.hiresReverse of P.Oxy XVI 1926. Image Via Oxyrhynchus Online. 2016-04-25T14:19:14+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/04/04/sacrificial-lambs-livestock-book-costs-and-the-premodern-parchment-trade/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-03-at-8-00-31-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-03 at 8.00.31 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/plate_25_8_1.jpegplate_25_8_1"Parchment Maker." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Alexis Hagadorn. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, . Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. . Trans. of "Parcheminier," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 8 (plates). Paris, 1771.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/f8bc3863b8fa0698760a9422e4dd11f1.jpgf8bc3863b8fa0698760a9422e4dd11f1Milking sheep illumination in the Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340. British Library, Additional MS 42130, Folio 163v. Sheep. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/img4489.jpgimg4489British Library, Additional MS 42130, Folio 163v. Sheep. Luttrell Psalter, England ca. 1325-1340.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-03-at-5-50-17-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-03 at 5.50.17 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-03-at-5-29-02-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-03 at 5.29.02 PM A 15th c. parchment copy of Virgil's Aeneid now at the Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Beinecke MS 1125. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/parchment-fragment-19.jpgParchment Fragment 19https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/screen-shot-2016-04-03-at-6-42-11-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-04-03 at 6.42.11 AMPage from the 6th century CE Codex Argenteus, in silver and gold ink on purple. Image via Wikimedia. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/pic05.jpgpic05Copenhagen, Royal Library. Ms. 4, 2o f. 183v. After Christopher De Hamel, Medieval Craftsmen. Scribes and Illuminators (London: British Museum Press, 1992), pic. 8, p. 13.2021-02-01T05:16:44+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/03/25/g-i-jones-classical-archaeology-military-balloons-and-early-aerial-photography/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ostia1.jpgOSTIA1Aerial photo of Ostia taken via Google Earth. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-25-at-3-17-50-pm1.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-25 at 3.17.50 PMFig. 1, p.12. TALBERT, R.. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World: the Cartographic Fundamentals in Retrospect. Cartographic Perspectives, North America, 0, sep. 2003. Available at: . Date accessed: 25 Mar. 2016.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-25-at-3-17-50-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-25 at 3.17.50 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-25-at-2-58-38-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-25 at 2.58.38 PMLieutenant Philip Henry Sharpe "Stonehenge as seen from a War Balloon" Photograph: 1906 (taken) 1907 (published). The Society of Antiquaries Magazine. Photo via Luminous-Lint. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/34457.jpg34457Early Aerial Photograph of Stonehenge by Central Aerophoto Co., Ltd., courtesy National Geographic. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3b04739r.jpg3b04739rProf. Thaddeus Lowe making a balloon ascension on a recon expedition to Vienna, Va.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/list-civil-war-weapons-balloons-e.jpeglist-civil-war-weapons-balloons-Ehttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-25-at-2-24-48-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-25 at 2.24.48 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-24-at-9-13-31-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-24 at 9.13.31 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-25-at-2-04-23-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-25 at 2.04.23 PMAerial plan of ruins in the Roman Forum. 2017-06-20T09:23:17+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/03/19/martius-madness-on-manliness-roman-gambling-laws-and-ncaa-brackets/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-19-at-9-14-52-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-19 at 9.14.52 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/an00137963_001_l.jpgAN00137963_001_lBronze dice in the form of a squatting figure (1st-2nd c. CE, Roman. Image via the British Museum. 1975,1103.1)https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/an01201154_001_l.jpgAN01201154_001_l Closeup of a bronze dice in the form of a squatting figure. Photo via the British Museum. Museum number 1975,1103.1 https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-19-at-8-02-45-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-19 at 8.02.45 AMAttic Black Figure Dinos fragment showing the crowd at the Funeral Games of Patrocluss, Sophilos, 580-570 B.C. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, 15499. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/i.jpgiPresident Barack Obama fills out his NCAA bracket in the Map Room at the White House. Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-18-at-6-25-27-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-18 at 6.25.27 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/img_0672.jpgIMG_0672Game-board from Roman Philippi. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/img_0677.jpgIMG_0677Game-board from Roman Philippi. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/img_0673.jpgIMG_0673Game--board from Roman Philippi and the classic archaeologist foot selfie (Photo by Sarah E. Bond)https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/4118995990_b7574f9104_b.jpg4118995990_b7574f9104_b2016-03-23T23:34:48+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/03/04/times-new-roman-classical-inscriptions-epigraphy-hunters-and-renaissance-fonts/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-04-at-1-55-49-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-04 at 1.55.49 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/ar_splash.pngar_splashAthena Ruby Inscription Font. Dumbarton Oaks' OpenType font for Byzantine inscriptions. Available HERE. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-04-at-1-24-11-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-04 at 1.24.11 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cyr-merbaka1.jpgCYR-MerbakaCarvings at the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin, in Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. Trotti 373, f. 115r. Image via Nauplion.net. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cyr-merbaka.jpgCYR-Merbakahttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-04-at-1-17-43-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-04 at 1.17.43 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-04-at-11-20-59-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-04 at 11.20.59 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-04-at-11-12-31-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-04 at 11.12.31 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/screen-shot-2016-03-04-at-10-50-44-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-03-04 at 10.50.44 AMPoggio Bracciolini's, Collectio in scriptorium veterum (ca. 1430). From SLU Libraries summary: "Originally owned by Poggio Bracciolini (1380-1459); autograph manuscript. On fol. 29r, a line drawing by Poggio of an ancient Roman monument with an inscription." https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/papyrus.jpegPapyrus2016-03-08T00:18:09+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/02/14/libellus-behavior-papyri-valentines-and-3d-printing/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-14-at-7-41-41-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-14 at 7.41.41 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-14-at-7-40-52-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-14 at 7.40.52 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-14-at-7-35-38-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-14 at 7.35.38 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-14-at-7-30-57-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-14 at 7.30.57 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-14-at-7-06-43-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-14 at 7.06.43 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/recogito-map-bordeaux-parts.pngrecogito-map-bordeaux-partshttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-14-at-5-47-40-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-14 at 5.47.40 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/native1.jpgnativehttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/native.jpgnativehttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/libellus_bond_p-luther-4.jpgLibellus_Bond_P.Luther 42016-02-18T18:26:50+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/02/07/hail-caesar-a-classicists-movie-review/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-06-at-10-27-40-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-06 at 10.27.40 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-06-at-10-05-01-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-06 at 10.05.01 PMThe 'Ecce Homo' moment of the Passion of Christ, as depicted by Andrea Mantegna, 1500. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/giphy-facebook_s.jpggiphy-facebook_sTilda Swinton plays both Thora and Thessaly in the film, twin gossip columnists ostensibly based off of notorious 1930s gossip columnist Hedda Hopper, but also very reminiscent of the goddess Pheme and Fama--the original gossip columnists.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/i-am-spartacus.jpgI-am-Spartacushttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-06-at-9-03-29-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-06 at 9.03.29 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-06-at-8-49-45-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-06 at 8.49.45 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/big-dan.jpgbig danhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cittacc8018-1.jpgcittà18-1https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/cdn-indiewire-psdops.jpgcdn.indiewire.psdopsGeorge Clooney takes it easy on a lawn chair after being kidnapped in 'Hail, Caesar!' (Photo via Indiewire)2016-02-23T20:26:18+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/02/04/using-graphic-language-a-short-history-of-figure-poems/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/k020962.jpgK020962https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-04-at-1-11-27-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-04 at 1.11.27 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tumblr_mn1kobqp8n1soj7s4o4_1280.jpgtumblr_mn1kobQp8N1soj7s4o4_1280https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/raban.jpegrabanhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tumblr_nb7zabbb0q1rtynt1o10_1280.pngtumblr_nb7zabBb0Q1rtynt1o10_1280https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/czlpwguugaajgrb.pngCZLPWGUUgAAjGrbhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-04-at-10-48-46-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-04 at 10.48.46 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-04-at-10-41-07-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-04 at 10.41.07 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-04-at-10-00-48-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-04 at 10.00.48 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/screen-shot-2016-02-04-at-9-50-38-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-02-04 at 9.50.38 AM2016-02-04T21:24:24+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/01/28/encouraging-the-phdivas-my-top-5-posts-for-dorothy-king/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/blogging1.pngblogginghttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/blogging.pngblogginghttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-28-at-5-40-48-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-01-28 at 5.40.48 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-28-at-5-19-29-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-01-28 at 5.19.29 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-28-at-4-56-05-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-01-28 at 4.56.05 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2013-09-12-at-5-57-54-pm.pngScreen Shot 2013-09-12 at 5.57.54 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-28-at-4-32-26-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-01-28 at 4.32.26 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-25-at-6-54-40-am.pngScreen Shot 2016-01-25 at 6.54.40 AM2016-01-28T12:16:51+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2015/09/25/good-mourning-roman-clothing-courtrooms-and-the-psychology-of-color/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/winona-ryder-court.jpgWinona Ryder Found Guilty of Felony Grand Theft ChargesWinona Ryder listens to the verdict is read at the Beverly Hills Municipal Court during her shoplifting trial. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cfa03cdd99.jpgcfa03cdd99Giotto's (c. 1304) Christ before Caiaphas - at the Cappella Scrovegni in Padua, Italy. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/screen-shot-2015-09-25-at-5-02-11-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-09-25 at 5.02.11 AMCersei wears a mourning gown to the trial of her brother, Tyrion, on Game of Thrones, Scarlett O'Hara dances in mourning clothes in Gone with the Wind, and a 3rd c. fresco from the Hypogeum of the Aurelii in Rome shows Roman senators in their togas. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/dsc_0787-onethirdsize.jpgJesus Before the SanhedrinJesus Before the Sanhedrin (Church of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/relieffuneral.jpgRelief of a Roman funeral procession. From Amiternum, 1st century CE. 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Picture via Glammonitor. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/vibia_sabina_villa_adriana_01.jpgVibia_Sabina_(Villa_Adriana)_01https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1937-158-221-obv-width350.jpg1937.158.221.obv.width350Coin struck in 55 BCE and issued by then-aedile Gnaeus Plancius, an accused rapist (Image via the ANS).https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/screen-shot-2015-08-27-at-11-53-31-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-08-27 at 11.53.31 AMDetail of the Roman fresco from the bedroom (Cubiculum 43) in the Casa del Centenario . https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/screen-shot-2015-08-24-at-10-12-16-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-08-24 at 10.12.16 AM2016-01-15T18:04:37+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2016/01/04/power-of-the-palindrome-writing-reading-and-wordplay-part-ii/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-03-at-6-39-22-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-01-03 at 6.39.22 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/20110908_p1080767_amuleto_museo_conimbriga-1.jpg20110908_P1080767_Amuleto_Museo_Conimbriga-1A Roman era Sator Square from Conimbriga in Portugal (Image via Wikimedia). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/cxzwi0sueaankzz.pngCXzWI0SUEAANkzZThe medieval Trotula also has a Sator Square. Para. 98 from Vatican, BAV, Pal. lat. 1304, f. 42r. Picture via Monica Green (With my profuse thanks!). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/screen-shot-2016-01-03-at-5-22-20-pm.pngScreen Shot 2016-01-03 at 5.22.20 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ancient-amulet-with-59-letter-palindrome.jpgAncient-Amulet-With-59-Letter-PalindromeA late antique amulet from Cyprus found last year. It has a 59 letter palindrome. Photo by Marcin Iwan, artifact from the excavations of Jagiellonian University in Krakow. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/ag-obj-5755-001-pub-med.jpg1933.298, 005755The Sator Square from Dura Europos (c. 165-256 CE) is now at the Yale University Art Gallery. Photo is in the Public Domain. 2016-01-06T21:39:20+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2015/12/08/reformingthemap/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-2-30-39-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-12-08 at 2.30.39 PMA text gets digitized at the Newberry Library. See more on their digitization efforts Here.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-2-19-22-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-12-08 at 2.19.22 PMI am currently working on mapping the book of Acts. See some of my work at Mapbox. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/genevabible.jpgGenevaBibleMap of the Holy Land from the Geneva Bible of 1560. Photo via Wikimedia.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-1-49-39-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-12-08 at 1.49.39 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-12-44-55-pm1.pngScreen Shot 2015-12-08 at 12.44.55 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-12-44-55-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-12-08 at 12.44.55 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/img_1265.jpgIMG_1265https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/img_1269.jpgIMG_1269https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-12-05-22-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-12-08 at 12.05.22 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/screen-shot-2015-12-08-at-11-16-38-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-12-08 at 11.16.38 AM2015-12-17T22:52:36+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2015/10/15/the-fall-of-the-roman-umpire-a-short-history-of-ancient-referees/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/screen-shot-2015-10-15-at-10-46-59-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-15 at 10.46.59 AMRoman mosaic, found on the Via Appia (4th c. CE) and now in the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid. Image taken by Ann Raia and posted by Barbara McManus. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/screen-shot-2015-10-15-at-10-57-54-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-15 at 10.57.54 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/gladiator-tombstone.jpggladiator-tombstoneEpitpaph for Diodorus, a gladiator, who blamed a referee. Credit: © Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels. (Photo and article via LiveScience). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/screen-shot-2015-10-14-at-4-01-19-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-14 at 4.01.19 PMA gladiatorial referee stands between a murmillo and hoplomachus in the Zliten mosaic (2nd c. CE, Leptis Magna) [Image via Wikimedia] https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/screen-shot-2015-10-14-at-3-37-42-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-14 at 3.37.42 PMAn inscribed lead tablet found in 1958 and published by Jordan & Spawforth (1982: 65 in an open-access ASCSA publication). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/screen-shot-2015-10-14-at-3-19-21-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-14 at 3.19.21 PMAn Attic panathenaic prize amphora (c. 500 BCE) depicting an umpire watching the pankration, which was a combo of wrestling, boxing, and kicking (Picture via Wikimedia, but vase is at the Met NYC). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/screen-shot-2015-10-14-at-2-23-17-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-14 at 2.23.17 PMFormer Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox holds the record for most ejections from a baseball game: 158 (+3 in postseason). Here he does his thing (Photo via Photobucket).https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/screen-shot-2015-10-12-at-6-19-32-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-12 at 6.19.32 AMMosaic depicting a gladiatorial fight. (Pic from the House of the Gladiators, Kourion, Cyprus). 2015-10-15T16:31:26+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2015/10/04/getting-sacked-animals-bestial-humiliation-and-roman-law/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/5564138558_b63a1ce16e_o.jpg5564138558_b63a1ce16e_oIllustration entitled 'Trial of a Sow and Pigs at Lavegny' taken from The Book of Days (1863) edited by Robert Chambers (Image and caption via the Public Domain Review). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/medieval-animal-trials-650x467.pngmedieval-animal-trials-650x467A pig is placed on trial in 1949https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/screen-shot-2015-10-04-at-3-25-26-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-04 at 3.25.26 PMMosaic with a striped cat capturing a bird from Rome's Palazzo Massimi alle Terme (Image via Wikimedia). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/screen-shot-2015-10-04-at-3-01-12-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-04 at 3.01.12 PMA detail of the leather soldier bags from the Column of Trajan casts now at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (Image via Wikimedia). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/screen-shot-2015-10-04-at-2-24-47-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-04 at 2.24.47 PMBronze Roman war elephant now at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen in Munich (SL 50 1 via Wikimedia). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/screen-shot-2015-10-04-at-1-51-01-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-04 at 1.51.01 PM(l) A 3rd c. CE mosaic in the Museum of El Djem (Tunisia) of a criminal being killed in the arena (r) James Bond fights while a Komodo dragon lurks nearby in Skyfall. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/screen-shot-2015-10-03-at-8-00-08-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-03 at 8.00.08 AMRoman mosaics of a dog (Sousse), a rooster (now at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome), a rock python (Palestrina Nilotic mosaic, Museo Nazionale Palestrina), and a monkey (Volubilis, House of Orpheus) [Images via Wikimedia].https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/screen-shot-2015-10-03-at-7-55-29-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-10-03 at 7.55.29 AMRoman mosaics of a dog (Sousse), a rooster (now at the Baths of Diocletian in Rome), a rock python (Palestrina Nilotic mosaic, Museo Nazionale Palestrina), and a monkey (Volubilis, House of Orpheus) [Images via Wikimedia]. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/live-and-let-die-body.jpglive-and-let-die-bodyImage via PopcornAddict2015-10-15T20:49:43+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2015/07/21/the-evil-eyes-have-it-welcoming-and-warning-ancient-visitors/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-07-21-at-10-04-43-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-07-21 at 10.04.43 AMMosaic from Kefalonia (3rd c. CE) depicting Phthonos (the envious), and an inscription "which mentions the character of those who suffer envy, unable to endure the prosperity of others, and its disastrous consequences" Image from: http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2014/12/images-in-roman-mosaics-meant-to-dispel.html#.Va5flBNVgvQhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-07-21-at-8-55-18-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-07-21 at 8.55.18 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/4691668139_f4ef6e439a.jpgSomething's watching...To Ward-off the Evil Eyehttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/votive_tablet_serapis_met_21-88-172.jpgVotive_tablet_Serapis_Met_21.88.172Greek votive inscription to Serapis from a 2nd c. CE tabula ansata (Wikimedia). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-07-21-at-7-41-16-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-07-21 at 7.41.16 AMThe 'Have' mosaic from Pompeii juxtaposed with a welcome mat that both welcomes guests and communicates a certain Southern identity. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/screen-shot-2015-07-21-at-7-12-35-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-07-21 at 7.12.35 AM"Invidia rumpuntur aves neque noctua curat." The birds are destroyed by (their) jealoust, but the owl does not care. Floor mosaic from Thrysdus (c. late 3rd c. CE)https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/e-49-1901.jpgE.49.19011st c. CE put up in honor of Nero. Note the inscription and the symmetrical dogs on either side as apotropaic protections. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/1069op1634.jpg1069OP1634https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/5105670024_aa06ccb4b7_z.jpg5105670024_aa06ccb4b7_zMosaic from the House of the Evil Eye, Antioch, Syria. 2019-06-20T12:59:33+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2015/06/05/unlocking-the-dark-ages-a-short-history-of-chastity-belts/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/83b7045dcbacd50cda308f518991d9a5.jpg83b7045dcbacd50cda308f518991d9a5The chastity belt depicted in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/12548903654_a11876764b_b.jpg12548903654_a11876764b_bhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/chastity-belts_000016.jpgchastity-belts_000016A chastity belt displayed in the Musée de Cluny in Paris. The postcards are now in the Harvard Archives. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/h2_17-193-161.jpgh2_17.193.161Belt Buckle, Buckle Counter Plate, and Back Plate (675–725 CE Frankish); Found in Niederbreisig, western Germany. Caption pulled from Met Museum site, where the buckle can be seen.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/konrad_kyeser_bellifortis_clm_30150_tafel_15_blatt_82v.jpgKonrad_Kyeser,_Bellifortis,_Clm_30150,_Tafel_15,_Blatt_82vA sketch of a chastity belt in a 15th century manuscript of "Bellifortis". It was a book on military technology by Kyeser von Eichstadt. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/delliannona-sarcophagus_1726_big.jpgdelliannona-sarcophagus_1726_bigDepiction of an elite marriage scene with personifications to the left (Portus, Annona) and the right (the Senate, Abundantia, Africa) wearing the stola and Herculean knot of brides. (Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Museo Nazionale Romano)https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/kwn1762gedzvcmtvhdrb.jpgkwn1762gedzvcmtvhdrbAn intense chastity belt on one of the wives in the new Mad Max film. 2015-06-05T13:59:32+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2015/05/28/pleiades-in-the-classroom-a-mapping-webinar/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/screen-shot-2015-05-24-at-5-53-05-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-05-24 at 5.53.05 AM2015-05-28T09:07:24+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2015/05/19/mapping-the-digital-humanities-at-the-university-of-iowa/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/screen-shot-2015-05-19-at-1-09-16-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-05-19 at 1.09.16 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/screen-shot-2015-05-19-at-1-07-33-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-05-19 at 1.07.33 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/screen-shot-2015-05-19-at-1-06-36-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-05-19 at 1.06.36 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/screen-shot-2015-05-19-at-1-05-15-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-05-19 at 1.05.15 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/screen-shot-2015-05-19-at-2-11-48-am.pngScreen Shot 2015-05-19 at 2.11.48 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/screen-shot-2015-05-19-at-12-52-45-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-05-19 at 12.52.45 PM2015-05-26T17:47:05+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2015/03/30/let-the-snorter-be-covered-in-soot-ancient-board-game-inscriptions/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/screen-shot-2015-03-29-at-9-50-02-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-03-29 at 9.50.02 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/vettweiss-froitzheim_dice_tower.jpgVettweiss-Froitzheim_Dice_Towerhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/89_b_03.jpg89_B_03Late antique game board from Aphrodisias dedicated by Flavius Photius. Photo via Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/88_f_30.jpg88_F_30https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/tumblr_lntvb6zwnu1qh236bo1_1280.jpgtumblr_lntvb6ZWNu1qh236bo1_1280Inscription on the board at Timgad. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/akg469717.jpgAKG469717A 3rd c. CE mosaic of men playing on a tabula (El Djem, Tunisia). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/screen-shot-2015-03-29-at-8-14-10-pm.pngScreen Shot 2015-03-29 at 8.14.10 PM2015-03-31T15:57:38+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2015/02/15/either-urine-or-youre-out-epigraphy-and-graveyard-etiquette/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ph0005467.jpgPH0005467CIL VI, 2357 (Rome, now at the Vatican). © Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum – BBAWhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/izmiragora-1.jpgIzmirAgora-12nd-4th c. graffito from the agora at Izmir showing two gladiators and a young boy urinating on the street. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cil_04_08899.jpg$CIL_04_08899Picture via the Clauss / Slaby Epigraphic Datenbank 2015-02-15T23:49:40+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2014/12/15/drawing-lines-torture-in-roman-law-on-phdiva/2014-12-15T20:28:18+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2014/12/01/the-hand-of-god-depicting-legitimacy-in-late-antiquity/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2014-11-30-at-6-30-05-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-11-30 at 6.30.05 AMPaintings from the Ezekiel Cycle in the mid 3rd c. CE Synagogue at Dura Europos. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1977-158-968-obv-width350.jpg1977.158.968.obv.width350Gold Solidus depicting the Hand of God and AConstantinople, AD 395 - AD 404. 1977.158.968https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2014-11-30-at-5-48-39-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-11-30 at 5.48.39 AMAuferstehung und Himmelfahrt Christi, Inv.-Nr. MA 157, Foto Nr. D27841, Now at the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich (c. 400 CE). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2014-11-30-at-5-39-49-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-11-30 at 5.39.49 AMGemma Augustea (1st c. CE). Augustus is shown seated in the guise of Jupiter while Oikoumene (personification of the inhabitable world) crowns him. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2014-11-30-at-5-33-26-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-11-30 at 5.33.26 AMA Frankish king (center), like Charlemagne, depicted in the Sacramentary of Charles the Bald (c. 870 CE).2014-12-01T10:03:28+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2014/11/21/facebook-before-facebook-tagging-in-antiquity/2014-11-21T13:01:56+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2014/10/26/third-eye-blind-the-cyclops-in-late-antiquity/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/affreschi_romani_-_polifemo_galatea_-_pompei.jpgAffreschi_romani_-_polifemo_galatea_-_pompeiPolyphemus receives a love-letter from Galatea, a 1st-century AD fresco from Pompeii. Via Wikimedia Commons. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/b0y76qnccaactpy.pngB0y76QNCcAACTPyCyclopes forging a thunderbolt for Iuppiter, from Book VIII of the Aeneid (Thugga, Baths of the Cyclopes, 4th c. CE). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/screen-shot-2014-10-26-at-9-13-41-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-10-26 at 9.13.41 AMA 4th c. depiction of Polyphemus from the Villa del Casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/b0z_bqkccaab-s7.jpgB0z_BQKCcAAB-s7The Cyclops from https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2218.jpg2218Head of Polyphemus. It is dated to the 4th c. CE and comes from the amphitheater at Salona. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/screen-shot-2014-10-26-at-8-32-05-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-10-26 at 8.32.05 AMMosaic of Polyphemus and Galateia from Cordoba via Wikimedia Commons. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/114_1-1.jpg114_1-1The Bankes Papyrus (British Museum Papyrus 114 [2nd c. CE]), columns 1-3. Via the Homer Multitext Project. (P. Lond. Lit. 28).https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/114_1.jpgThe Bankes Papyrus (British Museum Papyrus 114 [2nd c. CE]), columns 1-3. Via the Homer Multitext Project. The Bankes Homer (P. Lond. Lit. 28)2017-01-16T17:31:20+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2014/10/06/follow-me-courtesan-sandals-shoemakers-and-ephemeral-epigraphic-landscapes/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/screen-shot-2014-10-06-at-6-50-37-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-10-06 at 6.50.37 AMClement of Alexandria, Paedagogus, 2.11 (PG 537-538. Thanks to Roger Pearse as always for posting the PG Volumes). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/screen-shot-2014-10-05-at-9-21-41-pm.pngScreen Shot 2014-10-05 at 9.21.41 PMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/shoemaker.jpgshoemakerRelief of Septimia Stratonice, a shoemaker, from Ostia. Picture via Ann Raia. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hobnail-print-closeup.jpghobnail-print-closeupRoman hobnail footprint from the Museum of London. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/screen-shot-2014-10-05-at-9-33-04-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-10-05 at 9.33.04 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/roman-ipad.jpgRGM, HolztŠfelchenWaxen tablet Picture via Tom Standage, from the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/viminacium_moneybox_mus_pozarevac.jpgviminacium_moneybox_mus_pozarevacPožarevac, Museum of Viminacium2014-10-06T11:56:56+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2014/07/26/the-stables-of-the-vestal-virgins-tax-immunity-and-roman-signage/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dp20615.jpgDP20615Bronze Plaque of the Vestal Virgin Flavia Publicia from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Photo Via the Met. View it Here). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screen-shot-2014-07-26-at-8-39-56-pm.pngScreen Shot 2014-07-26 at 8.39.56 PMEntry for Calpurnia Praetextata in CIL XV. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/img_3622.jpgIMG_3622Bronze Plaque of Flavia Publicia (Photo Taken by Sarah E. Bond at the Vatican Museums). 2014-10-06T11:14:09+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2014/09/08/whats-in-a-name-visual-puns-and-epigraphy/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cil_04_09131.jpg$CIL_04_09131CIL IV, 9131 = CLE 1936. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bw-xa7rcmaawuav.jpgBw-Xa7rCMAAWuavInscription now in the Baths of Diocletian. Odd video here. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/catacombe-dsc_0635.jpgCatacombe DSC_0635Fresco from the catacomb of Priscilla. Photo Credit: David Macchi. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/screen-shot-2014-09-07-at-10-07-01-pm.pngScreen Shot 2014-09-07 at 10.07.01 PMDrawing in Maitland 1848, 226. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bw-h5ohcuaapuds.pngBw-H5OHCUAApUDSDrawing from Maitland 1847, 226. Download the free ebook here. 2014-09-08T12:54:36+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2014/07/08/roman-gold-glass-and-the-epigraphy-of-toasting-in-antiquity/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screen-shot-2014-07-09-at-8-15-32-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-07-09 at 8.15.32 AMhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screen-shot-2014-07-08-at-10-05-03-am-e1404832031822.pngScreen Shot 2014-07-08 at 10.05.03 AMFourth century roundel from Bologna. Photo Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/69716881@N02/10873947723/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/5356_600.jpg5356_600https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/sf18-145-5s1b.jpgsf18-145-5s1bBowl Base with the Portrait of a Young Man (300-500 CE). Photo: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (18.145.5). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dss622a.jpgdss622aPhoto © The Israel Museum, by Dr. Jean-Luc Pilon, Canadian Museum of Civilization Gold glass base with Jewish symbols. (300-399 CE). Photo: Israel Museum Collection, Jerusalem. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screen-shot-2014-07-08-at-9-13-48-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-07-08 at 9.13.48 AMGlass engraving of the Puteoli harbor (National Museum, Prague). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/khm_wien_zwischengoldglas_ehepaar_xia_35-e1404831631536.jpgA Roman gold glass roundel of a married couple (300-399 CE) from Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum. Photo via Wikimedia. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/roman_glass_beaker_from_second_half_of_the_4th_century_found_in_cologne_staatliche_antikensammlungen_munich_8957503119.jpgA diatret (cage cup) found Cologne, Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich (350-399 CE). Photo via Wikimedia.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screen-shot-2014-07-08-at-8-11-39-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-07-08 at 8.11.39 AMGlass roundel (300-399 CE) with shepherd and flock from the Corning Museum of Glass. 2014-07-09T13:18:01+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2014/06/28/the-popular-gaze-roman-underwear-nudity-and-visual-display/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/roman-bikini.jpgroman bikiniLeather briefs from Roman London. There are side fasteners to assure a good fit. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/640px-relieftafel_40_mc3a4rtyrer_von_sebaste_bodemuseum.jpg640px-Relieftafel_40_Märtyrer_von_Sebaste_BodemuseumIvory relief of the story of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, who were soldiers forced to stand naked on a frozen pond in 320 CE. Constantinople, 10th century AD. Museum für Byzantinische Kunst (Inv. no. 574; acquired in 1828; Bartoldi collection), Bode-Museum, Berlin.https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-28-at-8-29-21-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-06-28 at 8.29.21 AMRelief on the Tomb of Eurysaces the Baker, Rome. (c. 30 BCE). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1024px-retiarius_vs_secutor_from_borghese_mosaic.jpg1024px-Retiarius_vs_secutor_from_Borghese_mosaicMosaic from the Villa Borghese outside Rome (4th c. CE). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/912753858.jpg912753858Another mosaic from the Villa Romana del Casale outside Piazza Armerina. The women wear strophia and subligar. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/roman-art-sicily-villa-casale-erotic-scene.jpgroman-art-sicily-villa-casale-erotic-sceneMosaic from a bedroom at the Villa Romana del Casale, outside Piazza Armerina, Sicily. 2014-06-28T15:54:35+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2014/06/17/monograms-and-inscribed-power/https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-17-at-8-38-44-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-06-17 at 8.38.44 AMMonogrammed capitals of Justinian from Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1886-11-1-rev-width350.jpg1886.11.1.rev.width350Bronze hummus of Constantine I (327-328 CE) with Chi-Rho monogram. Photo via the American Numismatic Society. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cistern.jpgcisternhttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2008-1-7-rev-width350.jpg2008.1.7.rev.width350https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/apsis_mosaic_s_prassede_rome_w6.jpgApsis_mosaic_S_Prassede_Rome_W6Mosaic from Santa Prassede with the monograms of Pope Paschal I (817-824 CE). Note that the far monogram is above Christ's head (!). https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1944-100-75671-rev-width350.jpg1944.100.75671.rev.width350Reverse of a Ptolemaic (310-285 BCE) silver tetradrachm from Alexandria with monogram. Photo via the American Numismatic Society. https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hagia-sophia.jpgHagia Sophiahttps://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/578px-byzantine_-_signet_ring_-_walters_572104_-_view_a-1.jpgByzantine Signet RingA 6th century monogrammed signet ring from the Walters Art Museum reading "Of Mark"https://sarahemilybond.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/d3049631r.jpgQuarter-Siliqua of Theodoric with Monogram"Theodoric (491-526), R Quarter-siliqua in name of Justin I, Rome, diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev. monogram of Theodoric within wreath (MIB 49), almost extremely fine" -Christie's2014-06-24T00:20:25+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.com/2014/05/16/cfp-shifting-frontiers-in-late-antiquity-xi/2014-05-16T09:33:30+00:00monthlyhttps://sarahemilybond.comdaily1.02025-11-14T00:28:29+00:00